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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

Gallope Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...

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Literary Criticism

Stendhal Fiction and the Themes of Freedom

Brombert Victor

ISBN: PB: 9780226519357, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors – Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels "The Red and the...

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Literary Criticism

Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

Eden Kathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226526645, ISBN: HB: 9780226184623, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
180 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancien...

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Europe

Law

Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia

Kuklik Jan, Petras Rene

ISBN: PB: 9788024635835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Across the whole of modern Czech history – from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years – ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, Czechoslova...

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Anthropology

Ways of Baloma Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands

Mosko Mark S.

ISBN: PB: 9780997367560, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2017
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procr...

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Philosophy

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226500256, ISBN: HB: 9780226500119, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory v...

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America

Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis

Doyle Amanda E., Adams Melanie A.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones

The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...

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Education

Agile Faculty Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching

Pope-Ruark Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780226463155, ISBN: HB: 9780226463018, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 13 line drawings, 21 tables

Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techni...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Seal Named Patches

Beltran Roxanne, Robinson Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9781602233317, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour plates

Scientists Roxanne Beltran and Patrick Robinson set off on a polar adventure, traveling to Antarctica to study the lives of Weddell seals. By finding Patches, a wily seal they've been tracking since its birth, they'll be able to learn a lot about ho...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Dark Matter of the Mind The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

Everett Daniel L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526782, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables

Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things beca...

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