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History

Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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America

God's Businessmen Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War

Hammond Sarah Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226509778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II....

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America

Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

Rosenfeld Sam

ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...

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Philosophy

Gestation of German Biology Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling

Zammito John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520797, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural...

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Political Science

Legacies of Losing in American Politics

Tulis Jeffrey K., Mellow Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9780226515328, ISBN: HB: 9780226515298, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also...

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Europe

Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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Poetry

Fort Necessity

Gewanter David

ISBN: PB: 9780226533766, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer – ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work. Haunted by his father's autopsy of a...

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Philosophy

Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics

Makkreel Rudolf A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527765, ISBN: HB: 9780226249315, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book provides an innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. Rudolf A. Makkreel proposes an orientational and reflective conception of interpretation...

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Anthropology

Owners of Kinship Asymmetrical Relations in Indigenous Amazonia

Costa Luiz

ISBN: PB: 9780997367591, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings

"The Owners of Kinship" investigates how kinship in Indigenous Amazonia is derived from the asymmetrical relation between an "owner" and his or her dependents. Through a comprehensive ethnography of the Kanamari, Luiz Costa shows how this relationshi...

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Anthropology

Fire of the Jaguar

Turner Terence S.

ISBN: PB: 9780997367546, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
305 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Not since Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited as this book, Terence S. Turner's The Fire of the Jaguar. His reanalysis of the famous myth from the K...

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