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Literary Criticism

Literary Life of Things Case Studies in American Fiction

Barbel Tischleder Babette

ISBN: PB: 9783593500065, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2014
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 colour plates

Material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Contemplating the aesthetic and nar...

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Dogs

Last Walk Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226151007, ISBN: HB: 9780226668468, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 23x15 cm

From the moment when we first open our homes – and our hearts – to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and...

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Drinks

Cultural Studies

Land and Wine The French Terroir

Frankel Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226014692, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones

For centuries, France has long been the world's greatest wine-producing country. Its wines are the global gold standard, prized by collectors, and its winemaking regions each offer unique tasting experiences, from the spice of Bordeaux to the berry n...

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Cartography

London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689

Batchelor Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226080659, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trade...

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Philosophy

Limits of History

Fasolt Constantin

ISBN: PB: 9780226101248, ISBN: HB: 9780226239101, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
347 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no...

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History

Life Out of Sequence A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics

Stevens Hallam

ISBN: PB: 9780226080208, ISBN: HB: 9780226080178, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings

Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a room...

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Music

Language of Its Own Sense and Meaning in the Making of Western Art Music

Katz Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226425979, ISBN: HB: 9780226425962, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings

The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuous – and enormously influential – dialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, "A Language of Its O...

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Evolution

Long and the Short of It The Science of Life Span and Aging

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226757896, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans – and that variation is nothing compared to what's found in other animal an...

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Nature

Life of a Leaf

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226104775, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 47 colour plates, 18 halftones, 10 line illus.

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In "The Life of a Leaf", Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate ph...

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History of Art

Liberation of Painting Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Leighten Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780226471389, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 99 halftones, 32 colour illus.

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their...

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