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Biography & Memoires

Pasolini Requiem Second Edition

Schwartz Barth David

ISBN: PB: 9780226335025, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
656 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post-World War II era. An astonishing polymath – poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director – he exerted profound i...

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Business & Economics

Politics of Value Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

Collins Jane L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446141, ISBN: HB: 9780226446004, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

Points of Convergence Alternative Views on Performance

Dziewanska Marta, Lepecki Andre

ISBN: PB: 9788364177385, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2017
240 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 40 colour plates, 20 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown...

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Ecology

Politics of Scale A History of Rangeland Science

Sayre Nathan F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226083254, ISBN: HB: 9780226083117, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production –...

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Cartography

Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

Hornsby Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386041, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates

Instructive, amusing, colorful – pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More rece...

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Mammals

Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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Photography

Photography, Trace, and Trauma

Iversen Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones

Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...

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Literary Criticism

Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Europe

Travel

Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Education

Perspectives from the Disciplines Stanford Online High School

Scarborough Jeffrey, Ravaglia Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781575867403, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this companion volume to "Bricks and Mortar", Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the onlin...

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