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Poetry

Poetry in a Global Age

Ramazani Jahan

ISBN: PB: 9780226730141, ISBN: HB: 9780226730004, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table

Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-nati...

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Christianity

Privilege of Being Banal Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris

Oliphant Elayne

ISBN: PB: 9780226731261, ISBN: HB: 9780226731124, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage". In a creative inve...

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Philosophy

Pragmatism's Evolution Organism and Environment in American Philosophy

Pearce Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226719917, ISBN: HB: 9780226719887, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and ev...

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Political Science

Probable Justice Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State

Friedman Rachel Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226730936, ISBN: HB: 9780226730769, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same t...

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Law

Patents for Power Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology

Farley Robert M., Isaacs Davida H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226716527, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law – and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright – has never been greater. But as Robert M. Farley and D...

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Political Science

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Howell William G., Moe Terry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...

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Contemporary Art

Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image

Barber Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones

Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...

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America

Province of Affliction Illness and the Making of Early New England

Mutschler Ben

ISBN: HB: 9780226714424, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics...

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Literary Criticism

Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays

Sergi Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226709376, ISBN: HB: 9780226709239, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables

Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyan...

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Mammals

Phyllostomid Bats A Unique Mammalian Radiation

Fleming Theodore H., Davalos Liliana M., Mello Marco A. R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696126, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
512 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 9 colour plates, 46 halftones

With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Phyllostomidae bat family (American leaf-nosed bats) is one of the world's most diverse mammalian families...

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