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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Vice Patrol Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall

Lvovsky Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780226769783, ISBN: HB: 9780226769646, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and cl...

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Philosophy

Vindicatio Aristotelis Two Works in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century

ISBN: HB: 9780866986311, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
992 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 line drawing

The Greek philosopher George of Trebizond started the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Renaissance with two works published in Rome in the late 1450s. The first was his Protectio Aristotelis Problematum (The Protection of Aristotle's Problemata), w...

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Media Studies

Political Science

Violent Peace Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations

Biltoft Carolyn N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226766423, ISBN: HB: 9780226766393, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world – from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements – by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritab...

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Business & Economics

Varieties of Family Business Germany and the United States, Past and Present

Berghoff Hartmut, Kohler Ingo

ISBN: PB: 9783593512464, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 60 halftones, 30 tables, 20 figures

The idea of a business owned by a family and passed down from generation to generation sits firmly in our cultural imagination. And family businesses are of central importance in both Germany and in the United States. Still, there are significant dif...

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Jewish Studies

Vendulka Flight to Freedom

Kundra Ondrej

ISBN: PB: 9788024646534, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! So many lives were cut short by the Holocaust, many with no trace to leave behind for future generations to remember. Vendulka tells the story of a single scrap of remembrance – a candid p...

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Christianity

Vida y muerte de San Cristobal by Juan de Benavides

Grubbs Anthony J.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986298, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, December 2020
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

As the patron of travelers, Saint Christopher inspired one of the most popular cults in the medieval era, which spread across Europe and especially the Iberian Peninsula. Artistic renderings of the saint were found near the doors of most Spanish Goth...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Vanished Giants The Lost World of the Ice Age

Stuart Anthony J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226432847, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the stone age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth. These ani...

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Birds

Vulture The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

Fallon Katie

ISBN: PB: 9781684580330, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known a...

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Philosophy

Value, Conflict, and Order Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Hall Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780226718316, ISBN: HB: 9780226718286, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, dr...

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Poetry

Voice Message

Barrett Swett Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781938769528, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Through the poems of "Voice Message", Katherine Barrett Swett reflects on her personal tragedy and the fragility of human lives and bodies with a tender care. Her debut collection explores the powers of art and poetry to participate in the processing...

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