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Jewish Studies

Don Isaac Abravanel An Intellectual Biography

Cohen-Skalli Cedric

ISBN: HB: 9781684580231, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourag...

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Literary Criticism

Leavetakings Essays

Cook Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781602234246, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not onl...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries

Coquard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...

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Philosophy

Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226719436, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs....

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Linguistics

Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs

Cermak Frantisek

ISBN: PB: 9788024643588, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2020
243 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on...

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Literary Criticism

Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226729299, ISBN: HB: 9780226729152, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts betwee...

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Chemistry

Rainbow Palate How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food

Cobbold Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226727059, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 tables

We live in a world saturated by chemicals – our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform...

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Ecology

Climate in Motion Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226398822, ISBN: PB: 9780226752334, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 45 halftones

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary".Climate in Motion" shows that this multiscalar, multicausa...

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History

Scientific Journal Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

Csiszar Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226752501, ISBN: HB: 9780226553238, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of ac...

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Political Science

Limits of Party Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

Curry James M., Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226716350, ISBN: HB: 9780226716213, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 line drawings, 15 tables

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced...

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