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Subversive Copy Editor Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Second Edition)

Fisher Saller Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780226240077, ISBN: HB: 9780226239903, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Longtime manuscript editor and "Chicago Manual of Style" guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides s...

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Ancient World

Variety The Life of a Roman Concept

Fitzgerald William

ISBN: HB: 9780226299495, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature an...

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Political Science

History

Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)

Franzmann Andreas, Munte Peter, Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...

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America

Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery

Ferring Shepley Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781883982867, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, January 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 40 halftones

The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. The book is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, which feature biographies of individuals. Besides...

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Asia

Literary Criticism

For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature

Field Norma, Bowen-Struyk Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226068374, ISBN: HB: 9780226068367, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imagination...

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Philosophy

About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Foucault Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226188546, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship be...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Archives of the Insensible Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory

Feldman Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226277332, ISBN: HB: 9780226277165, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to...

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Literary Criticism

Limits of Critique

Felski Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226294032, ISBN: HB: 9780226293981, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of i...

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History of Art

Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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Fiction

Cabin, Clearing, Forest

Falcon Zach

ISBN: PB: 9781602232754, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"People break my heart. Every single one of them does". In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of "Cabin, Clearing, Forest" are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In "Blu...

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