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Political Science

Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind

Jacobson Gary C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226589343, ISBN: HB: 9780226589206, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 line drawings, 54 tables

How is Donald Trump's presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party? Profoundly, according to Gary C. Jacobson. From Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, every postwar president has powerfully shaped Americans' f...

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History of Art

Dewey for Artists

Jacob Mary Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226580449, ISBN: HB: 9780226580302, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 24 halftones

John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributions came in his thinking about art. Dewey argued that there is strong social value to be found in art, a...

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Literary Criticism

Christianity

Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226572178, ISBN: HB: 9780226572031, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the hi...

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Jewish Studies

Pennies for Heaven The History of American Synagogues and Money

Judson Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781512602753, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the annals of American Jewish history, synagogue financial records have been largely overlooked. But as Daniel Judson shows in his examination of synagogue ledgers from 1728 to the present, these records provide an array of new insights into the d...

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Political Science

General

Emotions of Protest

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables

In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...

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Philosophy

Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226538945, ISBN: HB: 9780226538808, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn't be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world – and any sc...

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Christianity

Political Science

Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State

Johnson Paul Christopher, Klassen Pamela E., Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...

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Reference

Biography & Memoires

Behind the Book Eleven Authors on Their Path to Publication

Jones Chris Mackenzie

ISBN: PB: 9780226405803, ISBN: HB: 9780226405773, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two books follow quite the same path, but all are shaped by a similar array of market forces and writing cr...

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Anthropology

Magic's Reason An Anthropology of Analogy

Jones Graham M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226518688, ISBN: HB: 9780226518541, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 25 halftones

In "Magic's Reason", Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two areas are not as separate as they may at first seem. As Jones shows, the endeavors not only matured around the same time, but they also s...

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Literary Criticism

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve

Johnson Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226527451, ISBN: HB: 9780226015842, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
264 pp., 23x15 cm

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft and meaning. In "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ag...

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