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Anthropology

How Lifeworlds Work Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being

Jackson Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226491967, ISBN: HB: 9780226491820, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In "How Lifeworlds Work", J...

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Philosophy

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226500256, ISBN: HB: 9780226500119, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory v...

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Political Science

General

Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Law

Search for Justice The Sri Lanka Papers

Jayawardena Kumari, Pinto-Jayawardena Kishali

ISBN: HB: 9789385932069, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm

At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In "The Search for Justice", a collection of writers an...

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Literary Criticism

Sweet Science Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life

Jo Goldstein Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226484709, ISBN: HB: 9780226458441, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In "Sweet Science", Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Roma...

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Reference

Write No Matter What Advice for Academics

Jensen Joli

ISBN: PB: 9780226461700, ISBN: HB: 9780226461670, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book – or even steady journal articles – may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it rea...

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Europe

Travel

Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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Philosophy

History

Myth of Disenchantment Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Josephson-Storm Jason A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226403366, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 figures

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...

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America

Ties That Bound Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Jenkins Schwartz Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226147550, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Moun...

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Philosophy

Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict

Johnston David, Urbinati Nadia, Vergara Camila

ISBN: HB: 9780226429304, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote "The Prince", his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars continue to investigate interpretations of "The Prin...

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