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Contemporary Art

Distant Early Warning Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde

Kitnick Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226753454, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) is best known as a media theorist – many consider him the founder of media studies – but he was an important theorist of art, too. A near-household name for decades, McLuhan remains a fascinating and even cultish figure i...

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General

Philosophy

Model Cases On Canonical Research Objects and Sites

Krause Monika

ISBN: PB: 9780226780832, ISBN: HB: 9780226780665, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables

We all know scientists study a predictable set of organisms when performing research, whether they be mice, fruit flies, or less commonly known but widely used species of snail or worm. But when we think of the so-called humanistic social sciences, w...

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Political Science

Dynamic Partisanship How and Why Voter Loyalties Change

Kollman Ken, Jackson John E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226762364, ISBN: HB: 9780226762227, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 line drawings, 28 tables

Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mostly stable voter identification with a party, are normally considered significant signals of a steady d...

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Fiction

Luminaries

Keane Kristin

ISBN: PB: 9781632430939, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
40 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Agnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her, her husband doesn't understand her, and lately, she's begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick awakens her back to life, an impulse for stealing em...

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Education

General

Segregation by Experience Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades

Keys Adair Jennifer, Sanchez-Suzuki Colegrove Kiyomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226765617, ISBN: HB: 9780226765587, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 tables

Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities. Some teachers engage with their students' ideas in ways that make learning co...

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Mammals

Animals' Best Friends Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226601489, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives – the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day by whales and cows, octopus and mice, even bees – we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their li...

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Literary Criticism

Sea Life

Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

King Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones

Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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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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Philosophy

Navigating Normative Orders Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Kettemann Matthias C.

ISBN: PB: 9783593512983, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Normative orders emerge and pollinate everywhere. Whether it be with Kant or among conservatives, posts on the internet, in environmental discourses, or in our raising of our children: Norms populate and spread. This book explains how norms are creat...

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Travel

Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes

Kizzia Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602234307, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 map

A series of journeys to Alaska's remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely conte...

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