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Synthesizing Hope Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery

Pollock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780226629186, ISBN: HB: 9780226629049, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Synthesizing Hope" opens up the material and social world of pharmaceuticals by focusing on an unexpected place: iThemba Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2009 with a name taken from the Zulu word for hope, the small South African startup with an elite in...

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Philosophy

How We Became Our Data A Genealogy of the Informational Person

Koopman Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226626581, ISBN: HB: 9780226626444, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who...

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History of Art

Illuminated Paris Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: HB: 9780226593869, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 75 colour plates, 32 halftones

The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...

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Europe

Political Science

Limits of Transnationalism

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Europe

Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

Lugli Emanuele

ISBN: HB: 9780226612492, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
312 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 16 colour plates, 40 halftones

Measurement is all around us – from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures o...

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Architecture

Making the Most of Tomorrow A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism

Spurny Matej

ISBN: PB: 9788024640174, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2019
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expecta...

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History

Materials of the Mind Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

Poskett James

ISBN: HB: 9780226626758, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe".Materials of the Mind" tells the story of how phrenology changed the wo...

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Linguistics

Tokens of Meaning Papers in Honor of Lauri Karttunen

Condoravdi Cleo, Holloway King Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9781684000487, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, May 2019
599 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the fo...

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Music

Nightingales in Berlin Searching for the Perfect Sound

Rothenberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226467184, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

A celebrated figure in myth, song, and story, the nightingale has captivated the imagination for millennia, its complex song evoking a prism of human emotions – from melancholy to joy, from the fear of death to the immortality of art. But have you ev...

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Political Science

Conservative Innovators How States Are Challenging Federal Power

Merriman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780226620312, ISBN: HB: 9780226620282, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 8 tables

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal on state cooperation, and not all state officials h...

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