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Europe

What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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Poetry

Senses of Style Poetry before Interpretation

Dolven Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780226517117, ISBN: HB: 9780226517087, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing

Style is everywhere, but it evades criticism – especially now, when an age of interpretation asks us to look right through it. And yet style does so much tacit work, telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What place does it have among...

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General

Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands

Ourednicek Martin, Jichova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...

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Poetry

Well at Morning Selected Poems, 1925-1971

Reynek Bohuslav

ISBN: HB: 9788024634258, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
90 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 25 colour plates, 5 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Springtide" A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The c...

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Philosophy

Poetic Justice Rereading Plato's "Republic"

Frank Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780226515779, ISBN: HB: 9780226515632, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs...

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Buddhism

Prisoners of Shangri-La Tibetan Buddhism and the West

Lopez Jr. Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226485485, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, "Prisoners of Shangri-La" pr...

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History

Osiris, Volume 32 Data Histories

Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine, Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226538778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Power of Material / Politics of Materiality

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349878, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 155 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 halftones

Materiality has emerged as a new focus for art, design, and architecture. Where there was once the belief that the form of a work offered more capacity to bestow meaning, "New Materialism" asserts the agency of material within the artistic process, e...

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Buddhism

Hyecho's Journey The World of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226517902, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 1 halftone

In the year 721, a young Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out from the kingdom of Silla, on the Korean peninsula, on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in history. Sailing first to China, Hyecho continued to what is today Vietnam,...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Present of the Future

Witzgall Susanne, Stakemeier Kerstin

ISBN: PB: 9783037349861, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2018
230 pp., 21.6x16 cm, 81 colour plates, 16 halftones

As the world teeters on the brink of crisis and potentially catastrophic change, outlooks for the future have come to be characterized by anxiety. The skepticism that meets utopian visions of the future has given rise to collective nostalgia for seem...

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