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Evolution

Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

Richards Evelleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226436906, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because i...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Death Be Not Proud The Art of Holy Attention

Marno David

ISBN: HB: 9780226415970, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next".Death Be Not Proud" explores the precedent...

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Anthropology

General

Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South India

Nakassis Constantine V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327853, ISBN: HB: 9780226327716, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 1 table

In "Doing Style", Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call "style" anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Ta...

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Contemporary Art

Dianna Frid + Richard Rezac Split Complementary

Girson Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780985096021, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
76 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 56 colour plates

Dianna Frid's sculptures, installations, artist's books, and mixed media work explore the intersection of text and textile, matter and subject matter. Richard Rezac has created thought-provoking abstract object-sculptures since the 1980s. This book,...

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America

Demolition Means Progress Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Highsmith Andrew R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419558, ISBN: HB: 9780226050058, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
398 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 17 maps, 3 tables

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress", suggesting that the struggling city could no...

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Photography

Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Mitman Gregg, Wilder Kelley

ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...

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Political Science

Law

Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society

Benveniste Emile

ISBN: PB: 9780986132599, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire – here in a new translation as the "Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society" – has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocu...

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Anthropology

Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

Stewart Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226425245, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 halftones

On publication in 2012, "Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece" quickly met wide acclaim as a gripping work that, according to the Times Literary Supplement, "offers a wholly new way of thinking about dreams in their social contexts"...

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Law

Dignity of Commerce Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law

Oman Nathan B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226415529, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transacti...

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