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Contemporary Art

Still Life Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum

Dominguez Rubio Fernando

ISBN: PB: 9780226714080, ISBN: HB: 9780226713922, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 4 line drawings

How do you keep the cracks in "Starry Night" from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal – or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 27

Mungan Murat C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226709857, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Philosophy

Seeing Silence

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226693521, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table

"To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the restlessness that makes creative life possible and the inescapability of death acceptable". So writes Mark C. Taylor in his latest book, a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age...

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Poetry

Set in Stone

Carey Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781933880792, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Set in Stone", Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremonies. Carey writes poetry for the everyperson, poetry that deals with memory, loss, and nostalgia in an accessible and honest way. These poems tell stori...

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Physiology

Science of Walking Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mayer Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780226328355, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

"The Science of Walking" recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance and yet essential to our hum...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Sherabad Oasis Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan

Stanco Ladislav, Tuslova Petra

ISBN: PB: 9788024639024, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2020
495 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Sherabad Oasis: Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan" is the second volume of the series examining the Czech-Uzbek archaeological expedition in southern Uzbekistan. While t...

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Ecology

Surroundings A History of Environments and Environmentalisms

Benson Etienne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706290, ISBN: HB: 9780226706153, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it's easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in Surroundings, we learn that the environmental past is mu...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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Culture Studies

Streets of Europe The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

Ladd Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780226677941, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 4 maps

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, a...

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Philosophy

Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in Xenophon's "Economist", "Symposium", and "Apology"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226642475, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The oeuvre of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose works stand with those of Plato as essential accounts of the teachings of Socrates, has seen a new surge of attention after decades in the shadows. And no one has done more in recent years to spearhea...

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