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Philosophy

Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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Education

Nature

Teaching Children Science Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

Kohlstedt Sally Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226449906, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the fir...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow

Dwork Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226511863, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
280 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 124 colour illus.

"With simple means, without any 'title', this book should in distant times always be in your memory". An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienst...

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Contemporary Art

Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings

Eckmann Sabine, Malone Meredith

ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates

Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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General

Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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Contemporary Art

Transience Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century

Hung Wu

ISBN: PB: 9780226360713, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
216 pp., 27.9x19 cm, 72 colour plates, 46 halftones

In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" established a historical framework for current artistic production in China. Organized by the Davi...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network

Elizabeth Losos, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493466, ISBN: HB: 9780226493459, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
688 pp., 23x15 cm, 170 tables, 4 halftones, 130 line illus.

Long-term Forest Dynamics Plots (FDPs) allow ecologists to explain patterns in diversity and dynamics in tropical forests around the world. In this collection, Elizabeth Losos and Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. assemble extensive standardized data – collecte...

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History of Art

Toward a Geography of Art

Kaufmann Thomas DaCosta

ISBN: PB: 9780226133126, University of Chicago Press, March 2004
504 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 91 halftones

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" o...

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Photography

Taken by Design Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971

Travis David, Siegel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226811673, University of Chicago Press, May 2002
272 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 20 colour plates, 250 halftones

One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of i...

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