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Education

Versions of Academic Freedom From Professionalism to Revolution

Fish Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780226064314, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
192 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full atten...

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Law

Valuing Life Humanizing the Regulatory State

Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226780177, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables

The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States's regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we can hu...

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Literary Criticism

Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

Seale David

ISBN: PB: 9780226181745, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
270 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this study, David Seale argues that Sophocles's use of stagecraft, which has thus far received little attention, was as sophisticated as that of Aeschylus or Euripides. His discussions of the physical and visual elements of Sophocles's seven plays...

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Philosophy

Virtue Is Knowledge The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy

Smith Pangle Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780226136547, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one vi...

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History

Victorian Scientific Naturalism Community, Identity, Continuity

Lightman Bernard, Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226109503, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table

"Victorian Scientific Naturalism" examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of "The Origin of Species", wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professi...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Van Gogh on Demand China and the Readymade

Won Yin Wong Winnie

ISBN: PB: 9780226024899, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones

In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million pa...

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Cultural Studies

Gardening

Vegetables A Biography

Bloch-Dano Evelyne E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226059952, ISBN: HB: 9780226059945, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
128 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmer's markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens – and especially to vegetables. Whether it's an heir...

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General

Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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Nature

History of Art

Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Europe

Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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