University of Chicago Press Books: New booksThe latest scholarly and general books from the University of Chicago Press.Politics of Urban Beauty- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Michele H. Bogart Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the citys aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commissions domain has expanded dramatically to include everything from parks and courthouses to trash cans and sidewalks. In The Politics of Urban Beauty, Michele H. Bogart argues that this unprecedented authority has made the commission host to some complex...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=176166 Romanesque Architectural Sculpture- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Meyer Schapiro Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. And, appropriately, when he was invited to deliver the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, he chose Romanesque architectural sculpture as his topic. These lectures, acclaimed for the verve and freshness with which Schapiro delivered them,...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=204542 Salmon- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Peter Coates Every year, wild salmon travel hundreds of miles upstream. They fight fierce river currents, leap over rocks and small waterfalls, and die by the thousands of starvation, disease, and exposure to cold. Even if they surmount these obstacles, the fish risk becoming dinner for hungry predators like bears, birds, and humans. Guided by a keen sense of smell, the survivors travel to their original hatching grounds, where they breed, spawn, and quickly die.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=211231 Talking to Strangers- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Danielle S. Allen "Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=16389 Time, Creation and the Continuum- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Richard Sorabji Richard Sorabji here takes time as his central theme, exploring fundamental questions about its nature: Is it real or an aspect of consciousness Did it begin along with the universe Can anything escape from it Does it come in atomic chunks In addressing these and myriad other issues, Sorabji engages in an illuminating discussion of early thought about time, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Islamic, Christian, and Jewish medieval thinkers. Sorabji argues that the thought of...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=210719 To See Great Wonders- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Roger Fortin Founded in 1831 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Xavier University is one of the oldest Catholic Jesuit universities in the United States. In anticipation of the universitys 175th anniversary, historian Roger Fortin has written an in-depth history of it. To See Great Wonders is also anastute addition to our understanding of Jesuit higher education and its place in American history. Fortin explores the challenges the university community faced from its early years to the present day, as it...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=211383 Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Enik Baga Thisbook examines local attempts at sustainabledevelopment inpost-socialist Eastern Europe. Enik Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling of an authoritarian regime and Romanias admittance to the European Union in 2007. As Baga illustrates, such shifts provide powerful opportunities for local communities, as they learn to use their own economic, social, and cultural resources to.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=212629 Transnational Professionals and their Cosmopolitan Universes- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Magdalena Nowicka with a foreword by Ulrich Beck This book focuses on the relationship between physicalspace and social mobility, focusing onthe new phenomenon of theinternational professional who makes the world his home. Mobile people, Magdalena Nowicka reveals, create their own spatial and cultural universes through daily routines and practices. Even the choice of a specific residence, Nowicka shows, has definite local and global consequences. Grounded in the influential theories of Ulrich...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=212643 Travelling Facts- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Caroline Baillie, Elizabeth Dunn, and Yi Zheng Travelling Facts explores the production and distribution of facts : their life cycles as well as the material networks through which they travel. Acknowledging that facts are fallible and originate primarily in isolated laboratories and field sites, the volume includes discussions about how facts are reassembled into practical knowledge, how they translate locally, and what lessons may be learned from those who attempt to regulate fact...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=193939 Unfamiliar Journeys- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Alan McKernan In Unfamiliar Journeys, photographer Alan McKernan takes us on a strange and beautiful excursion through his hometown, the ancient and ever-changing city of Liverpool. McKernan has spent the past ten years documenting the citys evolution, and these photographs reflect both the grandeur and decay of this modern urban landscape.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=212999 |