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Women Studies

"The God of Love's Letter" and "The Tale of the Rose" A Bilingual Edition. With Jean Gerson, "A Poem on Man and Woman," Translated from the Latin by Thomas O'Donnell

de Pizan Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781649590060, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, July 2021
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Christine de Pizan was born in Italy and moved to the French court of Charles V when she was four years old. She led a life of learning, stimulated by her reading and by her drive to engage with the cultural and political issues of her day. As a youn...

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Women Studies

Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2

David Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9781940939995, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, June 2021
877 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

This continuation of Gabrielle David's odyssey into the lives and careers of 150 brilliant black women from the eighteenth century to the present brings together biographies of women who blazed uncharted paths alongside powerful photographs that illu...

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Women Studies

America

Trailblazers American Firsts / American Icons, Volume 1: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great

David Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9781940939797, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2021
877 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The past four hundred years have seen unprecedented growth in virtually every conceivable realm of life, from medicine to the arts, technology to finance. Far too often, however, when we think of the movers, shakers, and innovators behind these trans...

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Literary Criticism

Four Shakespearean Period Pieces

de Grazia Margreta

ISBN: PB: 9780226785226, ISBN: HB: 9780226785196, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anach...

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Public Health

Big Med Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

Dranove David, Burns Lawton Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226668079, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures, 3 tables

There is little debate that healthcare in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlo...

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Anthropology

Fake Anthropological Keywords

da Col Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9780997367577, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2021
120 pp., 17.7x10 cm, 6 halftones

Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, frauds, knock-offs – such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. Do all cultures equally spend an incredible amount of energy and labor on detecting differe...

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General

Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic

Danielsen Finn

ISBN: PB: 9781602234284, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2021
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 tables

Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, n...

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History

New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III

Davis Matthew Evan, Wilder Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781649590169, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, February 2021
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 16 halftones, 90 figures, 8 tables, 8 graphs

These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth o...

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Poetry

Wonderama Poems

Doty Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9781933880822, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that capture 1960s Paterson, New Jersey, as experienced by the poorest, most vulnerable children living there. With candor, ferocity, and stunning imagery, Catherine Dot...

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Literary Criticism

Chastity Plot

During Lisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226741468, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Chastity Plot", Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been...

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