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Earth Sciences

Natural Resources and the New Frontier Constructing Modern China's Borderlands

Kinzley Judd C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226492292, ISBN: HB: 9780226492155, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 8 tables

China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes...

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Fiction

Women Studies

Centrepiece Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India

Singh Parismita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932410, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, June 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, colour illus. throughout

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...

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Jewish Studies

Black Power, Jewish Politics Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s

Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781512602579, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Marc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power–inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how, in a period best known fo...

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Christianity

Public Health

Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...

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Islam

Anthropology

Knot of the Soul Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam

Pandolfo Stefania

ISBN: PB: 9780226465081, ISBN: HB: 9780226464923, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, reflecting on the unconscious maladies of the so...

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Political Science

Reclaiming Accountability Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution

Kitrosser Heidi

ISBN: PB: 9780226565675, ISBN: HB: 9780226191638, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, esp...

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General

Down, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

Stuart Forrest

ISBN: PB: 9780226566207, ISBN: HB: 9780226370811, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over...

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Europe

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Ira Jaroslav, Janac Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024635903, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Future Remains A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

Mitman Gregg, Armiero Marco, Emmett Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226508795, ISBN: HB: 9780226508658, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 9 halftones

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene – the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects...

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Fiction

Pied Piper

Dyk Viktor

ISBN: PB: 9788024634401, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
125 pp., 19x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For "The Pied Piper", Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for hi...

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