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Literary Criticism

Five Words Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes

Greene Roland

ISBN: PB: 9780226709710, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over t...

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Poetry

Raghead

Hassan Eman

ISBN: PB: 9781936970636, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, January 2020
80 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

Deftly making use of historically specific events, "Raghead" examines the Gulf War, relaying untold narratives of occupation and warfare, as well as addressing the violence the war inflicted on the female body and on the land itself. In these poems,...

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Anthropology

Real Economy Essays in Ethnographic Theory

Neiburg Federico, Guyer Jane I.

ISBN: PB: 9781912808267, University of Chicago Press, HAU, January 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies a...

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Ecology

Coast of Scenic Wonders Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661858, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2020
229 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 166 colour plates, 25 halftones

This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal l...

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Film Studies

Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema

Ian Christie

ISBN: PB: 9780226105635, ISBN: HB: 9780226105628, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 1 table

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers. But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only cru...

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Poetry

Saint Friend

Adamshick Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780887486432, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
72 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm

These are the people we are. Saint Friend, carry me when I am tired and carry yourself. Let's keep singing the songs we don't live by let's meet tomorrow. "Saint Friend" is a book of empathy. Its ten lyric poems are troubled with the prospect of sat...

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Anthropology

Signs of the Americas A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu

Garcia Edgar

ISBN: PB: 9780226659022, ISBN: HB: 9780226658971, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in "Signs of the Americas". Rather than be...

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Business & Economics

Law

Slices and Lumps Division and Aggregation in Law and Life

Fennell Lee Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780226650265, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings

How things are divided up or pieced together matters. Half a bridge is of no use at all. Conversely, many things would do more good if they could be divided up differently: Perhaps you would prefer a job that involves a third less work and a third le...

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Jewish Studies

Small Door Set in Concrete One Woman's Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine

Hammerman Ilana

ISBN: HB: 9780226666310, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"I was taught from the start not to be silent". For years, renowned activist and scholar Ilana Hammerman has given the world remarkable translations of Kafka. With "A Small Door Set in Concrete", she turns to the actual surreal existence that is life...

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Computer Science & Internet

Knuth par Knuth

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781684000586, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
226 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The interviews in this volume form the nearest thing possible to an autobiography of eminent computer scientist Donald E. Knuth. Based on the English-language Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth, also published by CSLI Publications, this book bri...

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