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Gender Studies

Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom

Bernstein Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...

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Poetry

Near/Miss

Bernstein Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226570693, ISBN: HB: 9780226570723, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry".Near/Miss", Berns...

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Philosophy

Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination

Garver Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780226575568, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In "Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination", Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a gu...

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Africa

Political Science

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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Political Science

America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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Photography

Carrie Mae Weems Strategies of Engagement

Lydenberg Robin, Anderson Ash

ISBN: PB: 9781892850331, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2018
225 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 115 colour plates, 30 halftones

Few American artists today are creating work as striking and politically charged as Carrie Mae Weems".Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" explores a unique body of aesthetically powerful work that is particularly relevant in the context of cu...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

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Islam

Business & Economics

Beyond Debt Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

Rudnyckyj Daromir

ISBN: PB: 9780226552088, ISBN: HB: 9780226551920, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change – yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. "Beyond Debt" describes e...

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Philosophy

Human Condition Second Edition

Arendt Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780226586601, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations – from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking origin...

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America

Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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