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Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Future Sea How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans

Rowan Wright Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226542676, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop th...

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Poetry

Rise Wildly

Kelley Tina

ISBN: PB: 9781933880808, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and...

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Philosophy

Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226719436, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs....

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Anthropology

Science in the Forest, Science in the Past

Lloyd Geoffrey E. R., Vilaca Aparecida

ISBN: PB: 9781912808410, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2020
165 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection brings together leading social anthropologists, historians, philosophers of science and mathematics, and researchers in artificial intelligence to discuss the ontological presuppositions used in indigenous, Eastern, and Western societ...

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Earth Sciences

Science on a Mission How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean

Oreskes Naomi

ISBN: HB: 9780226732381, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
744 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 17 line drawings

What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who's footing th...

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Music

Anthropology

Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961 Scholars, Singers, Missionaries

Busse Berger Anna Maria

ISBN: HB: 9780226740348, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables

This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern r...

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Political Science

Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump

Miller Benjamin, Rubinovitz Ziv

ISBN: PB: 9780226735016, ISBN: HB: 9780226734965, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strateg...

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Fiction

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Hidden Path

Fortun Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...

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Political Science

House of Mirrors Justin Trudeau's Foreign Policy

Engler Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781551647494, ISBN: HB: 9781551647517, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents himself as progressive on foreign affairs. According to Trudeau, he and his Liberals have brought Canada back after the disastrous Conservative government under Stephen Harper. In House of Mirrors, Yves...

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