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Political Science

Not in Our Lifetimes The Future of Black Politics

Dawson Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226705347, ISBN: HB: 9780226138626, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 1 halftone, 4 line illus.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than...

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Performing Arts

Subversive Stages Reflections on Czech Theatre

Day Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9788024639536, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The motto "Narod sobe" – "From the Nation to Itself" – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also...

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Political Science

Racial Stasis The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics

DeSante Christopher D., Watts Smith Candis

ISBN: PB: 9780226643625, ISBN: HB: 9780226643595, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 40 line drawings

Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a mu...

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Children's Books

Let's Be Boldly Bearcat

Dobbs Kimberlee

ISBN: PB: 9781947603059, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2020
46 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 25 photos, 1 map

In "Let's Be Boldly Bearcat", the University of Cincinnati bearcat mascot takes young readers on a visual tour of the University of Cincinnati's campus, pausing at each of the fourteen colleges and regional campuses, to highlight flagship university...

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Public Health

Political Science

Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector

Dromi Shai M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226680248, ISBN: HB: 9780226680101, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

From Lake Chad to Iraq, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide relief around the globe, and their scope is growing every year. Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by these organizations, which are gene...

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Evolution

Principles of Animal Behavior (4th Edition)

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226448381, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
576 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 529 colour plates, 31 halftones, 3 line drawings

Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies present...

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America

Biography & Memoires

World of Juliette Kinzie Chicago before the Fire

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226664521, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

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Anthropology

Arctic Folly The Anthropology of a Delusion

Deleage Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781912808274, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2019
134 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a corpus including the first grammar of an Amerindian language and an astonishing body of transcribed ritua...

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Fiction

Freedom Fables Satire and Politics in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings

Dutta Kalyani

ISBN: HB: 9789385932489, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2019
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

From the writer of the delightful utopian fantasy "Sultana's Dream" come these witty tales describing the twists and turns of India's two-hundred-year relationship with the Imperial British. Available to contemporary English readers for the first tim...

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Africa

Music

Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

Dave Nomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...

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