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Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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Culture Studies

Reproduction by Design Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

McLaren Angus

ISBN: HB: 9780226560694, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm

Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a...

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Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Ecology

North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems

Lovecraft Amy Lauren, Eicken Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.

Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...

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Technology & Engineering

Autophobia Love and Hate in the Automotive Age

Ladd Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226467290, ISBN: HB: 9780226467412, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
236 pp., 23x15 cm

Cars are the scourge of civilization, responsible for everything from suburban sprawl and urban decay to environmental devastation and rampant climate change – not to mention our slavish dependence on foreign oil from dubious sources abroad. Add the...

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Design

French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975

Sherman Daniel J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226752693, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 10 colour illus.

For over a century, the idea of primitivism has motivated artistic modernism. Focusing on the three decades after World War II, known in France as "les trentes glorieuses" despite the loss of most of the country's colonial empire, this probing and ex...

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Before Porn Was Legal The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse

Heineman Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226325217, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
240 pp., 23x16 cm, 23 halftones

Struggling to survive in postWorld War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1919-2001) – a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother – turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Tour Guide Walking and Talking New York

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226919065, ISBN: HB: 9780226919058, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 8 line illus.

Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start – and that's where the city's tour guides...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film

Yekani Elahe Haschemi

ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...

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