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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Sport

Selling the Yellow Jersey The Tour de France in the Global Era

Reed Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780226206530, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables

Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America early last year when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong wi...

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Jewish Studies

Socrates and the Jews Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

Leonard Miriam

ISBN: PB: 9780226213347, ISBN: HB: 9780226472478, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged...

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America

Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886

Donahue Katherine C., Switzer David C.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones

On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Fiction

Suki

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789383074105, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "Suki", Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared between herself an...

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General

Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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Anthropology

Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique

Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226153865, ISBN: HB: 9780226153728, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however,...

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Poetry

Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud

Killarney Clary

ISBN: PB: 9780226177984, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
88 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud", the latest collection from enigmatic prose poet Killarney Clary, is a book-length sequence of unnumbered, untitled poems, each evoking a clear moment in time. The details on which Clary chooses to focus suggest a nar...

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Sea Life

Nature

Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Gershwin Lisa-ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226213033, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
456 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 16 colour illus.

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life – growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick enviro...

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