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Culture Studies

Rum Maniacs Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

Warner Osborn Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780226099897, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered...

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Poetry

River of Light A Conversation with Kabir

Morgan John

ISBN: PB: 9781602232273, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
68 pp., 17.7x21.6 cm, 13 colour plates

Surrender to a wild river and unexpected things can happen. Time on the water can produce moments of pristine clarity or hatch wild thoughts, foster a deep connection with the real world or summon the spiritual".River of Light: A Conversation with Ka...

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General

Culture Studies

Revisiting the Sixties Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade

Bieger Laura, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593399904, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
343 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones

The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Summer of Love – the1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in US history. These years launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America", dividing...

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Literary Criticism

Renaissance Drama Volume 41

Masten Jeffrey, West William N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226158112, University of Chicago Press, January 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Renaissance Drama" explores the rich variety of theatrical and performance traditions and practices in early modern Europe and intersecting cultures. Volume 41 features articles that extend the scope of our understanding of early modern playing, the...

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Philosophy

Romantic Absolute Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804

Nassar Dalia

ISBN: HB: 9780226084060, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic amon...

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Gynecology

Public Health

Rhetoric of Pregnancy

Seigel Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780226071916, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you're pregnant and can afford one, you're going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From "What to Expect When You're Expecting" to "Pregnancy for Dummies", these guides act as portable mentors for women who want...

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General

Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

Thornton Arland

ISBN: PB: 9780226104461, ISBN: HB: 9780226798608, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps

European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm – one that has affecte...

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Anthropology

Religious Bodies Politic Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

Bernstein Anya

ISBN: PB: 9780226072722, ISBN: HB: 9780226072555, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 6 tables

"Religious Bodies Politic" examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist pop...

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Education

Realizing Educational Rights Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities

Newman Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780226071749, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Realizing Educational Rights", Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how...

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Music

Richard Wagner A Life in Music

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226924618, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 37 line drawings

Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung", Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in histo...

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