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Ancient World

Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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Military

Battleships The War at Sea

Bauernfeind Ingo

ISBN: PB: 9781612006178, Casemate, October 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Battleships conjure a golden age of naval history, when these floating powerhouses ruled the waves, carrying the military might of their respective countries around the globe. The battleship was the ultimate embodiment of naval power during the lat...

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Europe

Designs of Destruction The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century

Allais Lucia

ISBN: HB: 9780226286556, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 123 halftones

The twentieth century was the most destructive in human history, but from its vast landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect archit...

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Europe

Savages, Romans, and Despots Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder

Launay Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226575391, ISBN: HB: 9780226575254, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In "Savages, Romans, and Despots", Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour...

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Middle East

Freedom and Despair Notes from the South Hebron Hills

Shulman David

ISBN: PB: 9780226566658, ISBN: HB: 9780226566511, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we...

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America

Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central

Koskey Michael, Lotvonen Varpu, Tyrell Laurel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables

The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...

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America

World of Homeowners American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

Kwak Nancy H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598253, ISBN: HB: 9780226282350, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around th...

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Africa

Political Science

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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Political Science

America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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