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Biography & Memoires

Drop of Treason Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA

Stevenson Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226356686, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Philip Agee's story is the stuff of a John le Carre novel – perilous and thrilling adventures around the globe. He joined the CIA as a young idealist, becoming an operations officer in hopes of seeing the world and safeguarding his country. He was th...

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Education

Gender Studies

Designing in Class Activities to Promote Equity and Inclusion

Kumar Rita, Refaei Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781947602199, ISBN: HB: 9781947602236, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

According to recent research by scholar Lauren Musu-Gillette, college enrollment of traditional-aged students has increased notably in the past twenty years, with significant increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic males and Hispanic...

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General

Dynastic Imagination Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Daub Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226737874, ISBN: HB: 9780226737737, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mec...

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Performing Arts

Gender Studies

Dancing Odissi Paratopic Performances of Gender and State

Banerji Anurima

ISBN: PB: 9780857425539, Seagull Books, February 2020
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones, 22 facsimiles

Odissi holds iconic status as one of the eight classical dance forms recognized and promoted by the Indian government. This book traces the dance's transformation from its historical role as a regional artistic practice to its modern incarnation as t...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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Women Studies

Asia

Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Dangerous Outcast" traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

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History

Women Studies

Dante and the Early Astronomer Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens

Daugherty Tracy

ISBN: HB: 9780300239898, Yale University Press, June 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as ins...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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