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Fiction

Au Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781946724205, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2019
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Nancy Au's debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align, whose spirits attempt flight...

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Political Science

Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226638430, ISBN: HB: 9780226638263, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 12 tables

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have k...

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Europe

Revolution Structure and Meaning in World History

Arjomand Said Amir

ISBN: HB: 9780226026831, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revolutions tend neatly to bracket the French Revolution of 1789 with the fall of the Soviet Union two h...

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Anthropology

Life at Swift Water Place Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact

Anderson Doug D., Anderson Wanni W.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233683, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
400 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 130 halftones

This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in th...

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Poetry

Devonte Travels the Sorry Route

Anderson III T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9781632430670, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route", has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad array of events and phenomena from black history an...

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Political Science

Bending the Rules Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

Augustine Potter Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226621746, ISBN: HB: 9780226621609, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 22 tables

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreog...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Les Amphibiens du Nord de Madagascar

Andreone Franco, Crottini Angelica, Rosa Goncalo M., Rakotoarison Andolalao, Scherz Mark D., Raselimanana Achille P.

ISBN: PB: 9782953892376, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, March 2019
355 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 327 colour plates

The island of Madagascar hosts a large number of frogs with at least 315 described species, and many others still to be named. Northern Madagascar is rich in species, due to the heterogeneity of landscapes, including a large number of habitat types a...

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Performing Arts

Operatic Geographies The Place of Opera and the Opera House

Aspden Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226596013, ISBN: HB: 9780226595962, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as throug...

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Fiction

Mahuldiha Days

Agnihotri Anita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932175, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2018
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set deep in the forests of Bengal, India, "Mahuldiha Days" is the moving story of a young woman coming of age in her personal and professional life. Anita Agnihotri paints a vivid picture in this novel of life in a rural Indian setting that is quickl...

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Fiction

Empty Room

Abbas Sadia

ISBN: HB: 9789385932267, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her marriage is quickly revealed to be a sham, a trap from...

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