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Gender Studies

Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church

Allie Tichenor Kimba

ISBN: PB: 9781611689099, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in Wes...

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General

Processual Sociology

Abbott Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226336626, ISBN: HB: 9780226336596, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a "processual" ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing – making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. H...

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General

Green Victorians The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District

Albritton Vicky, Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780226339986, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life – one without constant, environmentally damaging growth – might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the his...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx at the Margins On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226345673, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Marx at the Margins", Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic wor...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Marcus Aurelius in Love

Aurelius Marcus, Fronto Marcus Cornelius

ISBN: PB: 9780226378114, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered – the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, w...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

On the Edge of the Holocaust The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture

Aizenberg Edna

ISBN: PB: 9781611688566, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment...

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Education

Unsettled Belonging Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11

Abu El-Haj Thea Renda

ISBN: PB: 9780226289465, ISBN: HB: 9780226289328, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

"Unsettled Belonging" tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent...

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General

Anthropology

Banking on Words The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

Appadurai Arjun

ISBN: PB: 9780226318776, ISBN: HB: 9780226318639, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008 – while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking – was,...

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Fiction

Maze Maker A Novel

Ayrton Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226042435, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
328 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"I address you across more than three thousand years, you who live at the conjunction of the Fish and the Water-carrier", speaks Daedalus, an artisan, inventor, and designer born into an utterly alien family of heroes who value acts of war above all...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Cornerstone The Birth of the City in Mesopotamia

Azara Pedro, Swartz Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788493923174, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, October 2015
106 pp., 21x15.8 cm

Taking us back to the earliest days of cities – and the earliest days of human civilization – in Mesopotamia, Pedro Azara in "Cornerstone" offers a contemporary view on the rise and growth of early cities and urban culture. Investigating ruins and ex...

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