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Buddhism

Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism

Burnouf Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226269689, ISBN: HB: 9780226081236, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, "Introduction a l'histoire du Buddhisme indien", by the great French scholar of Sanskrit Eugene Burnouf, set the course for the academic study of Buddhism – and Indian B...

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Literary Criticism

Vise and Shadow Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226254333, ISBN: HB: 9780226254166, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three".I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination", he writes in the preface...

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America

Culture Studies

In the Watches of the Night Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

Baldwin Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269542, ISBN: HB: 9780226036021, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...

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General

Enigma of Diversity The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice

Berrey Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226246239, ISBN: HB: 9780226246062, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era – but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contempor...

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World

Dispatches from Dystopia Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten

Brown Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226242798, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 maps

"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montan...

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Literary Criticism

Fragments and Assemblages Forming Compilations of Medieval London

Bahr Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9780226269405, ISBN: HB: 9780226924915, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones

In "Fragments and Assemblages", Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manuscript compilations from...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Western Flyer Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116761, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 31 halftones

In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed...

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Poetry

Ozone Journal

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226207032, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

from "Ozone Journal" Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette, we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference between an oboe and a bassoon at the river's edge under cover...

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Ancient World

Persius A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: HB: 9780226241845, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metapho...

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Christianity

Revival and Awakening American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism

Becker Adam H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226145310, ISBN: HB: 9780226145280, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as...

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