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LingVis Visual Analytics for Linguistics

Butt Miriam, Hautli-Janisz Annette, Lyding Verena

ISBN: PB: 9781684000333, ISBN: HB: 9781684000340, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume collects landmark research in a burgeoning field of visual analytics for linguistics, called LingVis. Combining linguistic data and linguistically oriented research questions with techniques and methodologies developed in the computer sci...

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Music

Anthropology

Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy

Berliner Paul F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226628684, ISBN: HB: 9780226628547, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...

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Culture Studies

Criminology

Going All City Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture

Bloch Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9780226493589, ISBN: HB: 9780226493442, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard...

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Africa

Anthropology

For Money and Elders Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya

Blunt Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226655758, ISBN: HB: 9780226655611, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...

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Contemporary Art

Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting

Brandesky Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9788024642697, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
450 pp., 26x23.4 cm, 125 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Although Czech scenographer and painter Jaroslav Malina (1937-2016) lived in turbulent times, he won international respect for his work. Spanning Malina's entire life – from his early year...

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Poetry

Brightword

Burwick Kimberly

ISBN: PB: 9780887486517, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, November 2019
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Though none of us can predict our own futures, there are distinctive factors – individual and collective – that may forcibly turn our attention toward the uncertain. In the poems in Brightword the speaker, a mother, contemplates the microcosm and ma...

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Poetry

Variations on Dawn and Dusk

Beachy-Quick Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781632430700, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Acting as poetic records of light, the poems in "Variations on Dawn and Dusk" follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of Marfa, TX. Built on the footprint of the town's o...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Contesting Leviathan Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict

Beldo Les

ISBN: PB: 9780226657400, ISBN: HB: 9780226657370, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...

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Poetry

War Makes Everyone Lonely

Barnhart Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226660462, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In his first collection of poems, many of which were written during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic, Graham Barnhart explores themes of memory, trauma, and isolation. Ranging from conventional lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and...

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Poetry

Epithalamia

Batykefer Erinn

ISBN: PB: 9781938769436, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
40 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Inhabiting the claustrophobia of marriage and domestic life, Erinn Batykefer's poems use the deeply personal as the lens through which she investigates larger cultural ideas. She reckons with feeling simultaneously large and small, finding ways to fa...

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