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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Normality A Critical Genealogy

Cryle Peter, Stephens Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Universalism without Uniformity Explorations in Mind and Culture

Cassaniti Julia L., Menon Usha

ISBN: PB: 9780226501680, ISBN: HB: 9780226501543, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 9 tables

One of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing...

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Travel

Reference

Writing Abroad A Guide for Travelers

Chilson Peter, Mulcahy Joanne B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226444499, ISBN: HB: 9780226444352, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tell me all about your trip!" It's a request that follows travelers as they head out into the world, and one of the first things they hear when they return. When we leave our homes to explore the wider world, we feel compelled to capture the experie...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy The Twilight of the Ancient World

Cantor Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226462516, ISBN: HB: 9780226462486, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays – "Coriolanus", "Julius Caeser", and "Antony and Cleopatra" – in his landmark "Shakespeare's Rome" (1976). With "Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy", he now argues that these plays form an integrated tri...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Rome Republic and Empire

Cantor Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226468952, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's "Shakespeare's Rome" has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the fi...

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Middle East

Instability in the Middle East Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2012

Cerny Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024634272, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration,...

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General

Fault Lines of History The India Papers II

Chakravarti Uma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932083, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
326 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Fault Lines of History" is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil right...

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Anthropology

Signs from Silence Ur of the First Sumerians

Charvat Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631301, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 6 halftones, 148 line drawings, 15 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 and 1934...

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Fiction

Women Studies

India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...

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History of Art

Spectacle and Leisure in Paris Degas to Mucha

Childs Elizabeth C.

ISBN: PB: 9780936316437, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, July 2017
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 62 colour illus.

Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as...

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