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Women Studies

Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence The Right to Heal: Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India

Chatterji Angana P., Buluswar Shashi, Kaur Mallika

ISBN: HB: 9789384757113, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
454 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence" elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and qu...

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Culture Studies

Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack

Cappello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...

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Literary Criticism

Archaeology & Paleontology

Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections

Christiansen Thomas, Ryholt Kim

ISBN: HB: 9788763543743, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
156 pp., 37.5x29.2 cm, 106 colour plates

Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...

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Reference

Immersion A Writer's Guide to Going Deep

Conover Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226113067, ISBN: HB: 9780226416168, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including...

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Psychology

Wandering Mind What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking

Corballis Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418919, ISBN: HB: 9780226238616, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

If we've done our job well – and, let's be honest, if we're lucky – you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how i...

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Contemporary Art

Before Pictures

Crimp Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9780226423456, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 151 colour plates

Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation" – the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cind...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Assassin of Youth A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs

Chasin Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226276977, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing ra...

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Education

Purposeful Graduate Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

Clydesdale Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226418889, ISBN: HB: 9780226236346, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal – career training – and college stu...

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Contemporary Art

Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago

Corbett John, Dempsey Jim, Moss Jessica, Born Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573480, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, September 2016
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour plates, 35 halftones

Accompanying an exhibition at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, this book is the definitive introduction to Chicago's first artistic movement, the Monster Roster. The volume includes an overview of the artists involved, such as Leon Go...

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Chemistry

History

Radium and the Secret of Life

Campos Luis A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418742, ISBN: HB: 9780226238272, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in l...

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