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Sport

Rumble in the Jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage

Erenberg Lewis A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226059433, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

The 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an o...

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Cartography

Cartography The Ideal and Its History

Edney Matthew H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226605685, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
296 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 65 halftones

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has pr...

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Biography & Memoires

Strength of Soul

Enright Naomi Raquel

ISBN: PB: 9781940939728, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2019
166 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Naomi Raquel Enright's "Strength of Soul" proposes tangible strategies and ideas on how to challenge systemic racism through naming and resisting the ideology of racial difference and of the white supremacy at its root. Enright explores racism and th...

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Poetry

Of Darkness and Light Poems by Kim Cornwall

Erd Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781602233744, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
50 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

This is the hardest kind of listening. / And who will care? / Most do not. / It's all applause, / applause applause. / How is it possible / to ask for more than that? An honest work, stunningly passionate: Kim Cornwall's spirit-infused poetry weaves...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespearean Territories

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226559193, ISBN: HB: 9780226559056, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In "Shakespearean Territories", Stuart Elden reveals just how much S...

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Anthropology

Neighborhood of Gods The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai

Elison William

ISBN: PB: 9780226494906, ISBN: HB: 9780226494876, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually named as one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination – as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most people who liv...

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Literary Criticism

Paraliterary The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

Emre Merve

ISBN: PB: 9780226473970, ISBN: HB: 9780226473833, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers – attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tong...

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Business & Economics

Cigarettes, Inc. An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

Enstad Nan

ISBN: PB: 9780226533315, ISBN: HB: 9780226533285, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Too often, notions of capitalist change rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity – for good or ill – to the rest of the world. In "Cigarettes, Inc"., Nan Enstad creates an in...

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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Artificial Darkness An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media

Elcott Noam M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597751, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 145 halftones

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, "artificial darkness" has been overlooked – until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science an...

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Gardening

Sex on the Kitchen Table The Romance of Plants and Your Food

Ellstrand Norman C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226574899, ISBN: HB: 9780226574752, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 line drawings, 6 tables

At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to hor...

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