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Fiction

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Hidden Path

Fortun Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...

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Poetry

Marksman

Friedman Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780887486593, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations...

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Birds

Vulture The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

Fallon Katie

ISBN: PB: 9781684580330, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known a...

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Literary Criticism

Hooked Art and Attachment

Felski Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226729633, ISBN: HB: 9780226729466, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeli...

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Cartography

Dislocating the Orient British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

Foliard Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226755724, ISBN: HB: 9780226451336, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 45 halftones, 2 line drawings

While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With "Dislocating the Orient", Daniel Foliard tells the story o...

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Political Science

Probable Justice Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State

Friedman Rachel Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226730936, ISBN: HB: 9780226730769, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same t...

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Law

Patents for Power Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology

Farley Robert M., Isaacs Davida H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226716527, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law – and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright – has never been greater. But as Robert M. Farley and D...

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History of Art

Laurits Tuxen The Court Paintings

Fonss-Lundberg Thyge Christian, Svanholm Lise

ISBN: HB: 9788763546782, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, July 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 247 colour plates, 36 halftones

Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927) was a phenomenally talented artist who, thanks to his skills within both painting and diplomacy, established himself as one of the most important European court painters in the nineteenth century – active, among other places...

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Christianity

Law

Church State Corporation Construing Religion in US Law

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226454696, ISBN: HB: 9780226454559, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...

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Mammals

Phyllostomid Bats A Unique Mammalian Radiation

Fleming Theodore H., Davalos Liliana M., Mello Marco A. R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696126, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
512 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 9 colour plates, 46 halftones

With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Phyllostomidae bat family (American leaf-nosed bats) is one of the world's most diverse mammalian families...

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