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Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...

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Contemporary Art

Sadie Benning Shared Eye

Filipovic Elena, Mehring Christine, Corbett John, Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: PB: 9780941548700, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
184 pp., 25.4x19.6 cm, 72 colour plates

This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition "Shared Eye", presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in "Shared Eye" defy easy categorization: they inc...

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Anthropology

Wandering Spirits Loneliness and Longing in Greenland

Flora Janne

ISBN: PB: 9780226610566, ISBN: HB: 9780226610429, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world – a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In "Wandering Spirits", Flora reveals how deeply connec...

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Travel

Europe

Renaissance Prague

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...

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Christianity

Ministry of Presence Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and the Law

Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226641836, ISBN: HB: 9780226779751, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most people in the United States today no longer live their lives under the guidance of local institutionalized religious leadership, such as rabbis, ministers, and priests; rather, liberals and conservatives alike have taken charge of their own reli...

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Film Studies

America

Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959

Feeney Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...

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Military

Guerrilla Marketing Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia

Fattal Alexander L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226590646, ISBN: HB: 9780226590509, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

Brand warfare is real".Guerrilla Marketing" details the Colombian government's efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on whi...

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Europe

Marketable Values Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain

Fitz-Gibbon Desmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226584331, ISBN: HB: 9780226584164, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that land should be – or even could be – treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and politi...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Third Edition, 2018-2019

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226578781, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Medieval

Europe

Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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