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Poetry

Disturbing the Light

Green Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780887486609, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past...

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Poetry

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene Poems

Grumbling Megan

ISBN: PB: 9781946724328, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, October 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene vaults an ancient myth into the age of climate change. In this poetry collection, the goddess of spring now comes and goes erratically, drinks too much, and takes a human lover in our warming, unraveling world. Mea...

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Law

Political Science

How to Save a Constitutional Democracy

Ginsburg Tom, Huq Aziz Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226755076, ISBN: HB: 9780226564388, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of p...

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America

States of Exception in American History

Gerstle Gary, Isaac Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226712321, ISBN: HB: 9780226712291, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

"States of Exception in American History" brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the p...

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Political Science

Political Perversion Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering

Gunn Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226713441, ISBN: HB: 9780226713304, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, innovative book, "Political Perversion", rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues...

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Culture Studies

Women Studies

Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body

George Alys X.

ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...

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Pharmacy

Law

Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

Gabriel Joseph M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...

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Christianity

Literary Criticism

Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones

In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...

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America

Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination

Gradert Kenyon

ISBN: HB: 9780226694023, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. "Puritan" is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear...

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Philosophy

Political Science

What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman

Graeber David

ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm

David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...

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