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Poetry

BEIT

Green Eryn

ISBN: PB: 9781936970667, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
100 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

Eryn Green's new collection of poetry "BEIT" is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet – the second letter o...

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Poetry

Insofar

Gridley Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781936970650, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
80 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

"Insofar" is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A–Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary...

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Anthropology

Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective

Ginzburg Carlo, Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226674414, ISBN: HB: 9780226674384, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables

In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God", fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches,...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Ganguli Ina, Kahn Shulamit, MacGarvie Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780226695624, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 line drawings, 48 tables

The number of immigrants in the US science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce and among recipients of advanced STEM degrees at US universities has increased in recent decades. In light of the current public debate about immigr...

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Fiction

Waiting A Collection of Stories

Gandhi Nighat

ISBN: HB: 9789385932540, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" that religion deman...

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Anthropology

Signs of the Americas A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu

Garcia Edgar

ISBN: PB: 9780226659022, ISBN: HB: 9780226658971, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in "Signs of the Americas". Rather than be...

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America

Troublemakers Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay

Gellman Erik S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226603926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 72 colour plates, 175 halftones

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? "Troublemakers" fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In di...

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Fiction

Lifelines New Writing from Bangladesh

Ghuznavi Farah

ISBN: PB: 9789381017845, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The first collection of its kind, "Lifelines" presents new work by young female writers from Bangladesh. Their stories portray multifaceted characters trying to take control of their own destinies, challenging stereotypes that cast the complex countr...

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General

Architecture

Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction

Glauser Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones

More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...

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Contemporary Art

Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour

Graw Isabelle, Menke Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...

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