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Europe

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Ira Jaroslav, Janac Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024635903, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...

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General

Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

Ikard David

ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...

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Anthropology

Art of Life and Death Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice

Irving Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780997367515, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2017
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

"The Art of Life and Death" explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworl...

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Photography

Photography, Trace, and Trauma

Iversen Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones

Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...

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Fiction

Papi A Novel

Indiana Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226244891, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Papi's there, around any corner", says the eight-year-old girl at the heart of "Papi".But you can't sit down and wait for him cuz that's a longer and more painful death". Living in Santo Domingo, she waits for her father to come back from the United...

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Christianity

Jewish Studies

War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution

Iyigun Murat

ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...

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Women Studies

Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India

Irudayam Aloysius S. J., Mangubhai Jayshree P., Lee Joel G.

ISBN: PB: 9789383074761, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
466 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

The right to equality regardless of gender or caste is fundamental in India. Yet even the Indian government has acknowledged that the institutional forces arrayed against this right are powerful – and, what's more, that they shape people's mindsets i...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Hard-Core Romance "Fifty Shades of Grey", Best-Sellers, and Society

Illouz Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226153698, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
104 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From its beginnings in "Twilight" fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million...

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Middle East

Islam

Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

Iqtidar Humeira

ISBN: PB: 9780226141732, ISBN: HB: 9780226384689, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
232 pp., 23.1x16 cm

"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...

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Mammals

Birds

Zookeeping An Introduction to the Science and Technology

Irwin Mark, Stoner John B., Cobaugh Aaron M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226925318, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
688 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 85 halftones, 55 line drawings, 48 tables

As species extinction, environmental protection, animal rights, and workplace safety issues come to the fore, zoos and aquariums need keepers who have the technical expertise and scientific knowledge to keep animals healthy, educate the public, and c...

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