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Education

Gender Studies

Designing in Class Activities to Promote Equity and Inclusion

Kumar Rita, Refaei Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781947602199, ISBN: HB: 9781947602236, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

According to recent research by scholar Lauren Musu-Gillette, college enrollment of traditional-aged students has increased notably in the past twenty years, with significant increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic males and Hispanic...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of Anambas Islands, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 69

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Suharsono, Soemodinoto Arisetiarso, Basuki Riyanto

ISBN: PB: 9781934151594, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of the Anambas Islands in western Indonesia conducted in May 2012. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on...

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Performing Arts

Rusalka A Lyrical Fairy-tale in Three Acts

Kvapil Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024643816, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
100 pp., 19x12.7 cm, 20 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Famous as the libretto for Antonin Dvorak's opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil's poem "Rusalka" is an intriguing work of literature on its own. Directly inspired by Hans Christian And...

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History

Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

Kemp Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226513706, ISBN: HB: 9780226386218, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongo...

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Poetry

Rise Wildly

Kelley Tina

ISBN: PB: 9781933880808, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching on matters such as marriage, child-rearing, and caregiving for her mother and her earth, Kelley's poems betray an unabashed affection for big words and...

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Poetry

Quiet Orient Riot

Khankan Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9781632430830, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Tracing the conception of a child through to her birth, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherho...

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Music

Beethoven A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

Kinderman William

ISBN: HB: 9780226669052, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music e...

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Islam

Christmas and the Qur'an

Kuschel Karl-Josef

ISBN: PB: 9781909942387, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The familiar and heartwarming story of Christmas is one of hope, encapsulated by the birth of the infant Jesus. It is also a story that unites Christianity and Islam – two faiths that have often been at odds with each other. The accounts of the Nativ...

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Philosophy

Critique The Stakes of Form

Khatib Sami

ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...

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Europe

Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance

Kramer Nathaniel, Stewart Jon

ISBN: HB: 9788763546706, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
279 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Danish Golden Age was marked by several key events: the Napoleonic Wars, the bombardment of Copenhagen, the state bankruptcy in 1814 and the ensuing financial crisis, the revolution of 1848, and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1...

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