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Literary Criticism

Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space

Kornbluh Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...

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Film Studies

Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary War and the Animated Film

Kornhaber Donna

ISBN: HB: 9780226472683, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones

In 2008, "Waltz with Bashir" shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats – an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering new book, the relationship between animation and...

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America

Political Science

America's Inequality Trap

Kelly Nathan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...

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Gender Studies

Gender and Governance Studies From South Asia

Kazi Seema

ISBN: HB: 9789385932403, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2019
400 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Gender and Governance" examines how different governance structures affect gender in five specific locations in South Asia: Swat in Pakistan, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Northern Province in Sri Lanka, and Kashmir and Manipur in In...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Newton and the Club of Astronomers

Kadi Marion, Kaplan Abram

ISBN: HB: 9783035801408, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
64 pp., 22x15.2 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

We know Isaac Newton as a brilliant polymath, inventor of the calculus and the person who first began to suss out the fundamental laws of physics. But in this delightful account of his life and thought aimed at young readers, we learn oh, so much mor...

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Public Health

Education

Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors

Kehinde Tolu

ISBN: PB: 9781512603330, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
200 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm

Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...

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Poetry

Cage of Lit Glass

Kell Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781938769399, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, "Cage of Lit Glass" engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting...

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Political Science

Literary Criticism

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...

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Ecology

Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation

Klein David R.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones

This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...

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Philosophy

Secret Body Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226679082, ISBN: HB: 9780226126821, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour illus.

Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves...

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