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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...

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Education

Testing Charade Pretending to Make Schools Better

Koretz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226644882, ISBN: HB: 9780226408712, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that scho...

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Spanish

Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings

Kratochvilova Dana

ISBN: PB: 9788024638690, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! With a focus on Spanish modality, this book presents Bohumil Zavadil's theoretical approach – the first such presentation in English – to this category and, consequently, analyzes its poss...

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Poetry

Be-Hooved

Ka Mar

ISBN: PB: 9781602233768, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains".Be-Hooved", her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings – structured along th...

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Gender Studies

Book of Minor Perverts Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality

Kahan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226607955, ISBN: HB: 9780226607818, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities – what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts" – has never before been told. In "The Book of Minor Perverts", Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart...

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America

Islands of Sovereignty Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire

Kahn Jeffrey S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226587417, ISBN: HB: 9780226587387, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 17 line drawings

In "Islands of Sovereignty", anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal...

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History

How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology

Krige John

ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...

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History of Art

On Art

Kabakov Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226384733, ISBN: HB: 9780226384566, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the "leader" of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Cir...

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Literary Criticism

Minor Creatures Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel

Kreilkamp Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226576374, ISBN: HB: 9780226576237, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

In the nineteenth century, richly-drawn social fiction became one of England's major cultural exports. At the same time, a surprising companion came to stand alongside the novel as a key embodiment of British identity: the domesticated pet. In works...

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Performing Arts

Strategic Planning in the Arts A Practical Guide

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781512601749, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Planning today is more important than ever. Both acquisition and allocation of resources are increasingly difficult for arts organizations as a result of emerging technologies, reduced arts education, aging donors, and the advent of new forms of ente...

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