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Poetry

Oh You Robot Saints!

Morgan Frank Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780887486685, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Part bestiary, part litany, part elegy, Rebecca Morgan Frank's Oh You Robot Saints! is populated by a strange menagerie of early automata and robots, including octobots and an eighteenth-century digesting duck, set alongside medieval mechanical virgi...

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Business & Economics

Digital Supply Chains A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Digitalization

Mrozek Thomas, Seitz Daniel, Gundermann Kai-Uwe, Dicke Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9783593512051, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

Concrete and clear instructions for digital transformation in business! Supply chain management is, without question, deeply affected by the disruptive flux of forces of a modern organization, both positively and negatively. Between advanced analytic...

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Fiction

High Wind

Misra Tilottoma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932823, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family's. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she Assamese, like her father, or Khasi, like her mother? As a...

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Education

Teachers on the Waves of Transformation School Culture Before and After 1989

Moree Dana

ISBN: PB: 9788024643779, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
275 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! It is known that a society in transformation undergoes significant changes on many levels, but structural and cultural changes are arguably two of the most significant. How do such monumen...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism A Philosophical Manifesto

Morris Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781551647425, ISBN: HB: 9781551647449, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical so...

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Media Studies

Philosophy

Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities Volume 2

Mauro Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9781649590084, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
513 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 colour plates, 5 halftones, 42 figures

In the humanities, the field of "social knowledge creation" has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and pe...

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Women Studies

Foot in the Door Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu

Mangubhai Jayshree, Irudayam Aloysius S. J., Sydenham Emma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932939, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their political oppression. The authors examine the patri...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Justice Is an Option A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century

Meister Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226734484, ISBN: HB: 9780226702889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared,...

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America

This Radical Land A Natural History of American Dissent

Miller Daegan

ISBN: PB: 9780226336282, ISBN: HB: 9780226336145, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature", wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America t...

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America

Women Studies

Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women

Moon Katie J.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...

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