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Music

Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills

Narayan Kirin

ISBN: PB: 9780226407562, ISBN: HB: 9780226407425, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a fo...

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Business & Economics

Selling Power Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940

Neufeld John L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226399638, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 26 line drawings, 9 tables

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison'...

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Anthropology

Phoenix An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast

Nigg Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780226195490, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 17 line drawings

Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world a...

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Fiction

Shadows of Your Black Memory

Ndongo Donato

ISBN: PB: 9780997228700, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2016
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the...

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America

Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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Nature

Plant Evolution An Introduction to the History of Life

Niklas Karl J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226342146, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates, 16 halftones, 24 line drawings, 20 tables

Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on an...

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America

General

Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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Medieval

Neighboring Faiths Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

Nirenberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226379852, ISBN: HB: 9780226168937, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In "Neighboring Faiths", David Nirenberg examines...

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Contemporary Art

Concave Thoughts 256 Digital Drawings

Netzhammer Yves

ISBN: PB: 9783037345344, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
512 pp., 20.3x14 cm, Illustrated in halftones throughout

The digital drawings of Yves Netzhammer invite viewers into a fascinating world of figures that appear both human and animal, while simultaneously blurring the distinction between object and living thing. By turns nightmarish or playful and cartoon-l...

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Ecology

Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change A Guide to Environmental Decision Making

Norton Bryan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226197456, ISBN: HB: 9780226197319, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 10 line drawings, 3 tables

Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in "Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change". One of the most trafficked terms in...

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