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Women Studies

Expanding the Palace of Torah Orthodoxy and Feminism

Ross Tamar

ISBN: PB: 9781684580514, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider – herself an Orthodox Jew – Tama...

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Sport

Tinker to Evers to Chance The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America

Rapp David

ISBN: PB: 9780226790244, ISBN: HB: 9780226415048, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Their names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance came together in rough-and-tumble early twentiet...

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Asia

Realtime Making Digital China

Renaud Clement, Graezer Bideau Florence, Laperrouza Marc

ISBN: PB: 9782889153459, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Realtime is an investigation into China's digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of China's complex and changing reality. Realtime is a collection of original accounts, ana...

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Asia

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"

Riebold Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593509020, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
586 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the time of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a "weak state" dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a...

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History

Scientific Freedom under Attack Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History

Roth Ralf, Vatansever Asli

ISBN: PB: 9783593513119, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recent years have seen an alarming rise in antiintellectual outbursts by politicians, documented threats against radical scholars across continents, and serious blows to the fundamental right of scientific freedom. Scientific Freedom under Attack is...

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Poetry

I Thought There Would Be More Wolves Poems

Ryan Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781602234499, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and t...

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History

Experimental Fire Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

Rampling Jennifer M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710709, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables

In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...

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History

Poison Trials Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: PB: 9780226744858, ISBN: HB: 9780226744711, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 table

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived – the other died in agony. In...

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Political Science

State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family

Reardon Laurence Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm

Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...

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Contemporary Art

Endless

Reimer Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780945323273, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2021
124 pp., 22x14.5 cm, 51 colour plates, 26 halftones

For over fifteen years, Karen Reimer has dedicated her artistic life to reconsidering modernist ideals and minimalist embodiment through the intriguing quirks of handmade and everyday objects".Endless", offers over seventy-five gorgeous reproductions...

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