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Christianity

America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Mammals

Ecology

Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park

Smith Douglas W., Stahler Daniel R., MacNulty Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226728346, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 colour plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings

In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated af...

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Literary Criticism

Polonica

Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel

Szary-Matywiecka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...

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History

Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences

Spary E. C., Zilberstein Anya

ISBN: PB: 9780226726861, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical proces...

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Philosophy

Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...

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Poetry

Storage Unit for the Spirit House

Shein Win Maw

ISBN: PB: 9781632430861, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

With sharp focus and startling language, the poems in Maw Shein Win's second book, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, look through physical objects to glimpse the ephemeral, the material, and the immaterial. Vinyl records, felt wolverines, a belt use...

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Music

Sun Ra's Chicago Afrofuturism and the City

Sites William

ISBN: PB: 9780226732107, ISBN: HB: 9780226732077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Vanished Giants The Lost World of the Ice Age

Stuart Anthony J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226432847, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the stone age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth. These ani...

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Poetry

wyrd] bird

Stancek Claire Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781632430847, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German m...

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History of Art

Myself and My Aims Writings on Art and Criticism

Schwitters Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780226129396, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 83 halftones

Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance for artists working today. His celebrated Merz pictures – colla...

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