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Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund Romance Languages versus Czech (A Parallel Corpus-Based Study)

Cermak Petr, Kratochvilova Dana, Nadvornikova Olga, Stichauer Pavel

ISBN: PB: 9788024645544, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
163 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages – French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish – and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Cze...

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Poetry

No One Leaves the World Unhurt

Foy John

ISBN: PB: 9781938769757, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

John Foy's newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O'Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyda...

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America

Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918

Jenkins Jeffery A., Peck Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables

Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...

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Architecture

Non-Design Architecture, Liberalism, and the Market

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226686066, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones

Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period, illuminating the unexpected philosophical common grou...

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Poetry

Creep Love

Walsh Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781938769764, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Michael Walsh's poetry collection Creep Love explores a family contending with a complex and ongoing crisis, the aftermath of which creates a shockwave that reverberates through these poems. Stories, half-truths, and lies combine into disturbing fabl...

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Architecture

Culture Studies

Of Bridges A Poetic and Philosophical Account

Harrison Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226735290, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 73 halftones

"Always", wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live". Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they...

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Poetry

One Summer Evening at the Falls

Campion Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226737119, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes – on the damp patio,...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton

Syrett Nicholas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226761558, ISBN: HB: 9780226638744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In 1922, Robert Allerton – described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago" – met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. From then on, they were vi...

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Africa

Darfur Allegory

Mustafa Abusharaf Rogaia

ISBN: PB: 9780226761725, ISBN: HB: 9780226761695, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's pol...

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Philosophy

Decent Life Morality for the Rest of Us

May Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226786346, ISBN: HB: 9780226609744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you? In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair – and it's also easy to judge ourselv...

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