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Poetry

Dream Women Called

Wilson Lori

ISBN: PB: 9781938769740, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the poems in The Dream Women Called, Lori Wilson attends to the spirits of depression, uncertainty, and fear while wondering at the beauty in what's broken, the remarkable in the ordinary, and the balm that the natural world can offer. Follow...

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Biochemistry

Planet of Viruses Third Edition

Zimmer Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226782591, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

In 2020, an invisible germ – a virus – wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like g...

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Poetry

Poetry in Exile Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition

Hrdlicka Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024646572, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlicka – one of the Czech Republic's foremost experts on lyric poetry – examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlicka a...

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Philosophy

Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature

Hailey Charlie

ISBN: HB: 9780226769950, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 6 line drawings

Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one plac...

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Poetry

Portulans

Sommer Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226737393, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taking inspiration from medieval sea charts – portulans – the poems in Jason Sommer's collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a journey. Creating a coordinate system charting paths between ports and the dangers that surr...

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Judaism

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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Travel

Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska

Rettig Molly

ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...

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Media Studies

Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016 Useful Recollections Part III

Nordenstreng Kaarle

ISBN: PB: 9788024645056, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
540 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Finnish scholar Kaarle Nordenstreng provides a unique account of the Prague-based International Organization of Journalists, a group that was at one time the world's largest...

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Anthropology

Gathering Medicines Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South

Farquhar Judith, Lai Lili

ISBN: PB: 9780226763651, ISBN: HB: 9780226763514, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 3 tables

In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally...

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Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

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