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Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Film Studies

Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)

Morris Errol

ISBN: HB: 9780226922683, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 49 colour plates, 39 halftones

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the cre...

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Europe

Ghosts of Berlin Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape

Ladd Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226558721, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In the twenty years since its original publication, "The Ghosts of Berlin" has become a classic, an unparalleled guide to understanding the presence of history in our built environment, especially in a space as historically contested – and emotionall...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Government of Desire A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject

de Beistegui Miguel

ISBN: HB: 9780226547374, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in "The Government of Desire", is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for...

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Europe

Great Cat and Dog Massacre The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy

Kean Hilda

ISBN: PB: 9780226573946, ISBN: HB: 9780226318325, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why w...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Martin Heidegger's Grouch

Marchand Yan

ISBN: HB: 9783035800524, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Africa

General

Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands

Ryan Chance Kerry

ISBN: PB: 9780226519661, ISBN: HB: 9780226519524, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In "Living Politics", Kerry Ryan Chance radically fl...

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Photography

Object Lessons Zofia Rydet's "Sociological Record"

Pijarski Krzysztof

ISBN: PB: 9788364177378, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, May 2018
280 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 140 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911-1097) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around...

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Fiction

Elephant in the Room Women Draw Their World

ISBN: HB: 9789385932243, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
240 pp., 24.1x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that is similar and different across cultures. In the striking, surprising, often funny drawings featured he...

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Other

Cesky, Prosim I Czech for Foreigners

Cvejnova Jitka

ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024615776, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
562 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 98 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! These new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requires no mediating language and thus is id...

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