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Photography
My Wrangell Mountains
Homberger Ruedi
ISBN: HB: 9781602231368, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
225 pp., 23x30.5 cm, 350 colour illus.
High atop cascading waterfalls and deep within the lush green depths of the valleys, Swiss photographer Ruedi Homberger has for more than twenty years captured in photographs the majestic beauty of eastern Alaska's Wrangell Mountain range. In additio...
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Gay and Lesbian Studies
Nuptial Deal Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance
Whitehead Jaye Cee
ISBN: PB: 9780226895291, ISBN: HB: 9780226895284, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm
Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. Centering on the everyday struggles...
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Philosophy
Political Science
Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis
Allhoff Fritz
ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...
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Literary Criticism
Shakespeare's Freedom
Greenblatt Stephen
ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.
Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...
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Education
Southern Stalemate Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Bonastia Christopher
ISBN: HB: 9780226063898, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm
In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citize...
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Literary Criticism
Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of the Novel
Aravamudan Srinivas
ISBN: PB: 9780226024493, ISBN: HB: 9780226024486, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones
Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent q...
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Asia
America
Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America
Frank Caroline
ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.
With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...
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Contemporary Art
Dawoud Bey Picturing People
ISBN: HB: 9780941548595, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2012
116 pp., 22.8x20.3 cm, 40 colour plates
Since 1975, photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture as a means for reflecting social circumstances. Ranging from street encounters to studio portraits, Bey has investigated numerous photogr...
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