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Anthropology

Legacies, Logics, Logistics Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy

Guyer Jane I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326870, ISBN: HB: 9780226326733, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Legacies, Logics, Logistics" brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined...

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Performing Arts

Architecture of Story A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer

Dunne Will

ISBN: PB: 9780226181912, ISBN: HB: 9780226181882, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables

While successful plays tend to share certain storytelling elements, there is no single blueprint for how a play should be constructed. Instead, seasoned playwrights know how to select the right elements for their needs and organize them in a structur...

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Public Health

Vaccine Nation America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

Conis Elena

ISBN: PB: 9780226378398, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and...

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Photography

To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare

Braunert Svea, Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates

We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...

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Asia

Islam

Islam Translated Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Ronit Ricci

ISBN: PB: 9780226380537, ISBN: HB: 9780226710884, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 3 maps, 4 halftones

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporati...

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Film Studies

Two Weeks in the Midday Sun A Cannes Notebook

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226314433, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 43 line drawings

A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert – with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb – achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to...

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Education

Women Studies

Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success

Hamilton

ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables

Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...

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Music

Say No to the Devil The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis

Zack Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780226380988, ISBN: HB: 9780226234106, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music". Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead – who...

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General

America

Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society

Krasovic Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...

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Europe

Habitual Offenders A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226335339, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones

In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine...

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