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Film Studies

Nollywood The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Haynes Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226387956, ISBN: HB: 9780226387819, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 tables

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, p...

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Political Science

Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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Contemporary Art

Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Benn Michaels Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226421186, ISBN: HB: 9780226210261, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In "The Beauty of a Social Problem", Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty thro...

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Philosophy

Public Health

Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

Leder Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...

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Fiction

Shadows of Your Black Memory

Ndongo Donato

ISBN: PB: 9780997228700, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2016
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the...

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America

Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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Mammals

Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey

Gluck John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226375656, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and deba...

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Culture Studies

Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack

Cappello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...

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Biochemistry

Biotechnology and Society An Introduction

Stevens Hallam

ISBN: PB: 9780226046013, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

With "Biotechnology and Society", Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, a...

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Education

Diversity Bargain And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities

Warikoo Natasha K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226400143, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education, about how universities should intervene – if at all – to ensure a diverse but deserving student population. But what about those for whom these issues matter...

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