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Oncology

Cancer Companion An Oncologist's Advice on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery

Srivastava Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9780226479347, ISBN: HB: 9780226306643, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Cancer. It's the diagnosis no one wants to hear. Unfortunately though, these days most of us have known or will know someone who receives it. But what's next? With the diagnosis comes not only fear and uncertainty, but numerous questions, and a lot o...

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Media Studies

Social Media – New Masses

Baxmann Inge, Beyes Timon, Pias Claus

ISBN: PB: 9783037346426, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2017
376 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Mass gatherings are at the center of contemporary discussions about community formation, communication, and social control. As new digital technologies and social media platforms have emerged, the concept of the mass gathering has evolved in parallel...

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Music

Curious and Modern Inventions Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy

Cypess Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226319445, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 17 halftones, 72 line drawings, 4 tables

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition – but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully expl...

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Anthropology

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Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South India

Nakassis Constantine V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327853, ISBN: HB: 9780226327716, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 1 table

In "Doing Style", Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call "style" anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Ta...

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America

Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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Philosophy

Fragile Life Accepting Our Vulnerability

May Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226439952, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity...

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General

Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences

Sayer Derek

ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...

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History

Science in the Archives Pasts, Presents, Futures

Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226432366, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 11 line drawings, 1 table

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by g...

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Contemporary Art

Dianna Frid + Richard Rezac Split Complementary

Girson Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780985096021, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
76 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 56 colour plates

Dianna Frid's sculptures, installations, artist's books, and mixed media work explore the intersection of text and textile, matter and subject matter. Richard Rezac has created thought-provoking abstract object-sculptures since the 1980s. This book,...

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Ecology

Politics of Scale A History of Rangeland Science

Sayre Nathan F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226083254, ISBN: HB: 9780226083117, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth's ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production –...

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