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Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

Ikard David

ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...

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Performing Arts

Reference

Character, Scene, and Story New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

Dunne Will

ISBN: PB: 9780226393506, ISBN: HB: 9780226393476, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with "The Dramatic Writer's Companion", offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now w...

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Performing Arts

Reference

Dramatic Writer's Companion (Second Edition) Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories

Dunne Will

ISBN: PB: 9780226494081, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In just eight years, "The Dramatic Writer's Companion" has become a classic among playwrights and screenwriters. Thousands have used its self-contained character, scene, and story exercises to spark creativity, hone their writing, and improve their s...

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Literary Criticism

Joyce's Ghosts Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

Luke Gibbons

ISBN: PB: 9780226526959, ISBN: HB: 9780226236179, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

For decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure. In "Joyce's Ghost...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 31

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226539270, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in "Tax Policy and the Economy Volume 31" are all directly related to important and often long-standing issues, often including how transfer programs affect tax rates and behavior. In the first paper, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Dar...

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Anthropology

Fragmente des Sog".Sothisrituals" von Oxyrhynchos aus Tebtynis

Topfer Susanne

ISBN: HB: 9788763543644, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
211 pp., 31.8x21.6 cm

The book contains the edition of a hieratic written text from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the 1st – 2nd century AD. The ritual text is a compilation of fumigation and libation spells for the main deities of the designed ritual place, the P...

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Music

Flip the Script European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

Rollefson J. Griffith

ISBN: PB: 9780226496214, ISBN: HB: 9780226496184, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it...

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Film Studies

Herzog by Ebert

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226500423, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge mat...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses Current Knowledge and Challenges

Haltiwanger John, Hurst Erik, Miranda Javier, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226454078, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings, 121 tables

Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company l...

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Political Science

General

Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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