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Poetry

Roughly For the North

Ojanen Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9781602233621, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North" "Roughly for the North" is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an a...

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Europe

Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

Long Pamela O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591285, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 halftones

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hund...

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History

Scientific Revolution

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226398341, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it". With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now upd...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Lyric Stage Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226582542, ISBN: HB: 9780226582405, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances – which should invite consolation, revelation, an...

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History of Art

Divine Spark of Syracuse

Rowland Ingrid D.

ISBN: PB: 9781512603057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and th...

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Music

Women Studies

Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland

Impey Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...

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Contemporary Art

Sonic Flux Sound, Art, and Metaphysics

Cox Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9780226543178, ISBN: HB: 9780226543031, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Co...

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Fiction

Foxy Aesop On the Edge

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789385932427, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Very little is known about Aesop who was supposed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the sixth century BC. It is his fables (and those attributed to him) that have come down to us through the centuries. In this version, a fabulist from...

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Media Studies

Friending the Past The Sense of History in the Digital Age

Liu Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226451954, ISBN: HB: 9780226451817, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones

Can today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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