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Archaeology & Paleontology

Europe

Germany's Ancient Pasts Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700

Maner Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226593074, ISBN: HB: 9780226592916, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic p...

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Fiction

Swarnalata

Misra Tilottoma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932458, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Set in mid-nineteenth-century Assam, when new concepts of modernity are increasingly challenging tradition, "Swarnalata" tells the story of three women from very different social backgrounds. Each of them swept up in the whirlpool of change, they her...

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Linguistics

Syntax-Semantics Interface

Hajicova Eva

ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...

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Music

Good Music What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Sheinbaum John J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226593388, ISBN: HB: 9780226593241, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 25 line drawings, 8 tables

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music – highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original – and, at the same time, has marginalized musi...

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Music

Trouble with Wagner

Steinberg Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226594194, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 12 halftones

In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of "The Ring of the Nibelung" for t...

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Women Studies

Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation

Sudarshan Ratna, Nandi Rajib

ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...

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Asia

Invention of Madness State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China

Baum Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226558240, ISBN: HB: 9780226580616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began...

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History of Art

On Art

Kabakov Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226384733, ISBN: HB: 9780226384566, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov was a galvanizing figure in Moscow's underground art community, ultimately gaining international prominence as the "leader" of a band of artists known as the Moscow Conceptual Cir...

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Philosophy

Irrevocable A Philosophy of Mortality

Lingis Alphonso

ISBN: PB: 9780226556932, ISBN: HB: 9780226556765, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology...

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Judaism

Gender Studies

Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Ladin Joy

ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...

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