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Anthropology

Colombia, Peru: Bajo Putumayo-Cotuhe Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 31

Thompson Michelle E.

ISBN: PB: 9780982841990, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates

In October 2019, a large multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities around the junction of the Putumayo and Cotuhe Rivers in the lowland Amazonian regio...

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Music

Comedians of the King "Opera-Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution

Doe Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226743257, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 16 halftones, 28 line drawings, 5 tables

Opera in ancien regime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragedie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opera comique, a theatrical form tracing its roots to the...

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America

Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

Guarneri Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones

At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Enlightenment The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period

Franco Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226709062, ISBN: HB: 9780226259819, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 23x15 cm

While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche's earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsi...

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General

Ecology

Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology

Tarinski Yavor, Schismenos Alexandros

ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...

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Architecture

Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Schrenk Lisa D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226318943, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 179 halftones, 1 table

Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architecture hi...

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Biography & Memoires

Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life

Bano Saeeda

ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries

Coquard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...

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Evolution

Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...

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Jewish Studies

Don Isaac Abravanel An Intellectual Biography

Cohen-Skalli Cedric

ISBN: HB: 9781684580231, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was one of the great inventors of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier, a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings, a preacher and exegete, a prominent political actor in royal entourag...

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