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Mammals

Chimpanzees in Context A Comparative Perspective on Chimpanzee Behavior, Cognition, Conservation, and Welfare

Hopper Lydia M., Ross Stephen R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226727981, ISBN: HB: 9780226727844, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
752 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones, 44 tables

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, rising and veteran scholars take a fascinating com...

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Poetry

NAKED A New Poetry Collection

Oyewole Abiodun

ISBN: PB: 9781734618105, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2020
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

In his new collection of poetry, Naked, Abiodun Oyewole unveils his thoughts on self-love, forgiveness, lost love, survival, and cultural identity. Known as a founding member of The Last Poets, a spoken word performance group that arose out of the bl...

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Women Studies

Biography & Memoires

Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin

El Saadawi Nawal

ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...

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Philosophy

Opening of the American Mind Ten Years of The Point

ISBN: PB: 9780226738710, ISBN: HB: 9780226735801, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for though...

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History

Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences

Spary E. C., Zilberstein Anya

ISBN: PB: 9780226726861, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical proces...

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America

Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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Political Science

Law

Patent Politics Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe

Parthasarathy Shobita

ISBN: PB: 9780226759135, ISBN: HB: 9780226437859, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality – and de...

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Poetry

Disturbing the Light

Green Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780887486609, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the course of numerous books, Samuel Green has established his primary poetic preoccupations, and in Disturbing the Light, he continues to mine them, addressing rituals and work in a small, isolated, rural community; the influence of the past...

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Poetry

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene Poems

Grumbling Megan

ISBN: PB: 9781946724328, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, October 2020
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene vaults an ancient myth into the age of climate change. In this poetry collection, the goddess of spring now comes and goes erratically, drinks too much, and takes a human lover in our warming, unraveling world. Mea...

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Poetry

Petition

Peseroff Joyce

ISBN: PB: 9780887486616, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From privilege at a gas station to fraud in a memorial grove, Joyce Peseroff follows the faults of indifference and division that crack our impulses toward mercy and love. She nests fragmented tales of the overheard and overlooked – lonely widowers,...

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