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Performing Arts

Witches Vanish

Barnett Claudia

ISBN: PB: 9780887486654, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In a series of stylized, highly visual vignettes employing puppetry, poetry, and surrealism, the Weird Sisters from Macbeth explore the stories of women who disappear, whether by choice or force. Inspired by history, astronomy, and Shakespeare, Witch...

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Poetry

Wonderama Poems

Doty Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9781933880822, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2021
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Wonderama is a collection of cinematic, surprising, and at times harrowing poems that capture 1960s Paterson, New Jersey, as experienced by the poorest, most vulnerable children living there. With candor, ferocity, and stunning imagery, Catherine Dot...

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Literary Criticism

Chastity Plot

During Lisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226741468, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Chastity Plot", Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been...

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Architecture

Choosing Architecture Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century

Van Gerrewey Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782889153299, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major subject of public discussion, considered and argued about not just by architects or residents, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an ov...

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Anthropology

Museum in the Cultural Sciences Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century

Miller Peter N.

ISBN: HB: 9781941792162, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2021
394 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In early twentieth-century Berlin, Wilhelm von Bode sparked a controversy with his sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Debates about the role and structure of museums played out in 1907 and 1910 with two striking series of...

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America

City Creative The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America

Carriere Michael H., Schalliol David

ISBN: HB: 9780226727226, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 145 colour plates

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking – small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projec...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 49 Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks

Tonry Michael, Reuter Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226722832, ISBN: HB: 9780226708393, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Anthropology

Between the Sun and Snow Writing at the End of the Century

Nieves Myrna

ISBN: PB: 9781940939384, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2021
225 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 45 halftones

"Entre el sol y la nieve: escritos de fin de siglo / Between the Sun and Snow: Writing at the End of the Century" presents a collection of selected newspaper articles by writer, cultural activist, and educator Myrna Nieves. The articles in this bilin...

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Astronomy

Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...

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