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Women Studies

Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora? The Story of a Mass Rape

Mushtaq Samreen, Batool Essar, Rather Natasha, Butt Ifrah, Rashid Munaza

ISBN: PB: 9789384757663, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2016
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. Incensed at the villagers' refusal to share any information, soldiers pulled...

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Evolution

Debating Darwin

Richards Robert J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226384429, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a s...

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Anthropology

Displaying Death and Animating Life Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life

Desmond Jane C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144061, ISBN: HB: 9780226144054, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have co...

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Biography & Memoires

Doing Time with Nehru The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family

Marsh Yin

ISBN: PB: 9789384757809, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 10 halftones, 8 line drawings, 10 maps

It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in! Get on the floor!" A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men, disappearing into the night. This scenario is the...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Dolphin Confidential Confessions of a Field Biologist

Bearzi Maddalena

ISBN: PB: 9780226418605, ISBN: HB: 9780226040158, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 71 line illus.

Who hasn't fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? We need not live this solely in our imaginations anymore. With "Dolphin Confidential" Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore-bound dreamers...

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Political Science

Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries

Mukherjee Bumba

ISBN: PB: 9780226358819, ISBN: HB: 9780226358789, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 36 line drawings, 27 tables

Since the 1970s, two major trends have emerged among developing countries: the rise of new democracies and the rush to free trade. For some, the confluence of these events suggests that a free-market economy complements a fledgling democracy. Others...

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History of Art

Deaths of Henri Regnault

Gotlieb Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780226276045, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 48 colour plates, 77 halftones

This is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843-71), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siecle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands, Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut shor...

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Literary Criticism

Dante and the Limits of the Law

Steinberg Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780226362069, ISBN: HB: 9780226071091, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In "Dante and the Limits of the Law", Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's "Divine Comedy". Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdi...

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Travel

Dolce far niente in Arabia Georg August Wallin and His Travels in the 1840s

Berg Patricia, Haggman Sofia, Ohrnberg Kaj, Hameen-Anttila Jaakko, Palva Heikki

ISBN: PB: 9788763543040, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2015
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone, 7 maps

In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey...

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Poetry

Disorder

Pravin Vanesha

ISBN: PB: 9780226235363, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
88 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

Midsummer Cambridge, MA, 2008 Midsummer. Finally, you are used to disappointment. A baby touches phlox. Many failures, many botched attempts, A little success in unexpected forms. This is how the rest will go: The gravel raked, bricks ashen, bees fat...

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