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Film Studies

Dance of Values Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project

Vogman Elena

ISBN: PB: 9783035801088, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
240 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 30 halftones

Sergei Eisenstein's cinematic adaptation of Karl Marx's "Capital" was never realized, yet it has haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and philosophers to the present day".Dance of Values" aims to conjure the phantom of Eisenstein's...

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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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Architecture

America

Design for the Crowd Patriotism and Protest in Union Square

Merwood-Salisbury Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226080826, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 43 halftones

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighbo...

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Photography

Europe

Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945

Meltzer Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9780226625638, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 41 halftones

The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgivenes...

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Anthropology

Deadline Populism and the Press in Venezuela

Samet Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226633732, ISBN: HB: 9780226633565, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation....

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Jewish Studies

Days of Awe Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians

Omer Atalia

ISBN: PB: 9780226616070, ISBN: HB: 9780226615912, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegi...

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Political Science

America

Democracy and Dysfunction

Levinson Sanford, Balkin Jack M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226612041, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on...

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Poetry

Devonte Travels the Sorry Route

Anderson III T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9781632430670, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Devonte, the eponymous subject of the poems in "Devonte Travels the Sorry Route", has a gift: he can travel across space and time. This extraordinary quality brings Devonte into contact with a broad array of events and phenomena from black history an...

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Fiction

During-the-Event

Wall Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781602233829, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For D. E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same".During-the-Event" is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the...

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Ecology

Discerning Experts The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy

Oppenheimer Michael, Oreskes Naomi, Jamieson Dale, Brysse Keynyn, O'Reilly Jessica, Shindell Matthew, Wazeck Milena

ISBN: PB: 9780226602011, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 11 tables

"Discerning Experts" assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors exp...

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