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Literary Criticism

Linguistics

Enumerations Data and Literary Study

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Edi Hila

de Chassey Eric, Mytkowska Joanna, Rhomberg Kathrin, Shkololli Erzen

ISBN: PB: 9788364177538, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2018
148 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 68 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! This catalog accompanies "Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation", the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila's eyes, the Ea...

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Anthropology

Ethnobotany of Eden Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative

Voeks Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226547718, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones

In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect the...

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Political Science

General

Emotions of Protest

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables

In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...

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Europe

Exile in London The Experience of Czechoslovakia and the Other Occupied Nations, 1939-1945

Smetana Vit, Geaney Kathleen Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9788024637013, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historian...

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Poetry

Everything I Kept Todo Lo Que Guarde

Behar Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780997228724, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, May 2018
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, language: English / Spanish, 10 halftones

Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we...

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Fiction

Elephant in the Room Women Draw Their World

ISBN: HB: 9789385932243, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
240 pp., 24.1x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that is similar and different across cultures. In the striking, surprising, often funny drawings featured he...

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General

Education

Education in a New Society Renewing the Sociology of Education

Mehta Jal, Davies Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226517421, ISBN: HB: 9780226517391, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 tables

In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there's no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of in...

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History

Epochs of Nature

Leclerc Georges-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226395432, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's "The Epochs of Nature", originally published as "Les Epoques de la Nature" in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of R...

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America

Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

LaChance Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...

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