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Fiction

Foxy Aesop On the Edge

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789385932427, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Very little is known about Aesop who was supposed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the sixth century BC. It is his fables (and those attributed to him) that have come down to us through the centuries. In this version, a fabulist from...

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Media Studies

Friending the Past The Sense of History in the Digital Age

Liu Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226451954, ISBN: HB: 9780226451817, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones

Can today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the...

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Middle East

Freedom and Despair Notes from the South Hebron Hills

Shulman David

ISBN: PB: 9780226566658, ISBN: HB: 9780226566511, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we...

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Europe

French and Germans, Germans and French A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944

Cobb Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781512603378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
222 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupan...

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Fiction

Fortunate Man

Pontoppidan Henrik

ISBN: PB: 9788763544245, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2018
820 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Per Sidenius seemingly has it all. As the twentieth century dawns, this son of a poor minister has put his sad childhood behind him: he's quickly becoming famous as a forward and freethinking man of the "New Age" and is about to marry a wealthy Jewis...

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Business & Economics

Fighting Financial Crises Learning from the Past

Gorton Gary B., Tallman Ellis W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479514, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close...

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Cookbooks

Fresh Alaska Cookbook

Kinneen Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781602233591, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 63 colour plates

What's for dinner tonight? Is it something shaken from a bag or peeled from a plastic tray? Or is it flaky, fresh salmon paired with rhubarb-berry agua fresca? Alaska Native chef Rob Kinneen is out to revolutionize how Alaskans – and the world – see...

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Political Science

From Politics to the Pews How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity

Margolis Michele F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226555782, ISBN: HB: 9780226555645, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 59 line drawings, 34 tables

One of the most substantial divides in American politics is the "God gap". Religious voters tend to identify with and support the Republican Party, while secular voters generally support the Democratic Party. Conventional wisdom suggests that religio...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Future Remains A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

Mitman Gregg, Armiero Marco, Emmett Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226508795, ISBN: HB: 9780226508658, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 9 halftones

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene – the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects...

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General

Failed Individual Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity

Motyl Katharina, Schober Regina

ISBN: PB: 9783593507828, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
399 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? "The Failed Indivi...

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