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Anthropology

From Hospitality to Grace A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus

Pitt-Rivers Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780986132520, University of Chicago Press, HAU, December 2017
410 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus" brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes...

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History

From Sight to Light The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics

Mark Smith A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528571, ISBN: HB: 9780226174761, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 58 line drawings

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its...

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Europe

Medieval

Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

Champion Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...

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Popular Science

Final Story Science, Myth, and Beginnings

Zakariya Nasser

ISBN: HB: 9780226476124, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Popular science readers embrace epics – the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wi...

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Anthropology

Fragmente des Sog".Sothisrituals" von Oxyrhynchos aus Tebtynis

Topfer Susanne

ISBN: HB: 9788763543644, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
211 pp., 31.8x21.6 cm

The book contains the edition of a hieratic written text from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the 1st – 2nd century AD. The ritual text is a compilation of fumigation and libation spells for the main deities of the designed ritual place, the P...

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Music

Flip the Script European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

Rollefson J. Griffith

ISBN: PB: 9780226496214, ISBN: HB: 9780226496184, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it...

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Biography & Memoires

From Cork to Calcutta My Mother's Story

Bose Milty

ISBN: PB: 9789384757632, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass – a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thinks she has her life completely mapped out. He...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Fray Art and Textile Politics

Bryan-Wilson Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226077819, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour plates, 62 halftones

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile mak...

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General

Feminist Subversion and Complicity Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

Mukhopadhyay Maitrayee

ISBN: HB: 9789385932168, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Feminist Subversion and Complicity" brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy...

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Business & Economics

Fama Portfolio Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama

Fama Eugene F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426846, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
584 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innov...

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