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Political Science

Ginsburg Tom, Huq Aziz Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226755076, ISBN: HB: 9780226564388, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of p...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Hieratic Texts from Tebtunis

Ryholt Kim

ISBN: HB: 9788763546768, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates

This book contains a selection of hieratic texts from the ancient town of Tebtunis – hymns and litanies, rituals of protection, a mythological narrative, scholarly compositions, and documentary texts – as well as a survey of illustrated papyri.Nearly...

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Judaism

Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World

Mayse Ariel, Berrin Shonkoff Sam, Mayse Ariel Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...

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Political Science

Herodotus in the Anthropocene

Alden Schlosser Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226704845, ISBN: HB: 9780226704708, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative polit...

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Sign Language

Hearing Happiness Deafness Cures in History

Virdi Jaipreet

ISBN: HB: 9780226690612, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her...

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Sport

Hard Driving The 1908 Auto Race From New York to Paris

Cole Dermot

ISBN: PB: 9781602234024, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones, 1 map

In the winter of 1908, six cars left Times Square bound for Paris. They were embarking on a remarkable motor race across the world that would capture everyone's imagination. In this book, Dermot Cole weaves a thrilling account of the improbable journ...

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Genetics

Heredity under the Microscope Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome

de Chadarevian Soraya

ISBN: PB: 9780226685113, ISBN: HB: 9780226685083, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

By focusing on chromosomes, "Heredity under the Microscope" offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twe...

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Fiction

Heartland Calamitous

Credico Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781938769535, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
128 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Emerging from deep in America's hinterland, Michael Credico's flash fiction portrays an absurdist, exaggerated, and bizarre vision of the Midwest known as the heartland. The stories are clipped views into a land filled with slippery confusion and cha...

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Poetry

Habitat Threshold

Santos Perez Craig

ISBN: PB: 9781632430809, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 4 graphs

With "Habitat Threshold", Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of...

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Philosophy

Hegel's Realm of Shadows Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic"

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703411, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, "The Science of Logic". This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists ca...

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