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Asia

Roy Tirthankar, Swamy Anand V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226387642, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 8 line drawings, 15 tables

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enfor...

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Poetry

Life Pig

Shapiro Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226404172, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm

From "Let Me Hear You": Outside is inside now The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into...

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Other

America

Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

Howe Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...

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Children's Books

Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe

Peratrovich Roy A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232952, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 line illus., 1 map

Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father's canoe... and soon finds himself caught in the middle of a wild seastorm. The story carries him far from his home village, and when he makes land, he winds up right in th...

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History of Art

Live Form Women, Ceramics, and Community

Sorkin Jenni

ISBN: HB: 9780226303116, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 70 halftones

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those found in other creative mediums".Live Form" shines new light on the relation of ceram...

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Europe

Light in Germany Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

Reed T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421834, ISBN: HB: 9780226205106, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, Jim Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-ce...

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Europe

Latest Catastrophe History, the Present, the Contemporary

Rousso Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226165233, ISBN: HB: 9780226165066, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they th...

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Anthropology

Legacies, Logics, Logistics Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy

Guyer Jane I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326870, ISBN: HB: 9780226326733, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Legacies, Logics, Logistics" brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined...

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Music

Anthropology

Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

Glasser Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...

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Fashion

Little Black Dress From Mourning to Night

Meyer Shannon

ISBN: PB: 9781883982843, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2016
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 75 colour plates

What's the most important garment in a woman's closet? More often than not, the answer is "the little black dress". For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion crisis. Dressed up or down, with fl...

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