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Political Science

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Anthropology

Life at Swift Water Place Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact

Anderson Doug D., Anderson Wanni W.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233683, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
400 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 130 halftones

This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in th...

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Poetry

Locus

Bayani Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781632430632, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Life in a multicultural, multiethnic nation like the United States leads to complicated, sometimes fragmented experiences of our background and identity. In "Locus", Jason Bayani's poetry explores the experience of identity that haunts Philipinx-Amer...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Les Amphibiens du Nord de Madagascar

Andreone Franco, Crottini Angelica, Rosa Goncalo M., Rakotoarison Andolalao, Scherz Mark D., Raselimanana Achille P.

ISBN: PB: 9782953892376, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, March 2019
355 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 327 colour plates

The island of Madagascar hosts a large number of frogs with at least 315 described species, and many others still to be named. Northern Madagascar is rich in species, due to the heterogeneity of landscapes, including a large number of habitat types a...

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Business & Economics

Land of Milk and Butter How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry

Lampe Markus, Sharp Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226549507, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 29 line drawings, 25 tables

How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural c...

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History

Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

Rader Karen A., Cain Victoria E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...

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Music

Let's Make a Better World Stories and Songs by Jane Sapp

Sapp Jane, Cohen Cynthia

ISBN: PB: 9781512603552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2019
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jane Sapp is a nationally admired cultural worker, musician, educator, and activist whose approach to social transformation is rooted in African American musical traditions and made available here as a resource for communities around the world. Jane...

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Anthropology

Logic of Invention

Wagner Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780999157053, University of Chicago Press, HAU, January 2019
135 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this long-awaited sequel to "The Invention of Culture", Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible,...

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Jewish Studies

Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Rabinowitz Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781512603095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed...

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Poetry

Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home

Sexton Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602233645, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon / in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, / blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon / pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver / of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. /...

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