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Anthropology

Living in the Stone Age Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy

Rutherford Danilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226570242, ISBN: HB: 9780226570105, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as "living, as it were, in the Stone Age". For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people "primitive", but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists...

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Literary Criticism

Loving Literature A Cultural History

Lynch Deidre Shauna

ISBN: PB: 9780226598390, ISBN: HB: 9780226183701, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common – and perhaps the most wounding – is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studi...

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Contemporary Art

Learning from Madness Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art

Cabanas Kaira Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226556284, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 halftones

Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the "art of the insane" that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s...

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Contemporary Art

Legible – Visible Between the Film Frame and the Page

Davila Mela, Munoz Maite

ISBN: PB: 9788494423437, University of Chicago Press, Tenov Books, September 2018
124 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 214 halftones

"Legible – Visible" explores the relationship between print publications and audio-visual documents, two of the most important media in the social and cultural landscape of our time – and two forms that also define the evolution of contemporary art i...

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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon

Henke Miriam, Lee Schnee Jordan

ISBN: HB: 9783035800968, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Political Science

Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226566825, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible o...

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Africa

General

Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands

Ryan Chance Kerry

ISBN: PB: 9780226519661, ISBN: HB: 9780226519524, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In "Living Politics", Kerry Ryan Chance radically fl...

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Law

Lawsuits in a Market Economy The Evolution of Civil Litigation

Yeazell Stephen C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226546391, ISBN: HB: 9780226546254, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings

Some describe civil litigation as little more than a drag on the economy; Others hail it as the solution to most of the country's problems. Stephen C. Yeazell argues that both positions are wrong. Deeply embedded in our political and economic systems...

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Fiction

Land of My Fathers

Sherif Vamba

ISBN: HB: 9781908446541, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the nineteenth century with the triumphant return of freed slaves from America to Africa. Once back "home," however, these Americo-Liberians had to integrate into the resident tribes – who did not necessar...

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