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Music

Musical Vitalities Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music

Watkins Holly

ISBN: HB: 9780226594705, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings

Does it make sense to refer to bird song – a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate – as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire r...

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Gender Studies

Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders

Mai Nicola

ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...

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Medieval

Europe

Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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Music

Message to Our Folks The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Steinbeck Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226418094, ISBN: HB: 9780226375960, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique perf...

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Poetry

My Bishop and Other Poems

Collier Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226570860, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Think of a time when you've feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when we need them most? The poems of this collection expl...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx's Dream From Capitalism to Communism

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226554525, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With "Marx's Dream", Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed a...

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Performing Arts

Melodramatic Moment Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820

Hambridge Katherine G., Hicks Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226543659, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look – from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in "Pandora's Box" to the vicissitudes endlessly re...

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Ecology

Make It Rain State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America

Harper Kristine C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597928, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 4 tables

Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenome...

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Cartography

Map Men Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

Seegel Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226438498, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones

More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In "Map Men", Steven Seegel takes us through some of t...

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Europe

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Ira Jaroslav, Janac Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024635903, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...

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