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Middle East

Africa

Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994

Clarno Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226430096, ISBN: HB: 9780226429922, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and...

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Nutrition

Nutrition for a Better Life A Journey from the Origins of Industrial Food Production to Nutrigenomics

Brabeck-Letmathe Peter

ISBN: HB: 9783593505978, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm, 6 line drawings

Immense advances in the life sciences have deepened our understanding of the connection between nutrition and health, revealing that we can effectively improve our health and quality of life by redesigning our diet on a scientific basis. In "Nutritio...

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Contemporary Art

No New Kind of Duck Would I Know How to Say What I Do?

Verwoert Jan

ISBN: PB: 9783037349465, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 19x13.3 cm, 90 colour plates

What do we learn by making art? What do we discover by discussing our art with other people? These are the questions at the heart of "No New Kind of Duck", which documents an exchange between Jan Verwoert and artists, critics, and other researchers a...

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Political Science

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

Pram Gad Ulrik

ISBN: PB: 9788763545020, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, January 2017
148 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 3 halftones, 5 figures

Though it's many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It's a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated...

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America

New Math A Political History

Phillips Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421490, ISBN: HB: 9780226184968, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 196...

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Business & Economics

Negotiated Reform The Multilevel Governance of Financial Regulation

Mayntz Renate

ISBN: PB: 9783593505510, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
193 pp., 21.4x14 cm, 9 tables

Multilevel structures are becoming increasingly characteristic of the world in which we live. This book is a unique study of policy making in a multilevel political system extending from the national to the international level. Taking as its subject...

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Fiction

Norte A Novel

Paz Soldan Edmundo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207209, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico-US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they mee...

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Film Studies

Nollywood The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Haynes Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226387956, ISBN: HB: 9780226387819, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 tables

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, p...

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Colouring Books for Adults

Nature's Portraits A Coloring Book of Scales, Tails, Furs, and Wings

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: PB: 9780226431550, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
128 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 60 halftones

When it comes to color, nothing can surpass the vast palette found in nature, from a bright green leaf in a sun-dappled forest to the rich red feathers of a cardinal and the muted greens, ambers, and browns that make up the shell of a tortoise. Wildl...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)

Bennett W. Lance

ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...

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