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Biography & Memoires
Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life
Bano Saeeda
ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...
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Women Studies
Biography & Memoires
Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin
El Saadawi Nawal
ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...
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Philosophy
Opening of the American Mind Ten Years of The Point
ISBN: PB: 9780226738710, ISBN: HB: 9780226735801, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for though...
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History
Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences
Spary E. C., Zilberstein Anya
ISBN: PB: 9780226726861, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical proces...
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Education
Other Boston Busing Story What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line
Eaton Susan E.
ISBN: PB: 9781684580293, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing wi...
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Anthropology
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
Ginzburg Carlo, Lincoln Bruce
ISBN: PB: 9780226674414, ISBN: HB: 9780226674384, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables
In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God", fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches,...
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Women Studies
Of Mothers and Others Stories, Essays, Poems
Misra Jaishree
ISBN: HB: 9789381017869, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
284 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself, writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduction to this unique volume. We neglect mothers at our own peril, at the peril of society. If we are to l...
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Literary Criticism
Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space
Kornbluh Anna
ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings
In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...
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Business & Economics
Out of Stock The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
Orenstein Dara
ISBN: PB: 9780226662909, ISBN: HB: 9780226662879, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones
In "Out of Stock", Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century's bonded warehouses...
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History
Osiris, Volume 34 Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science 
Rees Amanda, Rhys Morus Iwan
ISBN: PB: 9780226680415, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume of "Osiris" focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling –...
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