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America

Origins of the Dual City Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago

Rast Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226661582, ISBN: HB: 9780226661445, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city", a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel...

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Literary Criticism

On Interpretive Conflict

Frow John

ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings

"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...

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Literary Criticism

Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Tatschner Florian

ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...

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Philosophy

On Obliteration An Interview with Francoise Armengaud Concerning the Work of Sacha Sosno

Levinas Emmanuel

ISBN: PB: 9783035801446, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2019
108 pp., 19x11.4 cm, 15 halftones

Emmanuel Levinas's interview with Francoise Armengaud in 1988 is one of the only statements we have from the philosopher, who became influential in various disciplines through his ethics that focuses on the fine arts specifically. Presented in Englis...

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Law

Outbreak Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety

Lytton Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226611686, ISBN: HB: 9780226611549, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 2 tables

Foodborne illness is a big problem. Wash those chicken breasts, and you're likely to spread Salmonella to your countertops, kitchen towels, and other foods nearby. Even salad greens can become biohazards when toxic strains of E. coli inhabit the wate...

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Poetry

Of Darkness and Light Poems by Kim Cornwall

Erd Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781602233744, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
50 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

This is the hardest kind of listening. / And who will care? / Most do not. / It's all applause, / applause applause. / How is it possible / to ask for more than that? An honest work, stunningly passionate: Kim Cornwall's spirit-infused poetry weaves...

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Psychiatry

On the Heels of Ignorance Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing

Whooley Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780226616384, ISBN: HB: 9780226616247, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new book tell us, the h...

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Performing Arts

Operatic Geographies The Place of Opera and the Opera House

Aspden Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226596013, ISBN: HB: 9780226595962, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as throug...

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Military

Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

O'Connell Aaron B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...

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Criminology

On the Outside Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration

Harding David J., Morenoff Jeffrey D., Wyse Jessica J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226607641, ISBN: HB: 9780226607504, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 8 tables

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin society each year".On the Outside" examines the lives of twe...

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