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Fiction

Rockabilly

Wilson Mike

ISBN: PB: 9783035800975, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2018
80 pp., 22.2x14 cm

When a meteor crashes into greaser Rockabilly's backyard, a ripple of strange events ensues. The tattoo of a pin-up girl on his back comes to life and begins to exert her murderous control over the suburb in which he lives. His precocious teenage nei...

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Anthropology

Reluctant Landscapes Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal

Richard Francois G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226252544, ISBN: HB: 9780226252407, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 11 tables

West African history is inseparable from the history of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. According to historical archaeologist Francois Richard, however, the dominance of this narrative not only colors the range of political discourse about...

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Education

Reference

Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators for Elementary and Secondary Schools Eighty-Third Edition, 2018-2019

Frankhart Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226578781, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This annual volume offers the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels".Requirements for Certification" is a valuable resource, making...

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Linguistics

Revealing Structure

Buckley Eugene, Crane Thera, Good Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9781684000296, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2018
292 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Drawing from a wide range of perspectives in the analysis of grammatical structures, the papers collected in this book are unified not by linguistic subfield, but by the investigative method they employ in revealing grammatical patterns".Revealing St...

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Law

Media Studies

Reclaiming Fair Use How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (Second Edition)

Aufderheide Patricia, Jaszi Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226374192, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied...

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Poetry

Recalculating

Bernstein Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226564722, ISBN: HB: 9780226925288, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Long anticipated, "Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first full-length collection of new poems in seven years. As a result of this lengthy time under construction, the scope, scale, and stylistic variation of the poems far surpasses Bernstein's p...

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Political Science

Reclaiming Accountability Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution

Kitrosser Heidi

ISBN: PB: 9780226565675, ISBN: HB: 9780226191638, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, esp...

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Literary Criticism

Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

Whittier Treat John

ISBN: PB: 9780226545134, ISBN: HB: 9780226811703, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature" tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten...

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History

Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Riskin Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226528267, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 51 halftones

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...

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Christianity

Reclaiming Catherine of Siena Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others

Tylus Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226529103, ISBN: HB: 9780226821283, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political, and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no...

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