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Philosophy

Secret Body Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226679082, ISBN: HB: 9780226126821, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour illus.

Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves...

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Fiction

Spider Love Song and Other Stories

Au Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781946724205, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2019
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Nancy Au's debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align, whose spirits attempt flight...

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Music

Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks

Yearsley David

ISBN: HB: 9780226617701, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 35 line drawings, 2 tables

At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-1760) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her cont...

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Ecology

Stockholm Paradigm Climate Change and Emerging Disease

Brooks Daniel R., Hoberg Eric P., Boeger Walter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226632445, ISBN: HB: 9780226632308, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 40 line drawings

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and era...

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Geriatrics

Law

Speaking for the Dying Life-and-Death Decisions in Intensive Care

Shapiro Susan P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226615745, ISBN: HB: 9780226615608, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings, 13 tables

Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions – literally – will therefore be made by someone el...

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Buddhism

Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Jaffe Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226391151, ISBN: HB: 9780226391144, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 1 table

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated "Seeking Sakyamuni", Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the...

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Literary Criticism

Some Words of Jane Austen

Tave Stuart M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226633398, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Jane Austen's readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and expla...

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Music

Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis

Christensen Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226626925, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 76 halftones

"Stories of Tonality in the Age of Francois-Joseph Fetis" explores the concept of musical tonality through the writings of the Belgian musicologist Francois-Joseph Fetis (1784-1867), who was singularly responsible for theorizing and popularizing the...

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History

Synthesizing Hope Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery

Pollock Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780226629186, ISBN: HB: 9780226629049, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Synthesizing Hope" opens up the material and social world of pharmaceuticals by focusing on an unexpected place: iThemba Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2009 with a name taken from the Zulu word for hope, the small South African startup with an elite in...

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Law

Search for Justice Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975

Hoffer Peter Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226614311, ISBN: HB: 9780226614281, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hol...

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