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Literary Criticism

That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration

Shapiro Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226416953, ISBN: HB: 9780226416816, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

More than a gathering of essays, "That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration" is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written....

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Media Studies

That's the Way It Is A History of Television News in America

Ponce de Leon Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421520, ISBN: HB: 9780226472454, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charl...

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Christianity

To Care for Creation The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement

Ellingson Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226367385, ISBN: HB: 9780226367248, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV". The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as...

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Cultural Studies

Taste for Provence

Lefkowitz Horowitz Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780226322841, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 16 halftones

Provence today is a state of mind as much as a region of France, promising clear skies and bright sun, gentle breezes scented with lavender and wild herbs, scenery alternately bold and intricate, and delicious foods served alongside heady wines. Yet,...

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Photography

To See Without Being Seen Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare

Braunert Svea, Malone Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780936316413, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, April 2016
96 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 86 colour plates

We are in the dawn of the drone age, a turning point in history when the United States and other countries are increasingly using unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor behavior, collect data, conduct surveillance, and wage wars. As the ubiquitous visio...

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Film Studies

Two Weeks in the Midday Sun A Cannes Notebook

Ebert Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226314433, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 43 line drawings

A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert – with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb – achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to...

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Poetry

That Kind of Happy

Dietz Maggie

ISBN: PB: 9780226349398, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"October Aubade" If I slept too long, forgive me. A north wind quickened the window frames so the room pitched like a moving train and the pillow's whiff of hickory and shaving soap conjured your body beside me. So I slept in the berth as th...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 29

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226338248, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in Volume 29 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the taxation-related research by NBER research associates, both in terms of methodological approach and in terms of topics. In the first paper, former NBER Pr...

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Education

Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation

Laats Adam, Siegel Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780226331300, ISBN: HB: 9780226331270, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Tourist Attractions Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy

Mitchell Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226309101, ISBN: HB: 9780226309071, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In "Tourist Attractions", Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that foc...

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