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Literary Criticism

Weak Planet Literature and Assisted Survival

Dimock Wai Chee

ISBN: PB: 9780226477107, ISBN: HB: 9780226477077, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large-scale hazards of climate change, what can literature...

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Europe

Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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Literary Criticism

Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

Der-Wei Wang David

ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...

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Anthropology

Witch's Hand Curing, Killing, Kinship, and Colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea's River Basin

Mitchell William E.

ISBN: PB: 9781912808458, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2020
500 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Lujere of Papua New Guinea's Upper Sepik River Basin. At a time when it was not yet common to make colonial agencies a subject of anthropological study, Mit...

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Psychology

Anthropology

With the Wind and the Waves A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities

Droby Ray M.

ISBN: PB: 9781602234161, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psy...

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Poetry

wyrd] bird

Stancek Claire Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781632430847, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German m...

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Law

What's Legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights

Mattutat Liza, Nigro Roberto, Schiel Nadine, Stubenrauch Heiko

ISBN: PB: 9783035802436, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the othe...

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America

World Is Always Coming to an End Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

Rotella Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780226759616, ISBN: HB: 9780226624037, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map

An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day – and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people – the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it c...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Why Do Things Have Names?

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783035802757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2020
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Why is a horse called a horse and not a giraffe or a flapdoodle? Why did Plato go from being called Aristocles, after his grandfather, to being called Plato, which means muscleman? Where do any names come from? In this delightful book, readers young...

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Philosophy

Political Science

What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman

Graeber David

ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm

David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...

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