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Media Studies

Mind Abuse Media Violence and Its Threat to Democracy

Dyson Rose A.

ISBN: PB: 9781551647326, ISBN: HB: 9781551647333, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Although rogue elements on the internet have spawned concerns about foreign interference in elections, invasion of privacy, and the impact of hate speech, most people are still in denial about the harmful effects of media violence as entertainment. T...

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Cartography

Mantle of the Earth Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor

della Dora Veronica

ISBN: HB: 9780226741291, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 71 halftones

The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between t...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Durand Pierre M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...

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Judaism

Jewish Question Again

Dalsheim Joyce, Starrett Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781734643503, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anti-Semitism is on the rise. How is this still possible? Once again, we are witness to a surge in right-wing authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and white supremacism, and the racist, xenophobic, and misogynist violence they spread. Like historic ne...

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Biography & Memoires

Lady Ranelagh The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister

DiMeo Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780226731605, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patro...

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Music

Comedians of the King "Opera-Comique" and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution

Doe Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226743257, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 16 halftones, 28 line drawings, 5 tables

Opera in ancien regime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragedie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opera comique, a theatrical form tracing its roots to the...

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Literary Criticism

Radium of the Word A Poetics of Materiality

Dworkin Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226743561, ISBN: HB: 9780226743424, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to the forms of words rather than to their denotations...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Queer Legacies Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives

D'Emilio John

ISBN: PB: 9780226727530, ISBN: HB: 9780226664972, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The variety of gay life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse, to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerbert/Hart Library & Archives on the city's North Side has strived to do just that, amassing and cataloging a wealth of recor...

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General

Dynastic Imagination Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Daub Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226737874, ISBN: HB: 9780226737737, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mec...

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Biography & Memoires

Leonardo Balada A Transatlantic Gaze

de Dios Juan Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780887486630, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 117 halftones

Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze tells the story of how composer Leonardo Balada journeyed from a childhood and youth overshadowed by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath of "the years of hunger" to a new life as a budding com...

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