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Fiction

Clone

Sarukkai Chabria Priya

ISBN: HB: 9789385932434, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, "The Clone" inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against...

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Biography & Memoires

Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole

Soos Frank, Ehrlander Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781602233805, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflectio...

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History

Scientific Revolution

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226398341, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it". With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now upd...

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Music

Good Music What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Sheinbaum John J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226593388, ISBN: HB: 9780226593241, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 25 line drawings, 8 tables

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music – highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original – and, at the same time, has marginalized musi...

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Music

Trouble with Wagner

Steinberg Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226594194, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 12 halftones

In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of "The Ring of the Nibelung" for t...

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Women Studies

Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation

Sudarshan Ratna, Nandi Rajib

ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...

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Poetry

Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home

Sexton Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602233645, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
60 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"On the night Li Bai tried to embrace the moon / in its fullness on the surface of the Yangtze River, / blossoms scented the air, and beyond the moon / pale stars powdered the sky. That faint shiver / of white near the surface was a dolphin rising. /...

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History of Art

Michelangelo's Sculpture

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226482576, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 127 halftones

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old maste...

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Anthropology

Capturing Imagination A Proposal for an Anthropology of Thought

Severi Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780999157008, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2018
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 95 colour plates

We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human charact...

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Philosophy

Care and Cure An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

Stegenga Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226595030, ISBN: HB: 9780226590813, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and "Care and Cure" is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferenc...

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