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Anthropology

Art of Mbira Musical Inheritance and Legacy

Berliner Paul F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226628684, ISBN: HB: 9780226628547, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...

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Literary Criticism

Arts of Dying Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

Smith D. Vance

ISBN: PB: 9780226640990, ISBN: HB: 9780226640853, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory – but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone...

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Philosophy

Being Me Being You Adam Smith and Empathy

Fleischacker Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226661896, ISBN: HB: 9780226661759, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. But how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker de...

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Fiction

Big Familia A Novel

Moniz Tomas

ISBN: PB: 9781946724229, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, November 2019
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Big Familia" follows Juan Gutierrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his f...

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Music

Bitten by the Blues The Alligator Records Story

Iglauer Bruce, Roberts Patrick A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226681986, ISBN: HB: 9780226129907, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago...

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America

Great River City How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis

Wanko Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781883982959, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
240 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 151 colour plates, 199 halftone

For St. Louis, the Mississippi has always been more than just a river. It's been the focus of the local economy, a shaping force on millions of lives, and a mirror for the city's triumphs, embarrassments, joys, and tragedies. Through fifty-six snapsh...

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Poetry

Brightword

Burwick Kimberly

ISBN: PB: 9780887486517, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, November 2019
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Though none of us can predict our own futures, there are distinctive factors – individual and collective – that may forcibly turn our attention toward the uncertain. In the poems in Brightword the speaker, a mother, contemplates the microcosm and ma...

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Cartography

Europe

Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....

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Business & Economics

CEO Leadership Navigating the New Era in Corporate Governance

Cole Thomas A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226665160, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Corporate governance for public companies in the United States today is a fragile balance between shareholders, board members, and CEOs. Shareholders, who are focused on profits, put pressure on boards, who are accountable for operations and profitab...

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Literary Criticism

Character Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

Anderson Amanda, Felski Rita, Moi Toril

ISBN: PB: 9780226658667, ISBN: HB: 9780226658520, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, "Character"...

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