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Anthropology

Cultural Histories of the Material World

Miller Peter N.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792186, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, November 2019
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, "Cultural Histories of the Material World" provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspecti...

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Ancient World

Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

Landauer Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226653792, ISBN: HB: 9780226654010, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an impo...

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History of Art

Diagramming Devotion Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

Hamburger Jeffrey F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226642819, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 183 colour plates, 38 halftones

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such kno...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

Markon Carl

ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone

The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...

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America

Business & Economics

Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Ethics of Space Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England

Grohmann Steph

ISBN: PB: 9781912808281, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2019
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to fin...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Film, Music, Memory

Hoeckner Berthold

ISBN: PB: 9780226649757, ISBN: HB: 9780226649610, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 colour plates, 44 halftones,

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. "Film, Music, Memory" reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audience...

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Fiction

Freedom Fables Satire and Politics in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings

Dutta Kalyani

ISBN: HB: 9789385932489, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2019
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

From the writer of the delightful utopian fantasy "Sultana's Dream" come these witty tales describing the twists and turns of India's two-hundred-year relationship with the Imperial British. Available to contemporary English readers for the first tim...

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Africa

Anthropology

For Money and Elders Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya

Blunt Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226655758, ISBN: HB: 9780226655611, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...

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