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America

Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226682037, ISBN: HB: 9780226433486, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that a Senator – Republican or Democrat – would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vanden...

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Cartography

America

Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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Philosophy

Education

Between / Beyond / Hybrid New Essays on Transdisciplinarity

von Sass Hartmut

ISBN: PB: 9783035801743, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

For years now, academics worldwide have been pushing for more interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Yet for all that, the very concept of transdisciplinarity has proved remarkably tough to define, let alone to enact. This book brings together...

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Poetry

Civil Bound

Mi Kim Myung

ISBN: PB: 9781632430717, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

In "Civil Bound", Myung Mi Kim turns a keen ear to language as the mechanism by which society operates. The poems engage multiple methods to make sense of this pervasive tool, its powers, nuances, and influences over the structure of our civilization...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Contesting Leviathan Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict

Beldo Les

ISBN: PB: 9780226657400, ISBN: HB: 9780226657370, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes

Austen Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226655444, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit a...

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Literary Criticism

Daily Sherlock Holmes A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World's Greatest Detective

Doyle Arthur Conan

ISBN: PB: 9780226659640, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 18.4x11.4 cm

"Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes", said Stamford, introducing us."How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive". "How on earth did you kno...

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General

Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World

Ogborn Miles

ISBN: PB: 9780226657684, ISBN: HB: 9780226655925, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in "The Freedom of Speech", across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction b...

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Business & Economics

Asia

Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Winter Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

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Poetry

Harpo Before the Opus

Fry Logan

ISBN: PB: 9781632430748, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture. Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility. Here we find Harpo, reaching into the fr...

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