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Poetry

Beachy-Quick Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781632430700, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Acting as poetic records of light, the poems in "Variations on Dawn and Dusk" follow the sun as it warms, cools, colors, and shifts the space of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) in the desert of Marfa, TX. Built on the footprint of the town's o...

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Media Studies

View from Somewhere Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity

Raven Wallace Lewis

ISBN: HB: 9780226589176, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

#MeToo. #BlackLivesMatter. #NeverAgain. #WontBeErased. Though both the right- and left-wing media claim "objectivity" in their reporting of these and other contentious issues, the American public has become increasingly cynical about truth, fact, and...

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Business & Economics

Capital in the Nineteenth Century

Gallman Robert E., Rhode Paul W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226633114, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 line drawings, 132 tables

When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926-1998) gathered...

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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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America

Polonica

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...

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Architecture

America

Design for the Crowd Patriotism and Protest in Union Square

Merwood-Salisbury Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226080826, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 43 halftones

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighbo...

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Contemporary Art

America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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Political Science

Authoritarian Apprehensions Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

Wedeen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226650609, ISBN: HB: 9780226650579, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 6 line drawings

If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In "Authoritarian Apprehensi...

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Biography & Memoires

Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe

Jakiela Lori

ISBN: PB: 9781938769429, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2019
290 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm

After her adoptive mother's death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. In the midst of this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family's medical history to gather answers for he...

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History

Beyond the Laboratory Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America

Kuznick Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676203, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
374 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The debate over scientists' social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and...

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