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Africa

Political Science

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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Political Science

America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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Photography

Carrie Mae Weems Strategies of Engagement

Lydenberg Robin, Anderson Ash

ISBN: PB: 9781892850331, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, October 2018
225 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 115 colour plates, 30 halftones

Few American artists today are creating work as striking and politically charged as Carrie Mae Weems".Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement" explores a unique body of aesthetically powerful work that is particularly relevant in the context of cu...

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America

Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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Poetry

Coming Out of Nowhere Alaska Homestead Poems

Schandelmeier Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602233607, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us – /became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, /we disappeared into trees – /they clothed usin delirious green. /... We knew the song/ of this place, made it up, / sang it –" Homeste...

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Law

Confident Pluralism Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference

Inazu John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226592435, ISBN: HB: 9780226365459, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, the United States has become increasingly polarized and divided. This fissure is evident across the nation in conflict over LGBTQ rights; in challenges to religious liberty; in clashes over abortion; in tensions between law enforceme...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 47 A Review of Research

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226577043, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1979, the "Crime and Justice" series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series e...

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Fiction

Women Studies

Centrepiece Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India

Singh Parismita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932410, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, June 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, colour illus. throughout

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...

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Christianity

Public Health

Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...

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Other

Cesky, Prosim I Czech for Foreigners

Cvejnova Jitka

ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024615776, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
562 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 98 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! These new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requires no mediating language and thus is id...

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