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Culture Studies
Cartoon Art
Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
Kripal Jeffrey J.
ISBN: PB: 9780226271484, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
376 pp., 21.5x15 cm, 60 colour illus.
In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men", th...
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Ancient World
Culture Studies
Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
Kaster Robert A.
ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.
The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...
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Culture Studies
Melancholia's Dog Reflections on Our Animal Kinship
Kuzniar Alice A.
ISBN: PB: 9780226102702, ISBN: HB: 9780226465784, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cr...
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World
Culture Studies
Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
Klemek Christopher
ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones
"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...
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Performing Arts
Culture Studies
Nippon Wars and Other Plays
Kawamura Takeshi
ISBN: PB: 9780857420022, Seagull Books, August 2011
390 pp., 19x15 cm, 20 halftones
"Nippon Wars and Other Plays" provides a unique and fascinating window into the last thirty years of Japan's dynamic theater scene. This collection of plays from renowned Japanese theater artist Takeshi Kawamura gathers together for the first time in...
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Anthropology
Culture Studies
Imagining the Urban Sanskrit and the City in Early India
Kaul Shonaleeka
ISBN: HB: 9781906497811, Seagull Books, March 2011
278 pp., 22.4x15 cm
In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics – both physical and social – of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit kavyas to see what India's early historic ci...
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Culture Studies
Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe Between Market and Laboratory
Klein Ursula, Spary E. C.
ISBN: HB: 9780226439686, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables, 21 halftones
It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe", the labor...
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Jewish Studies
Culture Studies
Offence: The Jewish Case
Klug Brian
ISBN: HB: 9781906497392, Seagull Books, September 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with the "Index on Censorship" that deals with religion and free expression, "The Jewish Case" is distinctive in several ways. To begin with, even calling Judaism a religion is problematic. The bread...
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Culture Studies
Popular and the Public Cultural Debates and Struggles over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe
Kaarsholm Preben, Hofmeyr Isabel
ISBN: PB: 9781905422876, ISBN: HB: 9781905422869, Seagull Books, March 2009
286 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 12 halftones
"The Popular and the Public" brings together a range of international scholars to examine how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe. A diver...
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Performing Arts
Culture Studies
Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods The Ramlila of Ramnagar
Kapur Anuradha
ISBN: PB: 9781905422203, ISBN: HB: 9781905422197, Seagull Books, June 2006
258 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 62 halftones
The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Men, women and children follow the course of th...
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