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Poetry

Lives Brought to Life 20 Years of Literature of Emotion and Everyday Life

Cusack Handler Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780967885636, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human throug...

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Political Science

America

Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive

Christenson Dino P., Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704364, ISBN: HB: 9780226704227, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 23 tables

Throughout the history of the United States, the nation's presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts. Using such tools as executive orders and memoranda, presidents have taken the country to war, abolished...

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Political Science

Economic Other Inequality in the American Political Imagination

Condon Meghan, Wichowsky Amber

ISBN: PB: 9780226691879, ISBN: HB: 9780226691732, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a...

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Criminology

Other

Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad

Crosson J. Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...

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Poetry

Set in Stone

Carey Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781933880792, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Set in Stone", Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremonies. Carey writes poetry for the everyperson, poetry that deals with memory, loss, and nostalgia in an accessible and honest way. These poems tell stori...

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Christianity

Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood

Clevenger Casey Ritchie

ISBN: PB: 9780226697550, ISBN: HB: 9780226697413, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 3 tables

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquartered in the West, the Church's center of gravity has shifted to Africa, Latin America, and developing Asi...

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Sport

Hard Driving The 1908 Auto Race From New York to Paris

Cole Dermot

ISBN: PB: 9781602234024, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones, 1 map

In the winter of 1908, six cars left Times Square bound for Paris. They were embarking on a remarkable motor race across the world that would capture everyone's imagination. In this book, Dermot Cole weaves a thrilling account of the improbable journ...

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Poetry

Borderland Apocrypha

Cody Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9781632430762, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
160 pp., 15.2x22.8 cm, 1 halftone

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican – American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communit...

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Christianity

America

Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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Fiction

Heartland Calamitous

Credico Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781938769535, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
128 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Emerging from deep in America's hinterland, Michael Credico's flash fiction portrays an absurdist, exaggerated, and bizarre vision of the Midwest known as the heartland. The stories are clipped views into a land filled with slippery confusion and cha...

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