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Photography

Public Image Photography and Civic Spectatorship

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226342931, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates

Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that m...

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Chemistry

Biography & Memoires

Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

Hemmungs Wirten Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...

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Fiction

Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Gender Studies

Music

Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music

Hutchinson Sydney

ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...

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Fiction

Bad Lands A Novel

Hall Oakley

ISBN: PB: 9780226412610, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

It's 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory – a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the "Beef Bonanza" is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stu...

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America

Capital Culture J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

Harris Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226434469, ISBN: HB: 9780226067704, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served a...

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Women Studies

Film Studies

From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780226412894, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 57 halftones

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's "From Reverence to Rape" remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to f...

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Film Studies

Nollywood The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Haynes Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226387956, ISBN: HB: 9780226387819, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 tables

Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, p...

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Other

America

Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

Howe Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...

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Anthropology

Why We Play An Anthropological Study

Hamayon Roberte

ISBN: PB: 9780986132568, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2016
370 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined en...

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