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Music

Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form

Jankowsky Richard C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723471, ISBN: HB: 9780226723334, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables

Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undo...

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Literary Criticism

End of the World Poetry and Prose

Jirous Ivan M.

ISBN: PB: 9788024645278, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet "Magor" (which translates roughly to "fool" or "madman"), Ivan Jirous was one of the most significant figures in t...

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Europe

Compensations of Plunder How China Lost Its Treasures

Jacobs Justin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226712017, ISBN: HB: 9780226711966, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow loud...

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Poetry

Praise Song for My Children New and Selected Poems

Jabbeh Wesley Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9781938769504, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
240 pp., 23.4x13.9 cm

"Praise Song for My Children" celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley guides us through the complex and intertwined highs and lows of motherhood and all the roles that...

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Poetry

Women Studies

Eleanor

Jacobik Gray

ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...

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Contemporary Art

Zofia Kulik Methodology, My Love

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: HB: 9788364177590, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, January 2020
360 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 60 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Zofia Kulik's rich artistic career has a dual nature. Between 1970 and 1987, she worked alongside Przemyslaw Kwiek as a member of the duo KwieKulik, after which she began to develop a successful individual career. While Kwie...

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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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Political Science

Great Broadening How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

Jones Bryan D., Theriault Sean M., Whyman Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226625942, ISBN: HB: 9780226625805, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 line drawings, 4 tables

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society...

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Buddhism

Seeking Sakyamuni South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Jaffe Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226391151, ISBN: HB: 9780226391144, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 1 table

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition's birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated "Seeking Sakyamuni", Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the...

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General

America

Browning of the New South

Jones Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...

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