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Anthropology

Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

Geroulanos Stefanos, Meyers Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226556598, ISBN: HB: 9780226556451, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In "The Human B...

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Physics

Tunnel Visions The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider

Riordan Michael, Hoddeson Lillian, Kolb Adrienne W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598901, ISBN: HB: 9780226294797, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elus...

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America

Women Studies

Wildcat Women Narratives of the Women Breaking Ground in Alaska's Oil and Gas Industry

Williams Carla

ISBN: PB: 9781602233546, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats".Wildcat Women" is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's Nor...

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Literary Criticism

Worldmakers Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe

Ramachandran Ayesha

ISBN: PB: 9780226598871, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, excitin...

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Cartography

After the Map Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century

Rankin William

ISBN: PB: 9780226600536, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 colour plates, 144 halftones

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predi...

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Military

Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare

Hevia James L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226562285, ISBN: HB: 9780226562148, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousand...

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Other

Anthropology

Apples and Oranges Explorations In, On, and With Comparison

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226564074, ISBN: HB: 9780226563916, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 tables

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to tak...

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Medieval

Europe

Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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Music

Message to Our Folks The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Steinbeck Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226418094, ISBN: HB: 9780226375960, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique perf...

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Media Studies

Scripted Culture Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere

Kleesattel Ines, Widmer Ruedi

ISBN: PB: 9783035800852, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
288 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 60 halftones

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges. In some ways, the digital age seems to have brought the goals of the Enlightenment to their fullest fruition, giving us boundless and instan...

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