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America

Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

Golodoff Nick

ISBN: PB: 9781602232495, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts

In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corr...

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Ecology

After Preservation Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans

Minteer Ben A., Pyne Stephen J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226259963, ISBN: HB: 9780226259826, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing

From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos – to encir...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

Animal Part Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination

Payne Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226272320, ISBN: HB: 9780226650845, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and oth...

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Evolution

Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Gee Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226271200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284880, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary ima...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Animal Claim Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226239392, ISBN: HB: 9780226239255, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws...

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Poetry

Anyone

Klug Nate

ISBN: PB: 9780226196954, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
64 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Milton's God Where I-95 meets The Pike, a ponderous thunderhead flowered – stewed a minute, then flipped like a flash card, tattered edges crinkling in, linings so dark with excessive bright that, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge, the onl...

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Business & Economics

All Edge Inside the New Workplace Networks

Spinuzzi Clay

ISBN: HB: 9780226236964, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 9 tables

Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These changes have forced a mass rethinking of the way we coordinate, collaborate, and c...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Afterall Spring 2015, Issue 38

Vilalta Helena, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Cahill Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781846381560, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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Anthropology

Anti-Witch

Favret-Saada Jeanne

ISBN: PB: 9780990505044, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates

Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and "The Anti-Witch" is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject i...

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