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Ancient World

Death in Babylon Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226037363, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
272 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 halftones

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronic...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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Criminology

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Criminal Intimacy Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

Kunzel Regina

ISBN: PB: 9780226462271, ISBN: HB: 9780226462264, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line illus.

Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers – as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historica...

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Criminology

Last Words of the Executed

Elder Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226202686, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour – and only they can be sure that their last words will be...

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Evolution

Earth Sciences

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Atlas of World Hunger

Bassett Thomas J., Winter-Nelson Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226039077, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 35 tables, 47 halftones, 3 line drawings, 103 colour illus.

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat". The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domes...

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Poetry

Love Poems by Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine

Salinas Pedro

ISBN: HB: 9780226734262, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...

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Poetry

Slow Trains Overhead Chicago Poems and Stories

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226478845, ISBN: HB: 9780226290584, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
120 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience – a chance encounter with a ve...

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Fiction

Black Ice Score A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226771090, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back – with the help of a "specialist" – Pa...

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Europe

New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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