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Film Studies

America

Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226352206, ISBN: HB: 9780226352176, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the...

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Entomology

Infested How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226361086, ISBN: HB: 9780226041933, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 6 line drawings

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vu...

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Political Science

Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Law

Criminology

Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law

Drobac Jennifer Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226301013, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

When we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual...

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America

History

Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Cohen-Cole Jamie

ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings

"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...

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Fiction

Papi A Novel

Indiana Rita

ISBN: PB: 9780226244891, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Papi's there, around any corner", says the eight-year-old girl at the heart of "Papi".But you can't sit down and wait for him cuz that's a longer and more painful death". Living in Santo Domingo, she waits for her father to come back from the United...

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Fiction

Scavengers Stories

Hagenston Becky

ISBN: PB: 9781602232877, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A woman obsessed with reality TV encounters a sorority girl who has embarked on a very personal scavenger hunt. A man unexpectedly discovers that his father – a seemingly rational man – believes, seriously, in lake monsters. A woman whose husband has...

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Contemporary Art

Maria Bartuszova Provisional Forms

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788364177262, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2016
250 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-1996) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appeared in influential exhibitions and been included in prestigious contemporar...

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America

World More Concrete Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

Connolly N. D. B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226115146, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 3 maps

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In "A World More Concrete", N. D. B. Connolly uses the hist...

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Contemporary Art

Experimental Group Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

Jackson Matthew Jesse

ISBN: PB: 9780226317960, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 69 colour plates, 89 halftones, 1 line drawing

A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, "The Experimental Group" takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's art –...

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