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Music

Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell'Arte

Wilbourne Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226401577, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 37 line drawings, 4 tables

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages o...

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Anthropology

Conquest and Community The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan

Amin Shahid

ISBN: PB: 9780226372600, ISBN: HB: 9780226372570, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as that of the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about the bloody h...

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General

Therapeutic Revolutions Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Greene Jeremy A., Condrau Flurin, Siegel Watkins Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226390871, ISBN: HB: 9780226390734, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 5 tables

When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight dis...

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Europe

Sins of the Fathers Germany, Memory, Method

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386492, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 2 tables

National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over – the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed...

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Literary Criticism

Bleak Liberalism

Anderson Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226923529, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity, liberalism's assured progressivism can seem hard to swallo...

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Fiction

Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Anthropology

Sex Thieves The Anthropology of a Rumor

Bonhomme Julien

ISBN: PB: 9780986132582, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these a...

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Contemporary Art

Arts Club of Chicago at 100 Art and Culture, 1916-2016

Mileaf Janine, Rossen Susan F.

ISBN: HB: 9781891925467, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Founded in 1916 in the wake of the scandalous Armory Show, the Arts Club of Chicago aimed to present the city with new images, sounds, and ideas. Conceived as an exhibition and social space that would cultivate sophisticated conversations around a...

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Political Science

Partisans and Partners The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society

Pacewicz Josh

ISBN: PB: 9780226402697, ISBN: HB: 9780226402550, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in "Partisans and Partners", Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa – that m...

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Buddhism

From Stone to Flesh A Short History of the Buddha

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226333236, ISBN: HB: 9780226493206, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23x15 cm

We have come to admire Buddhism for being profound but accessible, as much a lifestyle as a religion. The credit for creating Buddhism goes to the Buddha, a figure widely respected across the Western world for his philosophical insight, his teachings...

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