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Please RSVP Questions on Collaborative Aesthetics, Trans-Subjectivity, and the Politics of Love

Durham April

ISBN: PB: 9781512603682, ISBN: HB: 9781512603453, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's no secret that working with others, rather than alone, on a creative project can often yield the most unexpected results, a new and surprising sum greater than the whole of its parts. "Please RSVP" presents a bold new theory of just how powerful...

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Political Science

Politics of Petulance America in an Age of Immaturity

Wolfe Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226679112, ISBN: HB: 9780226555164, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

"How did we get into this mess?" Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or who he's atta...

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Culture Studies

Republic of Color Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America

Rossi Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226651729, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 6 halftones,

"The Republic of Color" delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America. For a nation in the grip of pr...

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Philosophy

Secret Body Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226679082, ISBN: HB: 9780226126821, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour illus.

Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves...

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Fiction

Spider Love Song and Other Stories

Au Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781946724205, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, September 2019
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Nancy Au's debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align, whose spirits attempt flight...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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Public Health

Viral Economies Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam

Porter Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9780226648941, ISBN: HB: 9780226648804, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people l...

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Music

Voice as Something More Essays toward Materiality

Feldman Martha H., Zeitlin Judith T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226647173, ISBN: HB: 9780226656397, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 line drawings,

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In "The Voice as Something Mor"e, Martha Feld...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2018 Volume 33

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645728, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
500 pp., 23x15 cm

This volume contains six studies on current topics in macroeconomics. The first shows that while assuming rational expectations is unrealistic, a finite-horizon forward planning model can yield results similar to those of a rational expectations equi...

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Poetry

War Makes Everyone Lonely

Barnhart Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226660462, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In his first collection of poems, many of which were written during his years as a US Army Special Forces medic, Graham Barnhart explores themes of memory, trauma, and isolation. Ranging from conventional lyrics and narrative verse to prose poems and...

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