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Contemporary Art

Beauty of a Social Problem Photography, Autonomy, Economy

Benn Michaels Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226421186, ISBN: HB: 9780226210261, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
240 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 28 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's "beauty and attraction" invisible. In "The Beauty of a Social Problem", Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty thro...

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Biochemistry

Biotechnology and Society An Introduction

Stevens Hallam

ISBN: PB: 9780226046013, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

With "Biotechnology and Society", Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, a...

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Literary Criticism

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Building Fires in the Snow A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry

Amore Martha, Childs Lucian

ISBN: PB: 9781602233010, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about...

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Buddhism

Birth of Insight Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

Braun Erik

ISBN: PB: 9780226418575, ISBN: HB: 9780226000800, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often...

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Sport

Backcasts A Global History of Fly Fishing and Conservation

Snyder Samuel, Borgelt Bryon, Tobey Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226366579, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones

"Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect" – Norman Maclean Though Maclean writes of an age-old focus of all anglers – the day's catch – he may as well be spe...

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General

Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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Poetry

Book of Fans

Honcoopova Helena, Mostow Joshua, Yasuhara Makoto

ISBN: HB: 9788024625188, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.4x22.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in fan-shaped pictures, which blossomed fro...

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Reference

But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"? Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A

ISBN: HB: 9780226370644, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
112 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Q. Is it "happy medium" or "happy median"? My author writes: "We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme". Thanks! A. The idiom is "happy medium", but I like the...

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Health & Wellbeing

Bounding Biomedicine Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine

Derkatch Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226345840, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 2 tables

During the 1990s, an unprecedented number of Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), an umbrella term encompassing chiropractic, energy healing, herbal medicine, homeopathy, meditation, naturopathy, and traditional Chinese m...

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Gender Studies

Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life

Strathern Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780986132537, University of Chicago Press, HAU, April 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology...

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