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Islam

Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the City of Angels

Prickett Pamela J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747286, ISBN: HB: 9780226747149, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographic...

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Medieval

Boccaccio's "Decameron" Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition

Cervigni Dino S.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986069, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
554 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This study develops a new interpretation of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first nine...

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Education

Broke The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities

Hamilton Laura T., Nielsen Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9780226747453, ISBN: HB: 9780226605401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gaine...

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Law

BigLaw Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm

Regan Mitt, Rohrer Lisa H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226742137, ISBN: HB: 9780226741949, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures

The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large fi...

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Sport

Bicycling through Paradise Historical Rides Around Cincinnati

Smythe Kathleen, Hanlin Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781947602755, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, November 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Bicycling Through Paradise is a collection of twenty historically themed cycling tours broken into 10-mile segments centered around Cincinnati, Ohio. Written by two longtime cyclists – one a professor of history and one an architect – the book is an...

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Christianity

America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Genetics

Blood Relations Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics

Bangham Jenny

ISBN: PB: 9780226740034, ISBN: HB: 9780226739977, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...

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Music

Beethoven A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

Kinderman William

ISBN: HB: 9780226669052, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 20 halftones, 26 line drawings

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music e...

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Fiction

Beforeland A Novel

Vallianatos Corinna

ISBN: PB: 9781946724380, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In The Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet str...

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Poetry

Breathing Place

Bedient Cal

ISBN: PB: 9781632430823, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The poems in The Breathing Place, Calvin Bedient's fifth collection of poetry, take in and move through three areas of consideration. Focusing first on the turmoil of an imperfect world before turning to raging social concerns, the poems finally come...

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