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Poetry

Build Me a Boat Words for Music 1968 – 2018

Browne Michael Dennis

ISBN: PB: 9780887486586, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Build Me a Boat" gathers a selection of the words that poet Michael Dennis Browne has written for music over the past fifty years. Working with a number of different composers, Browne has ranged widely across forms; what we discover here are lyrics,...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Bark A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Wojtech Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781684580316, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 283 colour plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps

What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detai...

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History

Before Nature Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

Rochberg Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226759586, ISBN: HB: 9780226406138, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has – but "Before Nature" explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature" – no word, reference, or sense fo...

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Film Studies

Jewish Studies

Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds

Hoberman J.

ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.

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Music

Both from the Ears and Mind Thinking about Music in Early Modern England

Phyllis Austern Linda

ISBN: HB: 9780226701592, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 25 halftones

"Both from the Ears and Mind" offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical perf...

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Criminology

Beyond the Usual Beating The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

Baer Andrew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700472, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge's decades-long tenure...

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Poetry

BEIT

Green Eryn

ISBN: PB: 9781936970667, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
100 pp., 24.7x17.7 cm

Eryn Green's new collection of poetry "BEIT" is a lyric examination of the idea of home, and how it intersects with the essential human experiences of love, attachment, and loss. Filtered through a Hebrew sense of the letter Bet – the second letter o...

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Poetry

Borderland Apocrypha

Cody Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9781632430762, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
160 pp., 15.2x22.8 cm, 1 halftone

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican – American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communit...

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Business & Economics

Law

Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century

Eschelbach Hansen Mary, Hansen Bradley A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables

In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...

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Linguistics

Bantu Applicative Constructions

Pacchiarotti Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781684000593, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
0 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of lan...

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