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Political Science

Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226638430, ISBN: HB: 9780226638263, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 12 tables

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have k...

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Fiction

Bead of Amber on Her Tongue

Pullen Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9781632430694, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
56 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Helen of Troy and Aphrodite: two classical paragons of beauty and love. These two figures have served as the inspiration for innumerable works of art in the Western cannon. In the twenty-first century, however, what do their stories provide but a rem...

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Political Science

Bending the Rules Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

Augustine Potter Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226621746, ISBN: HB: 9780226621609, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 22 tables

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreog...

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Fiction

Burning Daylight

London Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602233676, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Jack London's lifetime, "Burning Daylight" was one of his best-selling books, yet it has been largely out of print for decades. Now the novel is being brought back for a new generation of readers to discover. The story features one of London's mos...

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Gender Studies

Breaching the Citadel The India Papers

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757786, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"Breaching the Citadel", part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity....

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Linguistics

Battle in the Mind Fields

Goldsmith John A., Laks Bernard

ISBN: HB: 9780226550800, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

"We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side". Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard La...

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Poetry

Bower

Voisine Connie

ISBN: PB: 9780226613789, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

How can a person come to understand wars and hatreds well enough to explain them truthfully to a child? "The Bower" engages this timeless and thorny question through a recounting of the poet-speaker's year in Belfast, Ireland, with her young daughter...

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General

America

Browning of the New South

Jones Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...

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Poetry

Be-Hooved

Ka Mar

ISBN: PB: 9781602233768, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Mar Ka lives in and writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains".Be-Hooved", her new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings – structured along th...

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Biography & Memoires

Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole

Soos Frank, Ehrlander Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781602233805, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflectio...

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