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Anthropology

Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsnes An Archaeological and Historical Study

Norlund Poul

ISBN: PB: 9788763523226, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
268 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the facsimile version of the fascinating book, originally published in 1924, in which Poul Norlund gives the first gathered, concise description of the old Norse settlement of Herjolfsnes on the south tip of Greenland, presenting the archaeol...

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Anthropology

Brattahlid

Norlund Poul, Stenberger Marten

ISBN: PB: 9788763524261, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
163 pp., 27.9x21 cm

This is the facsimile edition of the original 1934 volume describing the process and findings of the archaeological expedition carried out over three months, from June till September, in 1932 to the old Viking settlement of Brattahlid ("Brattahlio" o...

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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Christianity

Becoming a New Self Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism

Sluhovsky Moshe

ISBN: HB: 9780226472850, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Becoming a New Self", Moshe Sluhovsky examines the diffusion of spiritual practices among lay Catholics in early modern Europe. By offering a close examination of early modern Catholic penitential and meditative techniques, Sluhovsky makes the ca...

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Film Studies

Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even

Koch Gertrud

ISBN: PB: 9783035800081, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
96 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

"Breaking Bad" is known for its grim and gritty outbursts of anger and violence. In the chaotic story of a meth-dealing high school chemistry teacher, time seems to collapse, and we feel as though the lives of the characters are moving inevitably clo...

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Philosophy

Evolution

Biological Individuality Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives

Lidgard Scott, Nyhart Lynn K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446455, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 tables

Individuals are things that everybody knows – or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biolog...

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Music

Beethoven's Symphonies Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226453880, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 18 halftones

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the...

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Europe

Travel

Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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Law

Bilingual Courtroom Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process (Second Edition)

Berk-Seligson Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226329161, ISBN: HB: 9780226329338, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

Susan Berk-Seligson's groundbreaking book draws on more than one hundred hours of audio recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts – along with a number of psycholinguistic experiments involving mock juror...

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America

Music

Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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