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Anthropology

Beyond Surgery Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital

Hannig Anita

ISBN: PB: 9780226457291, ISBN: HB: 9780226457154, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention in Africa, affecting over one million women across the global south. Western-funded hospitals have sprung up, offering surgical sut...

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Sport

Bittersweet Science Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside

Rotella Carlo, Ezra Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226346205, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport – and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, r...

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Law

Biggest Damned Hat Tales from Alaska's Territorial Lawyers and Judges

Cravez Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781602233171, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2017
220 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters – prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, the...

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Literary Criticism

Bond of the Furthest Apart Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka

Cameron Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780226414065, ISBN: HB: 9780226413907, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson's cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon...

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Criminology

Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation

Eason John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226410340, ISBN: HB: 9780226410203, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 4 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables

For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country bu...

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America

Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226391687, ISBN: HB: 9780226391540, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 54 halftones, 1 line drawing

Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province". Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services – a transformation rooted in the "Qui...

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Public Health

Bodies in Flux Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

Teston Christa

ISBN: PB: 9780226450667, ISBN: HB: 9780226450520, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 11 line drawings, 16 tables

Medical professionals, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of medical "certainty" regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease states. Constructing certainty requires reductions and deductions. It requires...

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Political Science

Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

Hauf Felix

ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables

"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...

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History of Art

Beyond Words Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections

Fagin Davis Lisa, Eze Anne-Marie, Hamburger Jeffrey F., Netzer Nancy, Stoneman William P.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850287, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2017
378 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 325 colour plates

"Beyond Words" accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University's Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area instituti...

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Architecture

Building Histories The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi

Rajagopalan Mrinalini

ISBN: HB: 9780226283470, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 51 halftones, 1 table

"Building Histories" offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi – the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex – tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinali...

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