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Philosophy
Urban Condition
Mongin Olivier
ISBN: PB: 9788024632933, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
300 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The first installment in Karolinum's new Vaclav Havel Series – which aims to continue the philosophical discourse of that thinker, playwright, dissident, and president – this book asks whe...
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Music
Unnatural Attitude Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought
Steege Benjamin
ISBN: HB: 9780226762982, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic – a phenomenological style, which sought a renewed contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence...
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Biography & Memoires
Ecology
Unnatural Selection A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness
Ross Andrea
ISBN: PB: 9781933880839, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties,...
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Gay and Lesbian Studies
Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality
Hope Cleves Rachel
ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...
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Poetry
under the aegis of a winged mind
Bandele mMkalani
ISBN: PB: 9781938769580, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl "Bud" Powell. Powell was a leading figure in the development of jazz, but throughout his life, he also faced struggles with police...
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Middle East
Unfinished Arab Spring Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity
El Issawi Fatima, Cavatorta Francesco
ISBN: HB: 9781909942486, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, August 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The aim of this volume is to adopt an original analytical approach in explaining various dynamics at work behind the Arab Spring, through giving voice to local dynamics and legacies rather than concentrating on debates about paradigms. It highlights...
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General
Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality
Besbris Max
ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables
What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...
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America
Urban Lowlands A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning
Moga Steven T.
ISBN: HB: 9780226710532, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones
In "Urban Lowlands", Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the pover...
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Christianity
Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood
Clevenger Casey Ritchie
ISBN: PB: 9780226697550, ISBN: HB: 9780226697413, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 3 tables
When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquartered in the West, the Church's center of gravity has shifted to Africa, Latin America, and developing Asi...
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Union by Law Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
McCann Michael W., Lovell George I.
ISBN: PB: 9780226679907, ISBN: HB: 9780226679877, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethni...
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