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Women Studies

Women and Partition A Reader

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...

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Decorative Arts

Design

West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

Stirton Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226336930, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 24x19 cm, 55 colour plates, 45 halftones

Published on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center, "West 86th" focuses on scholarship in material culture, design history, and the decorative arts. In this issue, Eric Anderson examines how Angerer's photographs of Hans Makart's studio were informed by...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

West 86th, Volume 23, Issue 2

Stirton Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226441276, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, "West 86th" reaffirms the Center's commitment to expanding the conversation regarding the content, meaning, and significance of objects".West 86th"...

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Travel

Wake of the Unseen Object Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes

Kizzia Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602234307, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 map

A series of journeys to Alaska's remote roadless villages, during a time of great historical transition, brings us this enduring portrait of a place and its people. Alutiiq, Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and Athabascan subjects reveal themselves as entirely conte...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination

Clarke Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780226790107, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A...

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Philosophy

What a Philosopher Is Becoming Nietzsche

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780226760438, ISBN: HB: 9780226488110, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche – classicist and ardent advocate of Wagner's cultural renewal – become the philosopher of Will to Power and t...

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Biography & Memoires

Travel

Wanderer

Garrison Carole J.

ISBN: PB: 9781734618112, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2020
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 116 halftones

In The Wanderer, Carole J. Garrison fulfills her bucket list by meeting with the people who fascinate her and the places that lead her to them. Through her journeys, she explores the unexpected human connections that transform the experience of trave...

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Pharmacy

White Market Drugs Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America

Herzberg David

ISBN: HB: 9780226731889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 4 line drawings

The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fue...

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Anthropology

Wild Thought A New Translation of "La Pensee sauvage"

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226413082, ISBN: HB: 9780226208015, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 19 line drawings

Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned...

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Mammals

Law

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Bradshaw Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...

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