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Children's Books

Singh Vandana

ISBN: PB: 9788189013394, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
148 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 12 halftones

Vandana Singh's first book, "Younguncle Comes to Town", was an instant classic of children's literature. Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up, Younguncle finds himself on an adventure in the mountains of India. In "Younguncle in the Himalayas",...

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Poetry

You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier

Harris Jana

ISBN: PB: 9781602232358, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...

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Anthropology

Yaya's Story The Quest for Well-Being in the World

Stoller Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226178820, ISBN: HB: 9780226178790, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 17 halftones

Yaya's Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller – its author – an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, la...

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Music

You'll Know When You Get There Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

Gluck Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226142715, ISBN: HB: 9780226300047, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones, 22 line illus.

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what w...

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Jewish Studies

Gender Studies

You Feel So Mortal Essays on the Body

Shinner Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226105277, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Feet, bras, autopsies, hair – Peggy Shinner takes an honest, unflinching look at all of them in "You Feel So Mortal", a collection of searing and witty essays about the body: her own body, female and Jewish; those of her parents, the bodies she came...

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Biography & Memoires

Culture Studies

You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...

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Dictionaries

Reference

Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary (Second Edition) Volumes 1 and 2

Jacobson Steven A.

ISBN: PB: 9781555001155, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
1248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialec...

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Jewish Studies

Young Tel Aviv A Tale of Two Cities

Helman Anat

ISBN: PB: 9781611683370, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Practical Zionism in the Mandate era (1920-1948) is usually associated with agricultural settlements (kibbutzim), organized socialist workers, and the creation of a formal high culture. This book fills a gap in historical research by presenting a dif...

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Photography

Anthropology

Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

Barker James H., Fienup-Riordan Ann, Arevgaq John Theresa

ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones

Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...

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Fiction

Youth Without Youth

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226204154, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
140 pp., 20x14 cm

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history – a man who thought his li...

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