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  • PORTAL
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    PORTAL
    TRACY FUAD
    A poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety.   Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic o...

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  • INTERSTICES
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    INTERSTICES
    ALEXANDER ALBERRO
     An exploration of innovative practices flourishing at the margins of Western art.   With this book, Alexander Alberro engages decolonial theory to explore the dynamic exchanges that occur where the ideals and values of different artistic frameworks meet. Resisting notions of a singular art world and global contemporary art, Alberro explores what lies outside of Western art’s h...

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  • THE COMPOSER EMBALMED
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    THE COMPOSER EMBALMED
    ABIGAIL FINE
    The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion—a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming.   During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made composers into figureheads of a lasting Western canon. Alongside this institutional fa...

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  • HEAVEN HAS A WALL
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    HEAVEN HAS A WALL
    ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD
    An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture.   Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus was a refugee.” For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects. In this bo...

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  • PENELOPE’S BONES
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    PENELOPE’S BONES
    EMILY HAUSER
    Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.   Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored over endlessly in the past three millennia. But these are not just tales about heroic ...

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  • FASCISM
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    FASCISM
    FEDERICO MARCON
    A wide-ranging history of the term “fascism,” what it has meant, and what it means today.   The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the term “fascist” and when and whether it is appropriate to use it. The landmark study Fascism: The History of a Word takes this debate further ...

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  • THE SYMPHONY CONCERT IN NAZI GERMANY
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    THE SYMPHONY CONCERT IN NAZI GERMANY
    NEIL GREGOR
    A new history of how the musical worlds of German towns and cities were transformed during the Nazi era. In the years after the Nazis came to power in January 1933 and throughout the Second World War, all aspects of life in Germany changed. Despite the social and political upheaval, gentile citizens continued to attend concerts. In this book, historian Neil Gregor surveys how t...

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  • BATTLE OF THE BIG BANG
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    BATTLE OF THE BIG BANG
    NIAYESH AFSHORDI / PHIL HALPER
    A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.   By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at all? Here prominent cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and science co...

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  • KARL MARX IN AMERICA
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    KARL MARX IN AMERICA
    ANDREW HARTMAN
    The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life.   To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the i...

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  • IN THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE
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    IN THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE
    ALICIA VOLK
    A pioneering look at an immensely creative period in Japanese art that developed amid the Cold War.   Alicia Volk brings to light a significant body of postwar Japanese art, exploring how it accommodated and resisted the workings of the American empire during the early Cold War. Volk’s groundbreaking account presents the points of view of Japanese artists and their audiences un...

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  • FISHES OF THE CHICAGO REGION
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    FISHES OF THE CHICAGO REGION
    FRANCIS M. VERALDI / STEPHEN M. PESCITELLI / PHILIP W. WILLINK
    “A must-have field guide for fans of Second City area fish.”—Robert Ito, The New York Times Book Review • “A treasure of hardcore fish intelligence and delightful tidbits of fish history.”—Dale Bowman, Chicago Sun-Times Fish don’t heed state boundaries, and neither does this comprehensive, photo-filled guide to the diverse species of Chicago and beyond.   Encompassing southern ...

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  • THEATER AFTER FILM
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    THEATER AFTER FILM
    MARTIN HARRIES
    A study of the impact of film and mass culture on drama after World War II. In Theater after Film, Martin Harries argues that after 1945, as cinema became omnipresent in popular culture, theater had to respond to cinema’s hegemony. Theater couldn’t break that hegemony, but it could provide a zone of contestation. Theater made film’s domination of the cultural field visible thro...

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  • CRITICAL TERMS FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
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    CRITICAL TERMS FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
    SARAH HAMMERSCHLAG
    A new edition of a classic resource—composed of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume. First published nearly thirty years ago, Critical Terms for Religious Studies proved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed the meaning of terms a...

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  • YOU ARE NOT A KINESTHETIC LEARNER
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    YOU ARE NOT A KINESTHETIC LEARNER
    THOMAS FALLACE
    A compelling history of the learning style concept and how it was shaped by shifting ideas in psychology, anthropology, and education.   The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes—visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—has informed educational practices for decades. In recent years, however, numerous studies have questioned the effective...

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  • THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AMERICAN INEQUALITY
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    THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AMERICAN INEQUALITY
    MARTHA J. BAILEY, LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, AND WILLIAM J. COLLINS
    A meticulous examination of the history and roots of economic inequality within the United States. This volume refines and extends the economic history literature on economic inequality in the United States. Economic inequality manifests itself on various dimensions, including access to resources and economic security, as well as access to education and opportunities for migrat...

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  • LONG-TERM CARE AROUND THE WORLD
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    LONG-TERM CARE AROUND THE WORLD
    JONATHAN GRUBER AND KATHLEEN MCGARRY
    A comparative analysis of both formal and informal long-term care in ten of the world’s wealthiest countries. Nations throughout the world are in the midst of an enormous demographic transition, with life expectancy increasing and fertility falling, leading to a rapidly aging population and critical implications for long-term care around the world. This volume documents and com...

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  • WRITE LIKE YOU TEACH
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    WRITE LIKE YOU TEACH
    JAMES M. LANG
    This engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers. After years spent cultivating their expertise and passion for a subject, scholars are uniquely positioned to write great books. Yet, accustomed to writing for an audience of their peers, many scholars find it challenging to adapt the...

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  • THE BARTHES FANTASTIC
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    THE BARTHES FANTASTIC
    JOHN LURZ
    This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work. In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life—and confronts some habits of literary study—through a reading of the work of Roland Barthes. An influential French theorist, Barthes wrote prolifically on th...

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  • WHY EVERYONE HATES WHITE LIBERALS (INCLUDING WHITE LIBERALS)
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    WHY EVERYONE HATES WHITE LIBERALS (INCLUDING WHITE LIBERALS)
    KEVIN M. SCHULTZ
    A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals—and why it’s time to change the conversation about them. If there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in communism. Libertarians hate them for believing in the power of the state. Socialists hate th...

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  • THE LIBRARY OF ANCIENT WISDOM
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    THE LIBRARY OF ANCIENT WISDOM
    SELENA WISNOM
    A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.   The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire f...

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  • THE BURIED CITY
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    THE BURIED CITY
    GABRIEL ZUCHTRIEGEL
    The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.   In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii and reveals new archaeological finds that are being unearthed at the site’s biggest dig in a generation. As director of th...

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  • SENSATIONS
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    SENSATIONS
    DANIEL J. SHERMAN
    Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline’s scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention.   For well over a century, from Heinrich Schliemann’s sensational discoveries at Troy in the 1880s, through the Tutankhamun excavations of the 1920s, to the recent LIDAR-aided uncovering of lost Maya citie...

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  • NIETZSCHE'S EARTHBOUND WISDOM
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    NIETZSCHE'S EARTHBOUND WISDOM
    KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON
    An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher.   Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking and his focus on the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life. In Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom, Ansell-Pearso...

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  • EDUCATED OUT
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    EDUCATED OUT
    MARA CASEY TIEKEN
    Through the stories of nine rural, first-generation students and their families, Educated Out shows how geography shapes college opportunities, from admission to postgraduation options.   A former third-grade teacher in rural Tennessee, education researcher Mara Casey Tieken watched as her former students graduated high school. She was shocked at how few were heading to college...

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  • A LAND OF TWO PEOPLES
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    A LAND OF TWO PEOPLES
    MARTIN BUBER
    A new edition of Martin Buber’s many writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, with updated forewords by two preeminent Palestinian and Jewish scholars.   The theologian and philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965) was committed to radical socioeconomic reconstruction in pursuit of international peace. His voluminous writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine interweave h...

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  • UNDERWORLD WORK
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    UNDERWORLD WORK
    AHMAD GREENE-HAYES
    A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.   When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry o...

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  • THE GOSPEL OF FAMILY PLANNING
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    THE GOSPEL OF FAMILY PLANNING
    NICOLE C. BOURBONNAIS
    An engaging, insightful history of the family planning movement and its connection to broader social and political developments across the globe.   In the twentieth century, the idea that people should consciously plan (and limit) the size of their families became a global cause. Historical accounts of the global family planning movement have largely focused on the most promine...

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  • LAB DOG
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    LAB DOG
    BRAD BOLMAN
    Tracing over a century of transformation in the relationship between humans and our “best friend,” from hunting companion to laboratory commodity to modern pet.   Intrepid, docile, and cloaked in coats of white, black, and tan, beagles were one of the most popular breeds in the United States in the twentieth century. From Snoopy to dog shows, many Americans loved and identified...

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  • HOW SLAVOJ BECAME ZIZEK
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    HOW SLAVOJ BECAME ZIZEK
    ELIRAN BAR-EL
    An engrossing account of the meteoric rise of contemporary philosophy’s most contentious and prolific intellectual.    This revised edition corrects several erroneous and insufficient references in the first edition of this book.    Slovenian philosopher bad boy Slavoj Žižek is one of the most famous intellectuals of our time, publishing at a breakneck speed and lecturing aroun...

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  • MAJOR TRADE-OFFS
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    MAJOR TRADE-OFFS
    COREY MOSS-PECH
    An eye-opening look at the relationship between students’ majors and their entry-level jobs. Humanities majors are used to answering the question, “So, what are you going to do with that degree?” The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don’t learn any useful skills for the real world. In Major Trade-Offs, sociologist Corey Moss-Pech argues that not only...

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