http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/ Alumni publications submitted to the Magazine en Copyright 2012 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:22:57 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption.]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/faith-in-the-fight-religion-an.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/faith-in-the-fight-religion-an.html Religion & Philosophy Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:22:57 -0600 Jeff Rasley has trekked or climbed in the Nepal Himalayas almost every year since 1995. He kept a written and photographic journal each trip. The personal essays included in this anthology are based on these journals. Photos included illustrate the magnificent beauty of the Himalayan Mountains and the unique culture of the high mountain dwellers. The anthology of photos and articles will whet the appetite of those interested in trekking the Himalayas. The stories present a gestalt of the local culture and some of the interesting characters who have climbed and trekked the Himalayas. The experience of a first Himalayan climb is described as is the inspiring experience of trekking with Sir Edmund Hillary's elder sister as is the gratification of helping to finish a little village school in the land of the Rai people. The amazing strength and admirable gentleness of the Sherpa and Rai people living within the most spectacular vistas on planet Earth create a magnetic attraction for adventurers and spiritual seekers. Rasley's love of the mountains and mountain people shows through his personal essays. But he is also critical of how the spread of materialistic consumerism has damaged traditional cultures. And he describes how some mission and development efforts with the best of intentions have harmed rather than helped the traditional culture of local people. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/nepal-himalayas-in-the-moment.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/nepal-himalayas-in-the-moment.html Travel & Leisure Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:19:46 -0600 Invisible Families explores the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners, and form families. Invisible Families asks how people with multiple stigmatized identities imagine and construct an individual and collective sense of self.]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/invisible-families-gay-identit.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/invisible-families-gay-identit.html Gender Studies Social Sciences Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:15:52 -0600 the how on both a societal and a personal level.]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/inescapable-consequences-1.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/inescapable-consequences-1.html Fiction & Poetry Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:11:52 -0600 Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism--and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate of fear. Drawing on in-depth analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11--including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq--the authors present a compelling case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness. The media, meanwhile, largely abdicated its watchdog role, choosing to amplify the administration's message while downplaying issues that might have called the administration's statements and strategies into question. The book extends through Hurricane Katrina, and the more skeptical coverage that followed, then the first year of the Obama administration, when an increasingly partisan political environment presented the media, and the public, with new problems of reporting and interpretation. Selling Fear is a hard-hitting analysis of the intertwined failures of government and media--and their costs to our nation.]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/selling-fear-counterterrorism.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/selling-fear-counterterrorism.html Political Science & Law Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:08:37 -0600 In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin. Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, Duany proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendants lead what Duany calls "bifocal" lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/blurred-borders-transnational.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/blurred-borders-transnational.html Social Sciences Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:04:30 -0600 Homesickness: An American History revises long-held assumptions about home, mobility, and our national identity. ]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/homesicknes-an-american-histor.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/homesicknes-an-american-histor.html History & Current Events Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:00:40 -0600 Love, Sex, and Mushrooms is a memoir of my life in science, my quest, from an early age, to be a scientist when females were thought to be unsuited for such professions. The journey spans the last three quarters of the 20th century. It encompasses a lack of encouragement for becoming a scientist all through college until graduate school when I met the love of my life, a young University of Chicago professor, who taught me to love the fungi and how to investigate the myriad ways in which they accomplish sexual union. We married, had children, and collaborated in fungal research until his premature death. The struggle to carry on alone involved a whole new way of life leading to the realm of molecular genetics and the revelation that mushrooms with thousands of sexes seek their mates using molecules similar to those used for development and sensing in insects, rats, and humans. ]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/love-sex-and-mushrooms-adventu.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/love-sex-and-mushrooms-adventu.html Science & Technology Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:28:54 -0600 A sweeping three-volume, 1,200-page examination of sports in the United States from the colonial era to the present day, this first academic encyclopedia explains the process by which sports and its institutions have developed over the centuries, especially in the context of major social developments such as industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. The entries include a 30,000 word chronological overview of American sport history and 400 A-to-Z entries (1,000 to 8,000 words) that explore such subjects as art, business, class, economics, ethnicity, gender, music, social psychology, and race, as well as entries on individual sports, teams, and historically significant contributors. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/sports-in-america-from-colonia.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/sports-in-america-from-colonia.html History & Current Events Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:00:15 -0600 Who was Mary the Magdalene? Why was the Saint's legend so significant for occidental artists and writers through the centuries, especially during the Golden Age? This book aims to solve these questions by means of presenting texts previously neglected by critics and also by revising original interpretations of Golden Age canonical works, through the analysis of the representation of Mary Magdalene in Francisco Delicado, Miguel de Cervantes, Fernández de Avellaneda, and Lope de Vega. The study goes beyond national borders and literary genres and emphasizes the relationship between visual arts and written texts, interweaving ekphrasis and hagiography. Likewise, the author uses a comparative approach in analyzing the role of the Magdalene in Shakespeare's theater and Spanish Golden Age drama. Despite the vast bibliography on the saint, there existed the need for a broad and insightful study to highlight the importance of this figure throughout the Early Modern Age literature. In Spanish with notes and quotes in English. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/santas-y-meretrices.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/09/santas-y-meretrices.html Gender Studies Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:56:06 -0600 How to be a Homeless Frenchman tells a tale of two countries, France and the United States, bound together in weird and wonderful ways by war, music, and the love of good cheese. In this comedic fable, Bertrand leaves France to escape the difficult legacy of a schizophrenic mother who was orphaned by the Nazis. But what starts out as a summer semester living rent free in Wellesley turns into a series of increasingly odd and funny adventures that finds him squatting in the Coolidge Corner Movie Theater, and then living in a tool shed in Dorchester. "If your happiness is costly, then you paid too much," his mother used to say. How to be a Homeless Frenchman is an exploration of just how much happiness can be found in the ordinary joys of being alive on a sunny day.]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/how-to-be-a-homeless-frenchman.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/how-to-be-a-homeless-frenchman.html Fiction & Poetry Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:54:45 -0600 Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg's book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky's body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak. The book is directed toward readers of Russian poetry and pan-Jewish poetic traditions, scholars of Soviet culture and history, and the burgeoning field of Russian Jewish studies. Finally, it contributes to the general field of poetics and Modernism. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/i-am-to-be-read-not-from-left.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/i-am-to-be-read-not-from-left.html Criticism Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:48:56 -0600 Satisfaction Guaranteed: In Chicago will take you on a seriously humorous trip all around the town. ]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/satisfaction-guaranteed-in-chi.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/satisfaction-guaranteed-in-chi.html Psychiatry & Psychology Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:40:56 -0600 Lake Wobegon or James Herriot's Yorkshire countryside and you are almost there.]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/pee-up-a-tree-a-mental-health-1.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/pee-up-a-tree-a-mental-health-1.html Psychiatry & Psychology Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:37:02 -0600 University of Chicago Magazine. Enter discount code CAT11 to save 20%. ]]> http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/economic-collapse-economic-cha.html http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/2011/08/economic-collapse-economic-cha.html Business & Economics Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:17:55 -0600