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Political Science

Broken Ballots Will Your Vote Count?

Jones Douglas W., Simons Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9781575866369, ISBN: HB: 9781575866376, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
420 pp., 23x15 cm

For many of us, the presidential election of 2000 was a wake-up call. The controversy following the vote count led to demands for election reform. But the new voting systems that were subsequently introduced to the market have serious security flaws,...

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Europe

Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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Poetry

Complete Perfectionist A Poetics of Work

Jimenez Juan Ramon

ISBN: PB: 9780983322009, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimenez brings together th...

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Ancient World

History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Johnstone Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226405094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm

An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at a...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Alina Szapocznikow Awkward Objects

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788392404460, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
288 pp., 19x14 cm, 85 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The volume entitled, "Alina Szapocznikow" is a collection of materials from the international conference "Alina Szapocznikow. Works. Documents. Interpretations". (May 15-16, 2009), which accompanied the exhibition organised...

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Contemporary Art

As Soon As. Open My Eyes. See a Film Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s

Janevski Ana

ISBN: PB: 9788392404439, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
344 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 120 halftones, 40 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! "As soon as I open my eyes I see a film – Experiments in Yugoslav art in the 60s and 70s", edited by Ana Janevski, discussed the key moments in the history of the Yugoslav art scene. In the late 60s and 70s, artists rejected...

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Literary Criticism

Art of the Novel Critical Prefaces

James Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226392059, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James's fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great...

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America

Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century

Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...

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Law

Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Johns Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226401195, ISBN: HB: 9780226401188, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
640 pp., 22.4x15.5 cm, 40 halftones

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of Ameri...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Christianity

Recruiting Young Love How Christians Talk about Homosexuality

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226410449, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm

In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides – from...

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