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Sacred Mandates Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan

Brook Timothy, van Walt van Praag Michael, Boltjes Miek

ISBN: PB: 9780226562766, ISBN: HB: 9780226562629, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning".Sacred Mandates", edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, red...

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Political Science

General

Emotions of Protest

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables

In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...

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Europe

Exile in London The Experience of Czechoslovakia and the Other Occupied Nations, 1939-1945

Smetana Vit, Geaney Kathleen Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9788024637013, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historian...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 32

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226577524, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The six research studies in Volume 32 of Tax Policy and the Economy analyze the U. S. tax and transfer system, in particular its effects on revenues, expenditures, and economic behavior. First, James Andreoni examines donor advised funds, which are f...

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Literary Criticism

Views from the Inside Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989)

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635927, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fasc...

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Poetry

Everything I Kept Todo Lo Que Guarde

Behar Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780997228724, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, May 2018
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, language: English / Spanish, 10 halftones

Moving between the speech and silence of a woman struggling to speak freely, Ruth Behar embarks on a poetic voyage into her own vulnerability and the sacrifices of her exiled ancestors as she tries to understand love, loss, regret, and the things we...

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General

Failed Individual Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity

Motyl Katharina, Schober Regina

ISBN: PB: 9783593507828, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
399 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? "The Failed Indivi...

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Reference

Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Ninth Edition)

Turabian Kate L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226430577, ISBN: HB: 9780226494425, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 22 line drawings, 12 tables

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamen...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Fishing Lessons Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226307459, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 9 line drawings

Fish bones in the caves of East Timor reveal that humans have systematically fished the seas for at least 42,000 years. But in recent centuries, our ancient, vital relationship with the oceans has changed faster than the tides. As boats and fishing t...

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Philosophy

Forgotten Sense Meditations on Touch

Maurette Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226561479, ISBN: HB: 9780226561332, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones

Of all the senses, touch is the most ineffable – and the most neglected in Western culture, all but ignored by philosophers and artists over millennia. Yet it is also the sense that links us most intimately to the world around us, from our mother's c...

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