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Political Science

Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility The Rise of a Global Business Norm

Muhle Ursula

ISBN: PB: 9783593392639, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
390 pp., 21.2x14 cm

Bringing together the fields of sociology, political science, and management and organization studies, Ursula Muhle offers in this unique volume an authoritative overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Muhle first considers the origins of...

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Political Science

Intervention as Indirect Rule Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Veit Alex

ISBN: PB: 9783593393117, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
300 pp., 21.4x14 cm

One of the largest peace-keeping missions currently being undertaken by the United Nations is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN is attempting to deal with the civil wars and other conflicts that have plagued the country since 1996. In...

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Europe

General

Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella A Bilingual Edition

Campanella Tommaso

ISBN: HB: 9780226092058, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his hetero...

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Education

Far Away from the Tigers A Year in the Classroom with Internationally Adopted Children

Katch Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226425788, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
176 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

Over the past three decades, more than a quarter of a million children have become citizens of the United States through international adoption. Kindergarten teacher Jane Katch recently found herself with three such children in her class: Katya, born...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 18

McClure William, Dikken Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9781575866161, ISBN: HB: 9781575866178, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
456 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Because Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The annual Japanese-Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will deepen our...

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Jewish Studies

Culture Studies

Food for Thought Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany

Bernstein Julia

ISBN: PB: 9783593392523, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
451 pp., 21x14 cm, 35 colour illus.

In recent decades, many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. In "Food for Thought", Julia Bernstein conducts a widely interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrant...

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General

Europe

Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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America

Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

Gonzalez Olga M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302713, ISBN: HB: 9780226302706, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 4 maps, 1 table, 31 colour illus.

The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly esc...

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Linguistics

Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Kempson Ruth, Gregoromichelaki Eleni, Howes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781575866147, ISBN: HB: 9781575866154, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
402 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration o...

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