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Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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Photography

Europe

Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...

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Architecture

Culture Studies

Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America

Doss Erika

ISBN: PB: 9780226159416, ISBN: HB: 9780226159386, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
480 pp., 23x15 cm, 161 halftones

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally...

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Philosophy

Uncivil Unions The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226136936, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm

"What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard".Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership... or is it a little of all that?" Like Kierkegaard a...

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General

Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...

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Europe

Children of the Greek Civil War Refugees and the Politics of Memory

Danforth Loring M., Boeschoten Riki

ISBN: PB: 9780226135991, ISBN: HB: 9780226135984, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 11 halftones

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversarie...

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Evolution

Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind The Early Writings of Charles Darwin

Darwin Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226136592, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
252 pp., 22x14 cm, 9 halftones

First published in 1974 as a companion volume to "Darwin on Man" by Howard E. Gruber, Paul Barrett's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation. According to Stephen Jay Gould...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Philosophy

Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226144290, ISBN: HB: 9780226144283, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures".With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1", the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Ion Grigorescu In the Body of the Victim

Dziewanska Marta

ISBN: PB: 9788392404415, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2011
312 pp., 23.5x18 cm, 177 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The book "Ion Grigorescu. In the body of the victim" is an attempt to read the works of one of the most charismatic and original artists from the former Eastern bloc, who until 1989 worked in relative isolation, and whose ar...

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