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Music

Robert Schumann The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Geck Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226284699, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line illus.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury...

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Business & Economics

Right Corporate Governance Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593396958, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
324 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 colour illus.

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management – one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. Malik's book is written for...

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Law

Rehabilitating Lochner Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform

Bernstein David E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004044, ISBN: HB: 9780226043531, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
208 pp., 25x15 cm

In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of "Lochner v. New York". This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours and became the le...

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Buddhism

Religious Question in Modern China

Goossaert Vincent, Palmer David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005331, ISBN: HB: 9780226304168, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
480 pp., 25x15 cm

Recent events – from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe – vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without atten...

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Nature

Ecology

Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu Region, Southwestern Suriname

O'Shea Brian J., Alonso Leeanne E., Larsen Trond H.

ISBN: PB: 9781934151501, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, October 2012
156 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 44 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from a Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu region of southwestern Suriname. Focusing particularly on the plant and animal species important to the indigenous Trio people, this survey establishes baseline...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

Reading the World Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age

Franklin-Brown Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226260686, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 21 halftones, 5 colour illus.

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias". Variously referred to as a "speculum", "thesaurus", or "imago mundi" – the term encyclopedia was no...

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Anthropology

Reproductive Technologies as Global Form Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters

Knecht Michi, Klotz Maren, Beck Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593391007, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
320 pp., 22x14 cm

In the thirty years since the first "test-tube baby", in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in developed nations – and, increasingly, throughout the world. This col...

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Political Science

Rational Empires Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion

Blanken Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226056746, ISBN: HB: 9780226056739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
218 pp., 25x15 cm, 4 tables, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

The nineteenth century marked the high point of imperialism, when tsarist Russia expanded to the Pacific and the sun was said never to set on the British Empire. Imperialism remains a perennial issue in international relations today, and nowhere is t...

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Other

Religion of Falun Gong

Penny Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780226655017, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights a...

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Linguistics

Reference and Reflexivity Second Edition

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781575865249, ISBN: HB: 9781575865232, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
275 pp., 22x14 cm

In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new second edition, Perry has added a new preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics an...

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