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Business & Economics

Side Effects and Complications The Economic Consequences of Health-Care Reform

Mulligan Casey B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226285603, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 colour plates, 4 halftones, 47 tables

The Affordable Care Act will have a dangerous effect on the American economy. That may sound like a political stance, but it's a conclusion directly borne out by economic forecasts. In "Side Effects and Complications", preeminent labor economist Case...

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Political Science

Second Birth On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence

Schabert Tilo, Ibanez-Noe Javier

ISBN: HB: 9780226038056, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births. Drawing on mythical, philosophical, religious, and political thought from around...

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Jewish Studies

Strangers We Became Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

Kaplan Shamash Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9781611688054, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five wee...

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Nature

Ecology

Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change A Guide to Environmental Decision Making

Norton Bryan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226197456, ISBN: HB: 9780226197319, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 10 line drawings, 3 tables

Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in "Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change". One of the most trafficked terms in...

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Education

Stone Soup Experiment Why Cultural Boundaries Persist

Downing Wilson Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780226289809, ISBN: HB: 9780226289779, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Stone Soup Experiment" is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them...

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Poetry

Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini A Bilingual Edition

Pasolini Pier Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9780226325446, ISBN: HB: 9780226648446, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works – "Arabian Nights", "The Gospel According to Matthew", "The Decameron", and "The Canterbury Tales" among them. What most people are not aware of i...

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Political Science

Secular Faith How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

Smith Mark A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226275062, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 1 table

When Pope Francis recently answered "Who am I to judge?" when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of th...

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America

Sister's Memories The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott

Sorensen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226209616, ISBN: HB: 9780226209586, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in...

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Education

General

Secret Lives of Teachers

ISBN: HB: 9780226313627, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Welcome to "East Hudson", an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have litt...

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Law

Second-Best Justice The Virtues of Japanese Private Law

Ramseyer J. Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226281995, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 55 tables

It's long been known that Japanese file fewer lawsuits per capita than Americans do. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-m...

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