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Political Science

Systemic Risk The Myth of Rational Finance and the Crisis of Democracy

Willke Helmut, Becker Eva, Rostasy Carla

ISBN: PB: 9783593399881, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
282 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 23 colour plates, 2 halftones

Five years have passed since the outbreak of one of the worst financial crises the world has ever witnessed. Yet, despite the exceedingly diverse range of publications that have sought to explain the causes and the logic of the crisis, central questi...

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Poetry

Sailing by Ravens

Hughes Holly

ISBN: PB: 9781602232259, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the moment of our first steps, our lives revolve around finding our way through the world. The paths we choose and the guides we trust can forever change our course. Mariner Holly J. Hughes has spent much of her life on the open sea, experiencin...

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America

Sounds of Capitalism Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226151625, ISBN: HB: 9780226791159, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 24 halftones

From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercial...

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Decorative Arts

Silver Judaica From the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Kuntos Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788087366127, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2014
315 pp., 21.5x16.5 cm, 530 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Jewish Museum in Prague is home to a variety of silver Jewish ritual artifacts, from Kiddush cups, Hanukkah lamps, and Torah decorations, to the dozens of other objects used in observi...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Secular Powers Humility in Modern Political Thought

Cooper Julie E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226081298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the ear...

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Education

Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

Moss Hilary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102986, ISBN: HB: 9780226542492, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 7 tables

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary...

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America

Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect A New History

Glanville Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226076928, ISBN: HB: 9780226076898, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi's forces. In invoking the "responsibility to protect", the resolution draws on the p...

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Gender Studies

Sexual Fields Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life

Green Adam Isaiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226084992, ISBN: HB: 9780226084855, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas...

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Chemistry

History

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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Anthropology

Social Life of Spirits

Blanes Ruy, Espirito Santo Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226081779, ISBN: HB: 9780226081632, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else – symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same wa...

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