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Jewish Studies

Anti-Semitic Moment A Tour of France in 1898

Birnbaum Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780226052069, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy. In Paris and provincial villages throughout the country, angry crowds paraded through the streets, threatening to attack Jews and destroy Jewish-owned businesses. Anger about...

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America

Evolution

Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America

Werth Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226893846, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm

In "Banquet at Delmonico's", Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a...

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Political Science

Securing Approval Domestic Politics and Multilateral Authorization for War

Chapman Terrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101224, ISBN: HB: 9780226101217, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
208 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 19 tables, 11 line illus.

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare. How their military will fare against the opponent may be the first consideration, but not far behind are concerns about domestic...

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Philosophy

In Search of Goodness

Grant Ruth W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226306834, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
192 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

The recent spate of books and articles reflecting on the question of evil might make one forget that the question of just what constitutes goodness is no less urgent or perplexing. Everyone wants to think of him- or herself as good. But what does a g...

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General

Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence Selected Papers

Tarde Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780226789712, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
332 pp., 20.1x13.5 cm

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his cont...

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Law

Habeas for the Twenty-First Century Uses, Abuses, and the Future of the Great Writ

King Nancy J., Hoffmann Joseph L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226436975, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 2 tables, 8 line illus.

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time – among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the d...

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Education

Governing Educational Desire Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China

Kipnis Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226437552, ISBN: HB: 9780226437538, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
224 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined – until now".Governing Educational Desire" explores the cultural, political, and econo...

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Law

Theory of Rules

Llewellyn Karl N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487953, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
168 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerou...

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Culture Studies

Chicago A Biography

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644288, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
472 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 145 halftones

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make". Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders". Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle", while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City". At...

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Film Studies

Minding Movies Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking

Bordwell David, Thompson Kristin

ISBN: PB: 9780226066998, ISBN: HB: 9780226066981, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
312 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are two of America's preeminent film scholars. You would be hard pressed to find a serious student of the cinema who hasn't spent at least a few hours huddled with their seminal introduction to the field – "Film Ar...

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