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Political Science

Arbitrary Rule Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

Nyquist Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226271798, ISBN: HB: 9780226015538, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 14 halftones

Slavery appears as a figurative construct in countless cultural and historical contexts, especially during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radical pamphleteers and theorist...

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Business & Economics

Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

Bordo Michael D., Humpage Owen F., Schwartz Anna J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables

During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...

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Political Science

Politics of Information Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

Baumgartner Frank R., Jones Bryan D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226198125, ISBN: HB: 9780226198095, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 figures, 8 tables

How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search". If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213651, ISBN: HB: 9780226016030, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm

With "Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics'", Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the "Politics" originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristot...

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Political Science

Fallout Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture

Mallard Gregoire

ISBN: HB: 9780226157894, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 12 tables

Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis – a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing...

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Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional Approach to Development

Stein Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226214771, ISBN: HB: 9780226771670, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World...

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Political Science

Lies, Passions, and Illusions The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Furet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226114491, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twent...

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Criminology

Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Burch Traci

ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...

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Europe

Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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Political Science

Good Project Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason

Krause Monika

ISBN: PB: 9780226131368, ISBN: HB: 9780226131221, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 2 tables

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsu...

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