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Business & Economics

Varieties of Family Business Germany and the United States, Past and Present

Berghoff Hartmut, Kohler Ingo

ISBN: PB: 9783593512464, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 60 halftones, 30 tables, 20 figures

The idea of a business owned by a family and passed down from generation to generation sits firmly in our cultural imagination. And family businesses are of central importance in both Germany and in the United States. Still, there are significant dif...

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Contemporary Art

Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour

Graw Isabelle, Menke Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...

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Architecture

Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction

Glauser Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones

More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...

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Europe

Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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