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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2017 Volume 32

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226577661, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
496 pp., 23x15 cm

Volume 32 of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual features six theoretical and empirical studies of important issues in contemporary macroeconomics, and a keynote address by former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard. In one study, SeHyoun Ahn, Greg Kapl...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry in a World of Things Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis

Eisendrath Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780226516615, ISBN: HB: 9780226516585, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the...

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Political Science

Structure of Policy Change

Epp Derek A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529721, ISBN: HB: 9780226529691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 10 tables

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the Red Scare seized the American public. While President Eisenhower cautioned restraint, his hand was forced, and NASA's budget had increased five thousand percent over its pre-Sputnik levels by the time Presi...

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Media Studies

Africa

Gogo Breeze Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Englund Harri

ISBN: PB: 9780226498935, ISBN: HB: 9780226498768, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy ove...

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Literary Criticism

Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

Eden Kathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226526645, ISBN: HB: 9780226184623, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
180 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancien...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Dark Matter of the Mind The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

Everett Daniel L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526782, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables

Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things beca...

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Film Studies

Herzog by Ebert

Ebert Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780226500423, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge mat...

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Performing Arts

Dumb Type Reader

Eckersall Peter, Scheer Edward, Shintaro Fujii

ISBN: PB: 9788763544931, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 20 colour plates

From the 1980s into the early 2000s, the Japanese group Dumb Type mounted multimedia performances that broke substantial new ground in new media dramaturgy and influenced countless performers to follow. This book gathers essays on the group's work, a...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Towards an Aesthetics of Production

Egenhofer Sebastion

ISBN: PB: 9783037348857, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
208 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 48 halftones

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles D...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2016 Volume 31

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226490199, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2017
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The thirty-first edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" features theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. The first two papers are rigorous and data-driven analyses of the European financial crisis. Th...

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