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Business & Economics

Gallman Robert E., Rhode Paul W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226633114, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 line drawings, 132 tables

When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926-1998) gathered...

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General

Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila

Garrido Marco Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Final Teaching

Gillespie Michael Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226684758, ISBN: HB: 9780226476889, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the best-selling and most widely read philosophical work of all time, as well as six additional works that are today considered required rea...

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America

General

Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Gordon Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Richard Rorty The Making of an American Philosopher

Gross Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226676487, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as "one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers." Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experience...

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Architecture

Importance of Being Urban Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940

Gamson David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226634548, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 table

For half a century – from the 1890s through World War II – the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power, but in urban school districts and classrooms".The Importance of Being Urb...

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History

Membranes to Molecular Machines Active Matter and the Remaking of Life

Grote Mathias

ISBN: HB: 9780226625157, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, June 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 23 halftones

Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic "channels" in our brain cells' membranes open and close; when we run, tiny "motors" in our muscle c...

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Europe

Political Science

Limits of Transnationalism

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Political Science

Law

Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)

Gerhardt Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...

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Nature

Ecology

Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne, Wohlhauser Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables

In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...

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