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Law

Hamburger Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226324630, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is administrative law unlawful? This is a central question in contemporary law and politics, and it has become all the more important with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain li...

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Business & Economics

Capital and Interest

Hayek F. A., White Lawrence H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226274874, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in "Capital and Interest" see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sop...

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History of Art

Brushstroke and Emergence Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

Herbert James D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226272016, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 38 colour plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings

No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic in...

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America

Making the Mission Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco

Howell Ocean

ISBN: HB: 9780226141398, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 60 halftones

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission ha...

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Linguistics

Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension

Hale John T.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867472, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2015
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By relating grammar to cognitive architecture, John T. Hale shows step-by-step how incremental parsing works in models of perceptual processing and how specific learning rules might lead to frequency-sensitive preferences. Along the way, Hale reconsi...

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Business & Economics

Better Bankers, Better Banks Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment

Hill Claire A., Painter Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there's no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copi...

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Evolution

From Eve to Evolution Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

Hamlin Kimberly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324777, ISBN: HB: 9780226134611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

"From Eve to Evolution" provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of ni...

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America

Culture Studies

Riotous Flesh Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

Haynes April R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226284620, ISBN: HB: 9780226284590, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death".Riotous Flesh" explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and p...

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Business & Economics

Education

Myth of Achievement Tests The GED and the Role of Character in American Life

Heckman James J., Humphries John Eric, Kautz Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226324807, ISBN: HB: 9780226100098, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 153 line drawings, 34 tables

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of...

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Political Science

Why Washington Won't Work Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis

Hetherington Marc J., Rudolph Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226299211, ISBN: HB: 9780226299181, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 figures, 29 tables

Polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. But contrary to popular belief, Americans are polarized not so much in their policy preferences as in their feelings toward their political opponents: To an unprecedented degree, Republicans a...

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