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Law

Supreme Court Review 2014

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226269061, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. An in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, "The Supreme Court Review" keeps at...

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Philosophy

Tunguska, or the End of Nature A Philosophical Dialogue

Hampe Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226123127, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings

On June 30, 1908, a mysterious explosion erupted in the skies over a vast woodland area of Siberia. Known as the Tunguska Event, it has been a source of wild conjecture over the past century, attributed to causes ranging from meteors to a small black...

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Culture Studies

General

Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Harks Tobias, Vehlken Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...

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Philosophy

Objectivity and Diversity Another Logic of Scientific Research

Harding Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780226241364, ISBN: HB: 9780226241227, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be...

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America

General

Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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Evolution

Haeckel's Embryos Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Hopwood Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226046945, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
392 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 202 colour plates, 2 tables

Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Er...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy

Hulten Charles R., Reinsdorf Marshall B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226204260, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 45 line drawings, 81 tables

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of...

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Media Studies

Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media

Hansen Mark B. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226199726, ISBN: HB: 9780226199696, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In "Feed-Forward", Mark B. N. Hansen sho...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Education

Democratic Constitution for Public Education

Hill Paul T., Jochim Ashley E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226200682, ISBN: HB: 9780226200545, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 tables

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school – something...

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