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International Bankruptcy The Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy

Kirshner Jodie Adams

ISBN: HB: 9780226531977, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With the growth of international business and the rise of companies with subsidiaries around the world, the question of where a company should file bankruptcy proceedings has become increasingly complicated. Today, most businesses are likely to have...

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Political Science

Reclaiming Accountability Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution

Kitrosser Heidi

ISBN: PB: 9780226565675, ISBN: HB: 9780226191638, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, esp...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 24

Klick Jonathan, Helland Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780226438184, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Supreme Court Economic Review" is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary law and economics series with a particular focus on economic and social science analysis of judicial decision making, institutional analysis of law and legal st...

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Literary Criticism

Looking for "The Stranger" Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226565361, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps

"The Stranger" is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be fou...

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Biography & Memoires

French Lessons A Memoir

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226564555, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
232 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, "French Lessons" is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...

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Christianity

Story of Radio Mind A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land

Klassen Pamela E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226552736, ISBN: HB: 9780226552569, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 57 halftones

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet – Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist – announced a psychic channel by which minds could te...

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Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Legal Logic

Kellogg Frederic R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226523903, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

With "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Legal Logic", Frederic R. Kellogg examines the early diaries, reading, and writings of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) to assess his contribution to both legal logic and general logical theory. Thro...

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Europe

Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries Heritage and Development Strategies

Klusakova Lud'a

ISBN: PB: 9788024636450, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. This book investigates the ramifications of...

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Medieval

Philosophy

Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages

Karnes Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226527598, ISBN: HB: 9780226425313, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imaginatio...

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Film Studies

Movies That Mattered More Reviews from a Transformative Decade

Kehr Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226495682, ISBN: HB: 9780226495545, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the most gifted film critics in America". James Naremore...

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