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Business & Economics

Money Problem Rethinking Financial Regulation

Ricks Morgan

ISBN: PB: 9780226528120, ISBN: HB: 9780226330327, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a 'public' or 'private' activity –...

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Anthropology

Eskimo Tribes Their Distribution and Characteristics, Specially in Regard to Language. With a Comparative Vocabulary, and a Sketch-Map

Rink H.

ISBN: PB: 9788763514064, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
316 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The purpose of the first section of this book is to show what conclusions it is possible to draw from the mode of life, the customs and usages of the Eskimo, so far as regards the migrations by which they have spread over their present territory. But...

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Music

Flip the Script European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

Rollefson J. Griffith

ISBN: PB: 9780226496214, ISBN: HB: 9780226496184, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it...

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Business & Economics

Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

Ramanna Karthik

ISBN: PB: 9780226528090, ISBN: HB: 9780226210742, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 10 tables

Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the det...

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Political Science

World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Cookbooks

Jewish Studies

German-Jewish Cookbook Recipes and History of a Cuisine

Rossmer Gropman Gabrielle, Gropman Sonya

ISBN: HB: 9781611688733, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This cookbook features recipes for German-Jewish cuisine as it existed in Germany prior to World War II, and as refugees later adapted it in the United States and elsewhere. Because these dishes differ from more familiar Jewish food, they will be a d...

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Women Studies

Biography & Memoires

Mothers of Manipur Twelve Women Who Made History

Rehman Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9789384757762, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On July 15, 2004, twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, positioned themselves in front of the gates of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, India – the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. One by one, the women stripped the...

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Film Studies

Representing Talent Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies

Roussel Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226486949, ISBN: HB: 9780226486802, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering p...

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Architecture

St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle

Royt Jan, Kuthan Jiri

ISBN: HB: 9788024631295, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
550 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 315 colour plates, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle" is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemian kings and to this day is a leading Christian cathedral,...

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America

Melting the Ice Curtain The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier

Ramseur David

ISBN: PB: 9781602233348, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 1 map

Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988...

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