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Business & Economics

Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else Selected Writings

Davis Harry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226111131, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leade...

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Political Science

Wartime President Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat

Howell William G., Jackman Saul P., Rogowski Jon C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226048390, ISBN: HB: 9780226048253, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 31 tables

"It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority", wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American...

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Philosophy

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

Laugier Sandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226470542, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
160 pp., 23x15 cm

Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Stanley Cavell to French readers – but until now her...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

When Peace Is Not Enough How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice

Omer Atalia

ISBN: PB: 9780226008103, ISBN: HB: 9780226008073, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
376 pp., 23x15 cm

The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland. Born in adversity but purportedly nurtured by liberal ideals, Israel has neve...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Women in the Club Gender and Policy Making in the Senate

Swers Michele L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226022826, ISBN: HB: 9780226022796, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 tables, 10 line illus.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "war on women",‌ while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually...

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Reference

Writing Science in Plain English

Greene Anne E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226026374, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
136 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in "Writing Science in Plain English",writers from all scientific disciplines can learn to produce clear, concise prose by mastering just a few simple p...

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Women Studies

Women Changing India

Butalia Urvashi, Roy Anita

ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...

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America

West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire

Purcell Munley Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662124, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2013
100 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In early 1947 residents of the west side of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began noticing a peculiar steam escaping from the ground. An investigation into this phenomenon revealed that Carbondale was slowly but steadily being destroyed by a burning inferno...

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Gender Studies

America

West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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Chinese

Written on Bamboo and Silk The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition

Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin

ISBN: PB: 9780226814162, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 26 halftones, 4 line illus.

Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this now-classic paleographic study of China, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien traces the developme...

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