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Literary Criticism

Ideas in Things Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Freedgood Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226261638, ISBN: HB: 9780226261553, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
208 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 halftones

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages".The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequen...

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General

Marriage and Cohabitation

Thornton Arland, Axinn William G., Xie Yu

ISBN: PB: 9780226798677, ISBN: HB: 9780226798660, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 16 line illus.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women...

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Political Science

Islam

Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9780226805757, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation – exacerbated by terrorist attack...

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Law

Czech Law between Europeanization and Globalization

Tomasek Michal

ISBN: HB: 9788024617855, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
600 pp., 24.1x17 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 2005 the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic granted to the Charles University Law Faculty funds to research developments in Czech law from the last twenty yea...

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Business & Economics

Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386850, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 figures, 82 tables, 1 halftone

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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Film Studies

Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia Film Culture in Transition

Rosenbaum Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226726656, ISBN: HB: 9780226726649, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subje...

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Biography & Memoires

Astronomy

On Sunspots

Galilei Galileo, Scheiner Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9780226707167, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
410 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 108 halftones

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or m...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Business & Economics

Out of the Pits Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Zaloom Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226978147, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
238 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Out of the Pits", Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finan...

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