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Literary Criticism

One Kind of Everything Poem and Person in Contemporary America

Chiasson Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226103839, ISBN: HB: 9780226103815, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
208 pp., 21.3x14 cm

"One Kind of Everything" elucidates the uses of autobiography and constructions of personhood in American poetry since World War II, with helpful reference to American literature in general since Emerson. Taking on one of the most crucial issues in A...

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Poetry

Seeing Double Baudelaire's Modernity

Meltzer Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9780226519883, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
280 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture".Seeing Double" reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Economics of Climate Change Adaptations Past and Present

Libecap Gary D., Steckel Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479880, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 47 tables, 3 halftones, 86 line illus.

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which econo...

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Performing Arts

Shaping Society through Dance Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes

Mendoza Zoila S.

ISBN: DVD: 9780226520070, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
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During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colorful dance troupes, or comparsas. With their masks, music, and surprising interpretations of...

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2010 Volume 7

Clarida Richard H., Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9780226107387, ISBN: HB: 9780226107363, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
500 pp., 22x15 cm, 60 line illus.

Covers such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, global business cycles, currency carry trades, asymmetric shocks in currency unions, and studies of the recent financial crisis.

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History

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Evolution

Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm

Donohue Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226157719, ISBN: HB: 9780226157702, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
512 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 tables, 34 halftones, 70 line illus.

Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands – the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most famil...

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History

Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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Law

Collateral Knowledge Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets

Riles Annelise

ISBN: PB: 9780226719337, ISBN: HB: 9780226719320, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through...

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America

Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

Gustafson Sandra M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226311296, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practic...

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