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Business & Economics

Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy

Costa Dora L., Lamoreaux Naomi R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116341, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 69 tables, 27 line illus.

The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and the consensus is that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than others over time. Probing the long-t...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids

Ziegler Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226982977, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 28x28 cm, 165 colour illus.

Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants", and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions". Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness....

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Philosophy

Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...

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Technology & Engineering

Computer Science & Internet

Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future

Pickering Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...

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Judaism

Forsaken The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

Faye Koren Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9781584659822, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2011
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses a central question in the study of Jewish mysticism in the medieval and early modern periods: why are there no known female mystics in medieval Judaism, unlike contemporaneous movements in Christianity and Islam? Sharon Faye Koren...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226669762, ISBN: HB: 9780226669755, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
152 pp., 23x15 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain rea...

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Ancient World

History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Johnstone Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226405094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm

An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at a...

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Political Science

Nixon's Court His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences

ISBN: HB: 9780226561196, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 9 line illus.

Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure – "a counterrevolution that wasn't".Nixon's Court" offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rh...

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Biography & Memoires

Hack Stories from a Chicago Cab

Samarov Dmitry

ISBN: HB: 9780226734736, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 22x14 cm, 66 halftones

Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have st...

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