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Moral Neoliberal Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

Muehlebach Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226545400, ISBN: HB: 9780226545394, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neol...

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Media Studies

America

Theater of the Mind Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama

Verma Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226853512, ISBN: HB: 9780226853505, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "theater of the mind". This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In "Theater...

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Women Studies

Islam

Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies

Raghavan Chitra, Levine James P.

ISBN: PB: 9781611682809, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessaril...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

Benjamin Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226042381, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
674 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A "natura...

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Business & Economics

Crisis and Control Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation

Mayntz Renate

ISBN: PB: 9783593396712, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
299 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In reaction to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published herein sh...

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Linguistics

Identity, Language, and Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry

Newen Albert, van Riel Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9781575866420, ISBN: HB: 9781575866437, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal identity, and consciousness. Looking particularly at th...

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Anthropology

Designing Human Practices An Experiment with Synthetic Biology

Rabinow Paul, Bennett Gaymon

ISBN: PB: 9780226703145, ISBN: HB: 9780226703138, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 tables

In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center – a facility established t...

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Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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Dogs

Sport

Skijor with Your Dog

Kaynor Carol, Hoe-Raitto Mari

ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm

Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...

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Culture Studies

Beauty and the Beast

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226789866, ISBN: HB: 9780226789859, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 36 halftones

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their b...

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