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Evolution

General

Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Corning Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226004358, ISBN: HB: 9780226116273, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power – and more, the duty – to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us t...

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Business & Economics

Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

Edwards Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780226004662, ISBN: HB: 9780226184784, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources – and a history of productivity and wealth – in recent decades the region has fallen further and further b...

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Political Science

General

Awakening to Race Individualism and Social Consciousness in America

Turner Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226817125, ISBN: HB: 9780226817118, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

The election of America's first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeki...

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Business & Economics

Right Corporate Governance Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593396958, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
324 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 colour illus.

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management – one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. Malik's book is written for...

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Philosophy

Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007748, ISBN: HB: 9780226993355, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
896 pp., 23x15 cm

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial "Plato's Phi...

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Reference

Storycraft The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Hart Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226318165, ISBN: HB: 9780226318141, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 line illus.

From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the "New Yorker" essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach's "Stiff" or Erik Larson's "Devil in the White Ci...

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Christianity

Buddhism

Invention of Religion in Japan

Josephson Jason Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...

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Political Science

Timeline of Presidential Elections How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter

Erikson Robert S., Wlezien Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226922157, ISBN: HB: 9780226922140, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 55 line illus.

With the 2012 presidential election upon us, will voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or will the race for the next president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effe...

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Music

Sibelius A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland

Dawn Goss Glenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226005478, ISBN: HB: 9780226304779, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
549 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 47 musical examples, 36 halftones, 12 colour illus.

One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop o...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Alutiit/Sugpiat A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera

Berezkin Yuri E.

ISBN: HB: 9781602231771, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2012
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.

This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867...

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