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Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp

de Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226922386, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 halftones

Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that c...

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Law

Rehabilitating Lochner Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform

Bernstein David E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004044, ISBN: HB: 9780226043531, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
208 pp., 25x15 cm

In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of "Lochner v. New York". This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours and became the le...

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Political Science

Follow the Leader? How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance

Lenz Gabriel S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226472140, ISBN: HB: 9780226472133, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 2 halftones, 64 line illus.

In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-relate...

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History of Art

Philosophy

Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

Hickey Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226333199, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
152 pp., 17.8x15 cm, 8 halftones

"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty – and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismisse...

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Buddhism

Religious Question in Modern China

Goossaert Vincent, Palmer David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005331, ISBN: HB: 9780226304168, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
480 pp., 25x15 cm

Recent events – from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe – vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without atten...

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Philosophy

America

American Nietzsche A History of an Icon and His Ideas

Ratner-Rosenhagen Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226006765, ISBN: HB: 9780226705811, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morali...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

In Time Poets, Poems, and the Rest

Williams C. K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226899510, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his vers...

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Earth Sciences

Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

Merrill Ronald T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006598, ISBN: HB: 9780226520506, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 26 halftones

For the general public, magnetism often seems more the province of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald Merrill reveals in "Our Magnetic Earth", geomagneti...

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Political Science

Democracy and the Left Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

Huber Evelyne, Stephens John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226356532, ISBN: HB: 9780226356525, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 figures, 36 tables

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. In...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon

Lindemann Danielle J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.

Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...

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