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Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins John Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226004525, ISBN: HB: 9780226148830, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
152 pp., 22x14 cm

Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers". John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war". Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more than ever". For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinh...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France

Douthwaite Julia V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226160580, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones, 2 line illus.

The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book...

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World

Culture Studies

Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Klemek Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...

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Nature

Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska

Huryn Alexander, Hobbie John

ISBN: PB: 9781602231818, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2012
311 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 620 colour illus.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries

Arrunada Benito

ISBN: HB: 9780226028323, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 line illus.

Governments and development agencies spend considerable resources building property and company registries to protect property rights. When these efforts succeed, owners feel secure enough to invest in their property and banks are able use it as coll...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium

Cole K. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113470, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
416 pp., 25x15 cm, 13 halftones

How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questio...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 26

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923451, ISBN: HB: 9780226923444, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2012
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There is no question that the US is facing significant fiscal challenges".Tax Policy and the Economy" research papers make valuable contributions to our understanding of the economic effects of alternative approaches. The papers collected in Volume 2...

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Reference

Dictionaries

University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary Sixth Edition: Diccionario Universidad de Chicago Ingles-Espanol, Sexta Edicion

Pharies David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666969, ISBN: HB: 9780226666952, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
626 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than sixty years, "The University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary" has set the standard for concise bilingual dictionaries. Now thoroughly revised to reflect the most current vocabulary and usage in both languages, this dictionary enab...

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America

Business & Economics

Building a Market The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960

Harris Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226317663, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 62 halftones, 5 line illus.

Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable t...

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Fiction

Chinese Maze Murders A Judge Dee Mystery

van Gulik Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226848785, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
336 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor's garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. The Chin...

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