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Law

Toward a Just World The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice

Jones Dorothy V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102368, ISBN: HB: 9780226409481, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"'Toward a Just World' is an insightful and thoughtful history. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to this fa...

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America

Literary Criticism

War on Words Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

Gilmore Michael T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101699, ISBN: HB: 9780226294131, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm

How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with...

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Gender Studies

Tristan's Shadow Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226082134, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...

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Philosophy

Romantic Absolute Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804

Nassar Dalia

ISBN: HB: 9780226084060, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic amon...

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America

Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect A New History

Glanville Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226076928, ISBN: HB: 9780226076898, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi's forces. In invoking the "responsibility to protect", the resolution draws on the p...

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Music

Composing Japanese Musical Modernity

Wade Bonnie C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226085357, ISBN: HB: 9780226085210, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra – someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper – and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history...

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Education

Business & Economics

Education Policy in Developing Countries

Glewwe Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226078717, ISBN: HB: 9780226078687, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 36 tables

Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and...

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Philosophy

Limits of History

Fasolt Constantin

ISBN: PB: 9780226101248, ISBN: HB: 9780226239101, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
347 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no...

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Business & Economics

Globalization in an Age of Crisis Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century

Feenstra Robert C., Taylor Alan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226030753, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 60 line drawings, 12 tables

Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recessions past, new policy initiatives emerged, approaches that placed greater importance on protecting nationa...

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Gynecology

Public Health

Rhetoric of Pregnancy

Seigel Marika

ISBN: HB: 9780226071916, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you're pregnant and can afford one, you're going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From "What to Expect When You're Expecting" to "Pregnancy for Dummies", these guides act as portable mentors for women who want...

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