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Political Science

Negotiating in Civil Conflict Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq

Ala Hamoudi Haider

ISBN: PB: 9780226068824, ISBN: HB: 9780226315348, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Ir...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Poetry and Its Others News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres

Ramazani Jahan

ISBN: PB: 9780226083568, ISBN: HB: 9780226083735, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system – "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse", in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in "Poetry and Its Others", Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemp...

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Philosophy

Death Penalty, Volume I

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226144320, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this newest installment in Chicago's series of Jacques Derrida's seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the...

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Europe

Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada

Nunez Muley Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780226103037, ISBN: HB: 9780226547268, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 2 maps

Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century – including the forced conversion of its native Muslim populatio...

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Medieval

Europe

Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226104324, ISBN: HB: 9780226781679, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neglecting the role of the inquisitors themselves. In this volume, Karen Sullivan sheds much-needed light...

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Business & Economics

Economy of Words Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks

Holmes Douglas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226087627, ISBN: HB: 9780226087597, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Markets are artifacts of language – so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have be...

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Anthropology

Social Life of Spirits

Blanes Ruy, Espirito Santo Diana

ISBN: PB: 9780226081779, ISBN: HB: 9780226081632, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else – symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same wa...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Earth Sciences

Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

O'Connor Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...

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Business & Economics

General

Job-Search Games Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences

Sharone Ofer

ISBN: PB: 9780226073538, ISBN: HB: 9780226073361, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Today 4. 7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent....

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Music

Jazz on the River

Howland Kenney William

ISBN: PB: 9780226102672, ISBN: HB: 9780226437330, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 map

Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer mon...

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