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Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics"
ISBN: PB: 9780226213651, ISBN: HB: 9780226016030, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm
With "Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics'", Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the "Politics" originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristot...
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Human Capital in History The American Record
ISBN: HB: 9780226163895, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2014
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables
America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capita...
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Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
ISBN: PB: 9789383074761, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
466 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
The right to equality regardless of gender or caste is fundamental in India. Yet even the Indian government has acknowledged that the institutional forces arrayed against this right are powerful – and, what's more, that they shape people's mindsets i...
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£28,00
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Crime and Justice, Volume 42 Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025
ISBN: PB: 9780226105925, ISBN: HB: 9780226097510, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. Among the results four decades later are the world's harsh...
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To Forget Venice
ISBN: PB: 9780226181264, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"To Forget Venice" is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is b...
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Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings
In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...
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Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza y Condena
ISBN: PB: 9780983322023, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2014
180 pp., 20.3x13 cm
A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodriguez crafted his 1965 "Alliance and Condemnation", a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence – the "bounty that...
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Romantic Machine Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
ISBN: PB: 9780226214801, ISBN: HB: 9780226812205, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
450 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones
In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's e...
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Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuninit / Inupiaq to English Dictionary
ISBN: HB: 9781602232334, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
1018 pp., 26.6x21.6 cm, 1 map, 25 line drawings
This is a comprehensive treatment of one of Alaska's oldest ancestral languages. Through its 19,000 entries and thirty-one appendices – with categories such as kin terms, names of constellations, and a list of explanations – the dictionary is an exce...
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£52,00
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Climate Conundrums What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us
ISBN: PB: 9781935704744, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings
It is generally assumed that, in polite company, you don't talk politics, religion, or money. But in recent years, it seems "climate change"‌ needs to be added to that list. Incorporating all of the above, few topics can divide a dinner party faster....
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