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Business & Economics

Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume I

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226370477, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2016
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 35 line drawings, 37 tables

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate. These two volumes update t...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume II

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226392493, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 18 line drawings, 28 tables

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate. These two volumes update t...

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Education

Lost Classroom, Lost Community Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America

Brinig Margaret F., Garnett Nicole Stelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226418438, ISBN: HB: 9780226122007, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings, 14 tables

In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools – public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations – have open...

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Music

Cherubino's Leap In Search of the Enlightenment Moment

Kramer Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226377896, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 51 line drawings

For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence o...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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Law

Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails

Mahoney Paul G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...

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Law

General

Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

Edelman Lauren B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...

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Photography

Public Image Photography and Civic Spectatorship

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226342931, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates

Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that m...

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Education

America

Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South

Malczewski Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...

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Criminology

Provisional Authority Police, Order, and Security in India

Jauregui Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9780226403700, ISBN: HB: 9780226403670, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studyi...

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