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Business & Economics

Currency Statecraft Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition

Cohen Benjamin J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226587721, ISBN: HB: 9780226587691, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks. How countries whose currency gains international appeal...

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Business & Economics

Cigarettes, Inc. An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

Enstad Nan

ISBN: PB: 9780226533315, ISBN: HB: 9780226533285, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Too often, notions of capitalist change rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity – for good or ill – to the rest of the world. In "Cigarettes, Inc"., Nan Enstad creates an in...

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Political Science

Billionaires and Stealth Politics

Page Benjamin I., Seawright Jason, Lacombe Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables

In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...

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Jewish Studies

Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Rabinowitz Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781512603095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed...

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Genetics

Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics

Rheinberger Hans-Jorg, Muller-Wille Staffan

ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...

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General

Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia

McKee Guian A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598420, ISBN: HB: 9780226560120, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, "The Problem of Jobs" reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rat...

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Europe

History of the Czech Lands Second Edition

Panek Jaroslav, Tuma Oldrich

ISBN: PB: 9788024622279, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
650 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 80 halftones, 23 colour maps, 8 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Born January 1, 1993 after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside it...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Receptive Bodies

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226579764, ISBN: HB: 9780226579627, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 halftones

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book around a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin idea...

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Women Studies

Europe

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

Leong Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...

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Political Science

Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic

Lomazoff Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...

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