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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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Mammals

Evolution

Critical Terms for Animal Studies

Gruen Lori

ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...

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Anthropology

Capturing Imagination A Proposal for an Anthropology of Thought

Severi Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780999157008, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2018
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 95 colour plates

We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human charact...

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Philosophy

Care and Cure An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

Stegenga Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226595030, ISBN: HB: 9780226590813, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and "Care and Cure" is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferenc...

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America

Chicago by the Book 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

ISBN: HB: 9780226468501, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 145 colour plates

Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" arose from the midwestern capital's mo...

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Reference

Cite Right A Quick Guide to Citation Styles – MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (Third Edition)

Lipson Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226431109, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Cite Right" is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who...

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Literary Criticism

Country House Revisited Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

Topolovska Tereza

ISBN: PB: 9788024636726, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
178 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From "Howard's End" to "Brideshead Revisited", this book explores the leitmotif of the English country house in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, with a focus on the works of E....

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Mammals

Cow with Ear Tag #1389

Gillespie Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226582856, ISBN: HB: 9780226582719, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 5 line drawings

To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals – animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly beni...

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Anthropology

Classic Concepts in Anthropology

Valeri Valerio

ISBN: PB: 9780990505082, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-1998) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of...

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