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Business & Economics

CEO Leadership Navigating the New Era in Corporate Governance

Cole Thomas A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226665160, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Corporate governance for public companies in the United States today is a fragile balance between shareholders, board members, and CEOs. Shareholders, who are focused on profits, put pressure on boards, who are accountable for operations and profitab...

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Literary Criticism

Character Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

Anderson Amanda, Felski Rita, Moi Toril

ISBN: PB: 9780226658667, ISBN: HB: 9780226658520, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, "Character"...

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Film Studies

Cinemachines An Essay on Media and Method

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: PB: 9780226656731, ISBN: HB: 9780226656564, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 1 line drawing

The hero stands on stage in high-definition 3-D while doubled on a crude pixel screen in "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk". Alien ships leave Earth by dissolving at the conclusion of "Arrival". An illusory death spiral in "Vertigo" transitions abrup...

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America

Clashing over Commerce A History of US Trade Policy

Irwin Douglas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226678443, ISBN: HB: 9780226398969, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
862 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevit...

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Law

Conservative Case for Class Actions

Fitzpatrick Brian T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226659336, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable. Yet years of attacks by corporate America and unfavorable rulings by the Supreme Court have left its future uncertain. In this book, Brian T. Fitzp...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy

Vormann Boris, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones

The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry Channeling Wittgenstein

Gunnell John G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226661278, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive pract...

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Contemporary Art

Creative Chicago An Interview Marathon

Obrist Hans Ulrich, Cuddy Alison

ISBN: PB: 9780932171672, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2019
192 pp., 22.8x17.1 cm, 100 colour plates

On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy...

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Contemporary Art

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront

Anderson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...

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Anthropology

Cultural Histories of the Material World

Miller Peter N.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792186, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, November 2019
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, "Cultural Histories of the Material World" provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspecti...

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