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Last Resort The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
ISBN: HB: 9780226420066, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings
The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair – and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars...
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Liberal Suppression Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech
ISBN: HB: 9780226521947, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These spee...
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£41,00
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Looking for "The Stranger" Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
ISBN: PB: 9780226565361, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps
"The Stranger" is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be fou...
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Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226541419, ISBN: HB: 9780226520346, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-1993) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identiti...
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£67,50
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Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...
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£37,50
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£112,50
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Language and Prehistory of the Indo-European Peoples A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9788763545310, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2018
350 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 4 colour plates, 7 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings
Our knowledge of neolithic and bronze age Europe is growing rapidly, and this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of the language and history of the peoples of that period. The editors have taken a deliberately cross-disciplinary ap...
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£61,50
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Legacies of Losing in American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226515328, ISBN: HB: 9780226515298, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also...
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Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...
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Losers Dream On
ISBN: PB: 9780226533599, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...
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Legislative Style
ISBN: PB: 9780226510286, ISBN: HB: 9780226510149, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 26 tables
Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage wi...
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