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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Earth Great Events, Great Politics

Shapiro Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780226394459, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche's thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Volume 30

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226395609, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2016
448 pp., 23x15 cm

This year, the NBER Macroeconomics Annual celebrates its thirtieth volume. The first two papers examine China's macroeconomic development".Trends and Cycles in China's Macroeconomy" by Chun Chang, Kaiji Chen, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha outlines...

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Political Science

Natural Goodness of Man On the System of Rousseau's Thought

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226519791, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man". It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigor...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Journey to Sorrento Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit

D'Iorio Paolo

ISBN: HB: 9780226164564, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

"When for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky", Nietzsche wrote, "it was like a shiver, as though pitying myself for starting my life by being old, and the tears came to me and the feeling of having...

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America

Nut Country Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Miller Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421216, ISBN: HB: 9780226205380, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today". That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city th...

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General

Culture Studies

New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...

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History

Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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General

America

Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society

Krasovic Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...

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Medieval

Neighboring Faiths Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

Nirenberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226379852, ISBN: HB: 9780226168937, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In "Neighboring Faiths", David Nirenberg examines...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Naive Readings Reveilles Political and Philosophic

Lerner Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780226353296, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they h...

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