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Business & Economics

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226441139, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The research papers in Volume 30 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" make significant contributions to the academic literature in public finance and provide important conceptual and empirical input to policy design. In the first paper, Gerald Carlino and...

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History

Territories of Science and Religion

Harrison Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226478982, ISBN: HB: 9780226184487, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and relig...

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Reference

Thinking Like a Political Scientist A Practical Guide to Research Methods

Howard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226327549, ISBN: HB: 9780226327402, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 figures, 9 tables

Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on researc...

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General

Thinking Through Methods A Social Science Primer

Levi Martin John

ISBN: PB: 9780226431727, ISBN: HB: 9780226431697, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 2 tables

Sociological research is hard enough already – you don't need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desp...

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Christianity

Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529884, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A distinctive feature of Christian culture in early Islamic Syria and Palestine was a renewed interest in literature on martyrs, which represented a potential reaction among some Christian communities to the rise of Islam in the region. The adaption...

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Gender Studies

Music

Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music

Hutchinson Sydney

ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...

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General

Therapeutic Revolutions Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Greene Jeremy A., Condrau Flurin, Siegel Watkins Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226390871, ISBN: HB: 9780226390734, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 5 tables

When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight dis...

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Physics

History

To Save the Phenomena An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo

Duhem Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780226169217, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics-an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Chri...

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Anthropology

Music

Tango Machine Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

Luker Morgan James

ISBN: PB: 9780226385549, ISBN: HB: 9780226385402, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music – it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan...

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Philosophy

Timeliness of George Herbert Mead

Joas Hans, Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226376943, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today".The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead" brings tog...

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