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Business & Economics
America
How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
Bouk Dan
ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...
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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
Grindle Douglas
ISBN: HB: 9781612349541, Casemate, Potomac Books, January 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos
In June 2011, the hallways of the district government center in rural Dand District, Afghanistan hummed with activity, with scores of local village elders visiting offices to appeal for assistance and handouts. Outside, insurgents had been pushed out...
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Political Science
Hero's Curse The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
Norman Kajsa
ISBN: HB: 9781849047951, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolivar, to stir popular support. While Bolivar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his affinity for dictatorial rule...
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.
ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...
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Holy Nation The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Crabtree Sarah
ISBN: HB: 9780226255767, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in "Holy Nation" Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Q...
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Hercules in the Cradle War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
Edling Max M.
ISBN: HB: 9780226181578, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings, 18 tables
Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. T...
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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986
Meltzer Allan H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226213514, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 line drawings, 48 tables
Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...
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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969
Meltzer Allan H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226520025, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
696 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 line drawings, 33 tables
Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...
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Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909
Nickerson Sheila
ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps
In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...
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Political Science
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How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000
Springer Melanie Jean
ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables
The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...
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