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Political Science

Negotiating in Civil Conflict Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq

Ala Hamoudi Haider

ISBN: PB: 9780226068824, ISBN: HB: 9780226315348, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Ir...

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Photography

I Am Alaskan

Adams Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781602232136, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2013
216 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates

What does an Alaskan look like? When asked to visualize someone from Alaska, the image most people conjure up is one of a face lost in a parka, surrounded by snow. Missing from this image is the vibrant diversity of those who call themselves Alaskans...

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Education

Law

Student's Guide to Law School What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters

Ayers Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226067056, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, "A Student's Guide to Law School" is li...

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Political Science

Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice

Arceneaux Kevin, Johnson Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226047300, ISBN: HB: 9780226047270, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
244 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 figures, 31 tables

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote – or mouse – we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choic...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012 Volume 27

Acemoglu Daron, Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226052809, ISBN: HB: 9780226052779, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-seventh edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" continues a tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical contributions that shed light on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic researc...

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Culture Studies

Gusto for Things A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Ago Renata

ISBN: HB: 9780226010571, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 56 tables, 38 halftones

We live in a material world – our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a...

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Biography & Memoires

Archaeology & Paleontology

American Egyptologist The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute

Abt Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226045344, ISBN: HB: 9780226001104, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
536 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 4 maps, 128 halftones

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tom...

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Philosophy

Contesting Nietzsche

Acampora Christa Davis

ISBN: HB: 9780226923901, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, sh...

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Business & Economics

Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis

Alesina Alberto, Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780226018447, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
704 pp., 23x15 cm, 120 tables, 30 halftones, 108 line illus.

The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multiplie...

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Education

Gendered Paradoxes Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress

Adely Fida

ISBN: PB: 9780226006918, ISBN: HB: 9780226006901, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. T...

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