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Poetry

Troy, Unincorporated

Abbate Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226001203, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
88 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in "Troy, Unincorporated" offer a retelling, or refraction, of Chaucer's tragedy "Troilus and Criseyde". The tale's unrooted charact...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2011 Volume 26

Acemoglu Daron, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002163, ISBN: HB: 9780226002149, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
440 pp., 23x15 cm

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

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Philosophy

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226026756, ISBN: HB: 9780226026749, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel the Politics, is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics – that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and...

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Medieval

Authoring the Past History, Autobiography, and Politics in Medieval Catalonia

Aurell Jaume

ISBN: HB: 9780226032320, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
328 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 2 maps, 1 table

"Authoring the Past" surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and pol...

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Literary Criticism

Geographies of Philological Knowledge Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic

Altschul Nadia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226016214, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

"Geographies of Philological Knowledge" examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, edito...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis

Allhoff Fritz

ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...

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Literary Criticism

Enlightenment Orientalism Resisting the Rise of the Novel

Aravamudan Srinivas

ISBN: PB: 9780226024493, ISBN: HB: 9780226024486, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent q...

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Political Science

Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict

Atzili Boaz

ISBN: PB: 9780226031361, ISBN: HB: 9780226031354, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 halftones, 5 line illus.

Border fixity – the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory – has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relatio...

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Business & Economics

Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

Allen Douglas W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226014746, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 2 line illus.

Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Eur...

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History

Literary Criticism

Fictions of the Cosmos Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Ait-Touati Frederique

ISBN: HB: 9780226011226, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 5 halftones, 2 line illus.

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so...

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