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Political Science

Follow the Leader? How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance

Lenz Gabriel S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226472140, ISBN: HB: 9780226472133, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 2 halftones, 64 line illus.

In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-relate...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon

Lindemann Danielle J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.

Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...

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Law

Political Science

This Is Not Civil Rights Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America

Lovell George I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226494043, ISBN: HB: 9780226494036, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone

Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2011 Volume 12

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473406, ISBN: HB: 9780226473390, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors look at policies that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scien...

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Business & Economics

Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226473031, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
632 pp., 25x15 cm, 54 tables, 1 halftone, 49 line illus.

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to th...

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Law

Lawyers in Practice Ethical Decision Making in Context

Levin Leslie C., Mather Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226475165, ISBN: HB: 9780226475158, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused pri...

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Jewish Studies

Jews Welcome Coffee Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

Liberles Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781611682465, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2012
190 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Tracing the introduction of coffee into Europe, Robert Liberles challenges long-held assumptions about early modern Jewish history and shows how the Jews harnessed an innovation that enriched their personal, religious, social, and economic lives. Foc...

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Other

Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Contemporary Art

Re: Chicago

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907433, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, February 2012
86 pp., 29.5x19.8 cm, 29 figures, 41 colour illus.

For over a century the Chicago art community has struggled to define itself in relation to other urban art centers. While prominent American artists past and present have had strong connections to Chicago, many left to make their reputations elsewher...

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