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Political Science

Systemic Risk The Myth of Rational Finance and the Crisis of Democracy

Willke Helmut, Becker Eva, Rostasy Carla

ISBN: PB: 9783593399881, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
282 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 23 colour plates, 2 halftones

Five years have passed since the outbreak of one of the worst financial crises the world has ever witnessed. Yet, despite the exceedingly diverse range of publications that have sought to explain the causes and the logic of the crisis, central questi...

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Music

Composing Japanese Musical Modernity

Wade Bonnie C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226085357, ISBN: HB: 9780226085210, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra – someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper – and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history...

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Political Science

Democracy against Development Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

Witsoe Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226063478, ISBN: HB: 9780226063164, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 8 tables

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Van Gogh on Demand China and the Readymade

Won Yin Wong Winnie

ISBN: PB: 9780226024899, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones

In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million pa...

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Philosophy

Ideas Have Consequences Expanded Edition

Weaver Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090061, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, "Ideas Have Consequences" uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read a...

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Biography & Memoires

Kurt Wolff A Portrait in Essays and Letters

Wolff Kurt

ISBN: PB: 9780226104805, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 figures

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two conti...

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America

Protocols of Liberty Communication Innovation and the American Revolution

Warner William B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226061375, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 14 line drawings

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred "in the minds and hearts of the people" before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication a...

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Biography & Memoires

Triumph of Human Empire Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

Williams Rosalind

ISBN: HB: 9780226899558, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 11 halftones

In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Memory Fragments of a Modern History

Winter Alison

ISBN: PB: 9780226084541, ISBN: HB: 9780226902586, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you're remembering incorrectly? And where have...

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Europe

Athene Palace Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania

Waldeck R. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086330, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 map

On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opp...

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