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Culture Studies

Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America

Tepper Steven J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226792873, ISBN: HB: 9780226792866, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
384 pp., 25x15 cm, 38 tables, 8 line illus.

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art...

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2010 Volume 7

Clarida Richard H., Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9780226107387, ISBN: HB: 9780226107363, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
500 pp., 22x15 cm, 60 line illus.

Covers such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, global business cycles, currency carry trades, asymmetric shocks in currency unions, and studies of the recent financial crisis.

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Photography

Media Studies

No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2010 Volume 25

Acemoglu Daron, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002132, ISBN: HB: 9780226002125, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm

"The NBER Macroeconomics Annual" features theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of macroeconomics, addressing central issues within the discipline. These issues range from short-run macroeconomic fluctuations to international economic...

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Poetry

New Letters to a Young Poet

Margarit Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780974888194, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 19.8x13.2 cm

In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem – the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic "Letters to a Youn...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color

Lee David

ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.

Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...

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Nature

Ecology

Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226306803, ISBN: HB: 9780226306797, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 5 tables, 69 halftones

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a com...

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Business & Economics

Next-Generation Leadership A Toolkit for Teens and Twenty- and Thirty-Year-Olds

Byron William J.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662216, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
291 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Drawing on his five decades of leadership experience, William Byron outlines in this volume the theory, practice, and purpose of leadership. Intuition, humility, empathy, simplicity of lifestyle, and sound speaking and writing skills are all essentia...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow A Guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive

Fishman David E., Kupovetsky Mark, Kuzelenkov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781589662209, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

During their ascendency and subsequent occupation of much of Europe, the Nazis plundered the documents and cultural treasures of Jewish organizations as well as other groups and individuals they deemed to be enemies of the Reich. When the Nazis were...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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