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Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust Africa in Comparison

Geschiere Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226047614, ISBN: HB: 9780226047584, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Dante's "Inferno", the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in "Witchcraft, Intimac...

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012 Volume 9

Giavazzi Francesco, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226053271, ISBN: HB: 9780226053134, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for over thirty years. The topics covered in this year's volume fall into four categories: exchange rates, global business cycles, the financial crisis, and unemploy...

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Philosophy

Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: HB: 9780226039480, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss" takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. Laurence Lampert focuses on exotericism: the use of artful rhe...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Hollywood & God

Polito Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226103655, ISBN: HB: 9780226673394, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
88 pp., 21.5x15.2 cm

"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing – even lurid – hallucination. From the "Baltimore Catechism" to the great noir films of t...

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Political Science

General

Politics of Belonging Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

Masuoka Natalie, Junn Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226057163, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 15 tables

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political i...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Blessing Same-Sex Unions The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102535, ISBN: HB: 9780226410333, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by "Modern Brid...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Post-Ethical Society The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular

Porpora Douglas V., Nikolaev Alexander, Hagemann May Julia, Jenkins Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226062495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables

We've all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interroga...

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Business & Economics

Housing and the Financial Crisis

Glaeser Edward L., Sinai Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226030586, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 125 line drawings, 68 tables

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no differ...

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Business & Economics

Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else Selected Writings

Davis Harry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226111131, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leade...

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Biography & Memoires

Culture Studies

You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...

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