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Fiction

Dame An Alan Grofield Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770390, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
198 pp., 20x13 cm

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake...

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Political Science

Perils of Global Legalism

Posner Eric A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226675756, ISBN: HB: 9780226675749, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 line illus.

The first months of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America will increasingly promote the international rule of law – a position that many believe is both ethically nec...

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Anthropology

Reference

Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

Narayan Kirin

ISBN: PB: 9780226568195, ISBN: HB: 9780226568188, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
168 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer – but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In "Alive in the Writing" – an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis – anthropologist an...

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General

Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090863, ISBN: HB: 9780226090849, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables

The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era – religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemper...

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Philosophy

Uncivil Unions The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226136936, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm

"What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard".Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership... or is it a little of all that?" Like Kierkegaard a...

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Poetry

Raptor

Feld Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226240398, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
88 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

"Raptor", the second book by the author of the widely praised "Citizen", is a collection of formal poems and measured free verse unified by its investigation of our ancient poetic, mythic, and scientific fascination with birds of prey: hawks, eagles,...

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Culture Studies

Reproduction by Design Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

McLaren Angus

ISBN: HB: 9780226560694, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm

Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a...

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Business & Economics

Intended and Unintended Effects of US Agricultural and Biotechnology Policies

Graff Zivin Joshua S., Perloff Jeffrey M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226988030, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 56 tables, 47 line illus.

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of...

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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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Computer Science & Internet

Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866345, ISBN: HB: 9781575866352, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2012
441 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald E. Knuth's seminal publications, such as "Selected Papers on Fun and Games" and "Selected Paper on the Design of Algorithms", have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists, and his award-winning textbooks have become...

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