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Contemporary Art

Doris Salcedo

Widholm Julie Rodrigues, Grynsztejn Madeleine

ISBN: HB: 9780226244587, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
240 pp., 27.9x22.3 cm, 105 colour plates

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and...

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Europe

De-Stalinisation Reconsidered Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union

Bohn Thomas M., Einax Rayk, Abesser Michel

ISBN: PB: 9783593501666, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
276 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...

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Architecture

Situaciones Urbanas

Cirugeda Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9788461183425, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, February 2015
120 pp., 27.9x15.2 cm, illustrated throughout

Santiago Cirugeda is an atypical architect placed on the verge of political activism and art. Far from a theorist, Cirugeda tests and implements his ideas directly on the ground. Over the past fifteen years, he has developed his work through meticulo...

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Music

Civic Jazz American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along

Clark Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226218212, ISBN: HB: 9780226218182, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that...

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Education

Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Link Albert N., Siegel Donald S., Wright Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226178349, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to m...

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Fiction

Bitter Wormwood

Kire Easterine

ISBN: PB: 9789381017029, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2015
276 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood – the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. Rich in culture and history, "Bitter Wormwood" traces t...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy

Hulten Charles R., Reinsdorf Marshall B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226204260, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 45 line drawings, 81 tables

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of...

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Political Science

Business & Economics

Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

Bordo Michael D., Humpage Owen F., Schwartz Anna J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables

During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...

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History

Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Medieval

Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

Mills Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226169125, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 11 colour plates, 78 halftones

During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical"‌ or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature". How, though, did these categories enter the field of...

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