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America

History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213514, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 line drawings, 48 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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America

History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226520025, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
696 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 line drawings, 33 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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Architecture

Polonica

House as Open Form: The Hansens' Summer Residence in Szumin Dom jako Forma Otwarta. Szumin Hansenow

Kedziorek Aleksandra, Springer Filip, Smaga Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788364177149, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, August 2014
200 pp., 27.1x19.8 cm, 120 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! This beautifully illustrated volume offers a photographic tour of the iconic house of Polish architect couple: Oskar Hansen, member of Team 10, and his wife, Zofia. Located in Szumin in central Poland and designed in 1968, t...

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Performing Arts

Literary Criticism

Humoring the Body Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

Kern Paster Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226213828, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism – blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm – early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In "Humoring the Body", Gail K...

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Business & Economics

Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective

White Eugene N., Snowden Kenneth, Fishback Price

ISBN: HB: 9780226073842, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 50 tables

The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Hard-Core Romance "Fifty Shades of Grey", Best-Sellers, and Society

Illouz Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226153698, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
104 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From its beginnings in "Twilight" fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million...

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America

Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

Nickerson Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...

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Political Science

America

How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000

Springer Melanie Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables

The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...

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Africa

Having People, Having Heart Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

Scherz China

ISBN: PB: 9780226119670, ISBN: HB: 9780226119533, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But i...

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Mammals

How Animals Grieve

King Barbara J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155203, ISBN: HB: 9780226436944, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of ot...

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