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America

In Hock Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression

Woloson Wendy A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226905686, ISBN: HB: 9780226905679, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 39 halftones

The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, "In Hock" demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic t...

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Philosophy

Intuition in Medicine A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning

Braude Hillel D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226071664, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human. In this bold and timely book, Hillel D. Braude marshals his dual training as a physician and philosopher to examine the plac...

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Photography

Europe

Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...

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Law

Interpretation of Law in China Roots and Perspectives

Tomasek Michal, Muhlemann Guido

ISBN: HB: 9788024619606, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2012
204 pp., 23.1x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In March 2009, the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, together with the University of Zurich, organized a seminar on Chinese legal culture. As a follow up to this event the pa...

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Fiction

IN & OZ A Novel

Tomasula Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226807447, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
152 pp., 21.6x11.4 cm

Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasula's style, "IN & OZ" is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subve...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2011 Volume 12

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473406, ISBN: HB: 9780226473390, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors look at policies that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scien...

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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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Anthropology

Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska New Edition

Krauss Michael, Holton Gary, Kerr Jim, Thor West Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781555001131, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
720 pp., 49x33 cm

This exquisitely illustrated and extensive map charts the peoples and languages of Alaska natives. The author, who founded the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and directed it until 2000, was responsible for assembl...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel, Jordan, and Palestine The Two-State Imperative

Susser Asher

ISBN: PB: 9781611680393, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed...

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Business & Economics

Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

Allen Douglas W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226014746, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 2 line illus.

Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Eur...

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