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Political Science

Intervention as Indirect Rule Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Veit Alex

ISBN: PB: 9783593393117, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
300 pp., 21.4x14 cm

One of the largest peace-keeping missions currently being undertaken by the United Nations is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN is attempting to deal with the civil wars and other conflicts that have plagued the country since 1996. In...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2010 Volume 11

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473383, ISBN: HB: 9780226473376, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Innovation Policy and the Economy" series provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. Issues covered in Volume 11 are an exploration of innovation challenges in the health care...

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Poetry

I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets

Sexton Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602231191, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
59 pp., 22.6x15 cm

This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry – which has been a key influence on his work – into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. The...

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Poetry

In Spite of the Dark Silence

Volpi Jorge

ISBN: HB: 9780974888187, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2011
120 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice". So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders...

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Literary Criticism

Ideas in Things Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Freedgood Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226261638, ISBN: HB: 9780226261553, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
208 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 halftones

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages".The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequen...

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Nature

Imperial Nature Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science

Endersby Jim

ISBN: PB: 9780226207926, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first – and most successful – British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Islands of Privacy

Nippert-Eng Christena E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586533, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables, 2 halftones

Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personal information are undeniable. But t...

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Poetry

Ice Floe New & Selected Poems

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602230835, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ice Floe", the celebrated and award-winning journal of circumpolar poetry, is here reborn as an annual book series. This first volume features the best of the journal's first seven years, along with evocative new poetry from Alaska, Canada, Iceland,...

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Islam

Medieval

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati Houari

ISBN: HB: 9780226808772, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures – touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North...

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Business & Economics

International Differences in Entrepreneurship

Lerner Josh, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226473093, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 tables, 52 line illus.

Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market....

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