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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2015 Volume 16

Kerr William R., Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226391854, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2016
256 pp., 23x15 cm

The papers in the sixteenth volume of the National Bureau of "Economic Research's Innovation Policy and the Economy" offer insights into the changing landscape of innovation by highlighting recent developments in the financing of innovation and entre...

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Political Science

America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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Political Science

America

Inside the Presidential Debates Their Improbable Past and Promising Future

Minow Newton N., LaMay Craig L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434322, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 tables

Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a "vast wasteland", thus inaugur...

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Asia

Islam

Islam Translated Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Ronit Ricci

ISBN: PB: 9780226380537, ISBN: HB: 9780226710884, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 3 maps, 4 halftones

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporati...

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Law

Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Second Edition)

Calavita Kitty

ISBN: PB: 9780226296586, ISBN: HB: 9780226296449, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutio...

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Entomology

Infested How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226361086, ISBN: HB: 9780226041933, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 6 line drawings

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vu...

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Middle East

Islam

Islam in Liberalism

Massad Joseph A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379548, ISBN: HB: 9780226206226, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship...

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Chemistry

History

Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

Powers John C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Idol Structures Sculptures and Photographs by Matt Siber

Siber Matt, Raskin David, Harris Gregory J.

ISBN: PB: 9780985096014, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, March 2016
50 pp., 22.8x30.5 cm, 20 colour plates

"Idol Structures" accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum of recent photographs and sculptures by Chicago-based artist Matt Siber, whose work explores the systems of corporate and mass-media communication that permeate the urban landscape....

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America

Law

Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens

Manaster Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226350103, ISBN: HB: 9780226502434, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In "Illinois Justice", Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice's...

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