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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012 Volume 27

Acemoglu Daron, Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226052809, ISBN: HB: 9780226052779, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-seventh edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" continues a tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical contributions that shed light on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic researc...

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Earth Sciences

Novel Science Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Buckland Adelene

ISBN: HB: 9780226079684, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 9 colour illus.

"Novel Science" is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men,...

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Europe

Nazi Symbiosis Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich

Weiss Sheila Faith

ISBN: PB: 9780226055718, ISBN: HB: 9780226891767, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones

The Faustian bargain – in which an individual or group collaborates with an evil entity in order to obtain knowledge, power, or material gain – is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world-renowned human geneticists and the Nazi state. U...

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Political Science

Normality of Civil War Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola

Koloma Beck Teresa

ISBN: PB: 9783593397566, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
150 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "The Normality of Civil War", Teresa Koloma Beck uses theories of the everyday to analyze the social processes of civil war, specifically the type of conflict that is characterized by the expansion of violence into so-called normal life. She looks...

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Music

Not without Madness Perspectives on Opera

Della Seta Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9780226749143, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 musical examples, 8 tables

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension betw...

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Ecology

Nature All Around Us A Guide to Urban Ecology

Beisner Beatrix, Messier Christian, Giraldeau Luc-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226922751, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 78 line illus.

It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, a...

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History of Art

Nature Drawings of Peter Karklins

Kirkland Sean D.

ISBN: PB: 9780978907457, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, August 2012
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 1 colour plate, 34 halftones

The German-born, Chicago-based Latvian artist Peter Karklins creates small, pencil-and-paper drawings that capture the processes and energies just below the surface of all human life. The complexity of his organic forms is matched by the artist's met...

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General

Law

Not Just Roommates Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

Pleck Elizabeth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671048, ISBN: HB: 9780226671031, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 15 halftones

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In "Not Just Roommates", Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed...

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General

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Yack Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226944678, ISBN: HB: 9780226944661, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of...

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Fiction

Naked Singularity A Novel

Pava De La Sergio

ISBN: PB: 9780226141794, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
688 pp., 23x15 cm

"A Naked Singularity" tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender – one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of...

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