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Biography & Memoires

To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey

Fischer Victor, Wohlforth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...

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Law

Toward a Just World The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice

Jones Dorothy V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102368, ISBN: HB: 9780226409481, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"'Toward a Just World' is an insightful and thoughtful history. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to this fa...

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Gender Studies

Tristan's Shadow Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226082134, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...

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Political Science

Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups

Anzia Sarah F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086811, ISBN: HB: 9780226086781, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings, 28 tables

Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elec...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226097794, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2013
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the "fiscal cliff". Given the importance of fiscal issues, it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue. In keeping with the NBER's tradition of carrying out r...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel

Stiegler Bernd

ISBN: HB: 9780226774671, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
264 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 83 halftones

Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explor...

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Education

Toxic Schools High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

Paulle Bowen

ISBN: PB: 9780226066417, ISBN: HB: 9780226066387, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest...

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Philosophy

Thinking about Ordinary Things A Short Invitation to Philosophy

Sokol Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024622293, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
220 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this compact yet informative book, former dissident, occasional politician, software developer, and noted Czech philosopher, Jan Sokol offers a way to teach young radical students about...

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World

Literary Criticism

Trade and Romance

Murrin Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226071572, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 table

In "Trade and Romance", Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows...

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America

Tolerant Populists, Second Edition Kansas Populism and Nativism

Nugent Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226054087, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the or...

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