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America

Streets of San Francisco Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972

Lowen Agee Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226378084, ISBN: HB: 9780226122281, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 map

For decades, the city of San Francisco has been nearly synonymous with the word "liberal", known for its diversity and acceptance, environmental activism, and thriving art scene. But this has not always been the case. Liberalism in San Francisco in t...

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Political Science

Second Birth On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence

Schabert Tilo, Ibanez-Noe Javier

ISBN: HB: 9780226038056, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births. Drawing on mythical, philosophical, religious, and political thought from around...

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Political Science

Secular Faith How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

Smith Mark A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226275062, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 1 table

When Pope Francis recently answered "Who am I to judge?" when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of th...

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Political Science

Second Arab Awakening

Muasher Marwan

ISBN: PB: 9780300212631, ISBN: HB: 9780300186390, Yale University Press, May 2015
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending...

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Business & Economics

Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

Bordo Michael D., Humpage Owen F., Schwartz Anna J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables

During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...

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Political Science

Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Shapiro Ian, Clark J. C. D., Calvert Jane E., Botting Eileen Hunt

ISBN: PB: 9780300167450, Yale University Press, December 2014
720 pp., 21x14 cm

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defence of the rights and good sen...

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Political Science

Sing the Rage Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

Chakravarti Sonali

ISBN: HB: 9780226119984, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In "Sing the Rage", Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through...

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Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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Anthropology

Spirits in Politics Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies

Meier Barbara, Steinforth Arne S.

ISBN: PB: 9783593399157, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
265 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Spirits in Politics" explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings. Case studies from across the African continent exemplify how – and at which so...

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Political Science

Systemic Risk The Myth of Rational Finance and the Crisis of Democracy

Willke Helmut, Becker Eva, Rostasy Carla

ISBN: PB: 9783593399881, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
282 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 23 colour plates, 2 halftones

Five years have passed since the outbreak of one of the worst financial crises the world has ever witnessed. Yet, despite the exceedingly diverse range of publications that have sought to explain the causes and the logic of the crisis, central questi...

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