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Supreme Court Review 2013

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226158730, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
366 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions".The Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront of...

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Political Science

Europe

Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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Music

Philosophy

Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?

Higgins Kathleen Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...

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General

Crucibles of Black Empowerment Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington

Helgeson Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226130699, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer...

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Linguistics

Core and Periphery Data-Driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag

Hofmeister Philip, Norcliffe Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9781575867212, ISBN: HB: 9781575867205, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Core and the Periphery" is a collection of papers inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013), written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. Sag was professor of linguistics at Stanford University from 1979 to 201...

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History

Global Communication Electric Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy

Hampf M. Michaela, Muller-Pohl Simone

ISBN: PB: 9783593399539, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
386 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and pattern...

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Political Science

Justice and Peace Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Relationship

Hellmann Gunther

ISBN: PB: 9783593399829, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
196 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Justice and peace are key concepts in the discourse of many academic disciplines. Conceptually, they are obviously linked, but perennial disputes surround the question of their interdependence and whether priority must be accorded to justice or peace...

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Poetry

Sailing by Ravens

Hughes Holly

ISBN: PB: 9781602232259, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the moment of our first steps, our lives revolve around finding our way through the world. The paths we choose and the guides we trust can forever change our course. Mariner Holly J. Hughes has spent much of her life on the open sea, experiencin...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian

Hall Jonathan M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096988, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
280 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 26 halftones, 29 line drawings, 10 tables

Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To ans...

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History

Outsider Scientists Routes to Innovation in Biology

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226078403, ISBN: HB: 9780226078373, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings

"Outsider Scientists" describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose prim...

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