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Psychology

Educating Intuition

Hogarth Robin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348629, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 7 tables, 3 halftones

In "Educating Intuition", Robin M. Hogarth offers the first comprehensive overview of what the science of psychology can tell us about intuition – where it comes from, how it works, whether we can trust it. He finds that intuition is a normal and imp...

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Architecture

Blueprint for Disaster The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

Hunt D. Bradford

ISBN: PB: 9780226360867, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table, 28 halftones

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago's public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing...

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Criminology

Current Affairs

Seven Shots An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath

Hunt Jennifer C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226360904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. "Seven Shots" tells the...

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Political Science

Strengthening Peace in Post-Civil War States Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders

Hoddie Matthew, Hartzell Caroline A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226351254, ISBN: HB: 9780226351247, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 1 map, 1 line illus.

Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars – from Yugoslavia to Congo – frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approache...

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Political Science

Globalization and the Circumpolar North

Heininen Lassi, Southcott Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781602230781, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
320 pp., 23x15 cm

The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential resource scarcity, its importance will only grow over the next several decades....

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Earth Sciences

Weather on the Air A History of Broadcast Meteorology

Henson Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781878220981, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, July 2010
304 pp., 23x18 cm, 75 halftones, 16 colour illus.

From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives. In "Weather on the Air", meteorologist and science journalist...

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Linguistics

Layers of Aspect

Hofherr Patricia Cabredo, Laca Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781575865966, ISBN: HB: 9781575865973, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2010
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The eight articles in this volume reexamine the syntactic and semantic analyses of aspect that have been proposed mainly on the basis of aspectual expressions in English. The authors contrast expressions sharing an analogous morpho-syntactic make-up...

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Contemporary Art

Great Debate about Art

Harris Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780984201006, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, June 2010
130 pp., 18x11.5 cm

In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of "art for art's sake". This was attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E. M. Forster. It influence...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2009

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

ISBN: HB: 9780226362557, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For forty-nine 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, one that strives to keep...

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Europe

Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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