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America

Building a Revolutionary State The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783

Pashman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226544014, ISBN: HB: 9780226334356, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed...

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Photography

Object Lessons Zofia Rydet's "Sociological Record"

Pijarski Krzysztof

ISBN: PB: 9788364177378, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, May 2018
280 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 140 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! In 1978, Zofia Rydet (1911-1097) began work on a monumental project that would come to be known as her "Sociological Record": photographing the people of Poland at their homes, she produced an extraordinary archive of around...

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Political Science

Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies

Poast Paul, Urpelainen Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9780226543482, ISBN: HB: 9780226543345, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 21 tables

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democ...

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Business & Economics

Last Resort The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Posner Eric A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226420066, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair – and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars...

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Political Science

Public Policy A Comprehensive Introduction

Potucek Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635569, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potucek draws...

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Philosophy

Ethics and Practice in Science Communication

Priest Susanna, Goodwin Jean, Dahlstrom Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226497815, ISBN: HB: 9780226540603, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

From climate to vaccination, stem-cell research to evolution, scientific work is often the subject of public controversies in which scientists and science communicators find themselves enmeshed. Especially with such hot-button topics, science communi...

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Europe

Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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America

Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America

Pietruska Jamie L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...

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Political Science

Law

Defence of Constitutionalism Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe

Priban Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024634234, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk's study "The Czech Question", Czech politics – instead of the nation's historical struggle for s...

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Anthropology

From Hospitality to Grace A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus

Pitt-Rivers Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780986132520, University of Chicago Press, HAU, December 2017
410 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus" brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes...

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