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Law

Valuing Life Humanizing the Regulatory State

Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226780177, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables

The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States's regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we can hu...

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America

History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226520025, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
696 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 line drawings, 33 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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History

Galileo's Idol Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge

Wilding Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226166971, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 6 halftones

Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, d...

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Europe

Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: HB: 9780226140926, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 12 line drawings, 29 tables

All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt t...

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Children's Books

Mary's Wild Winter Feast

Lindoff Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9781602232327, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
40 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

When winter rain washes away Mary's chances for a sledding day, she thinks there is no hope for excitement. But with a little imagination and a brimming pantry she soon finds herself caught up in a colorful journey. Together with her father she reliv...

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General

Becoming Mead The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226171401, ISBN: HB: 9780226171371, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book "Mind, Self, and Society", which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however...

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Jewish Studies

Zionist Paradox Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity

Schwartz Yigal

ISBN: HB: 9781584658948, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive disson...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Autonomy After Auschwitz Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity

Shuster Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780226155487, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy – the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves – has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human freedom. But could our commitment to autonomy, as Theod...

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Literary Criticism

Poor Tom Living "King Lear"

Palfrey Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226150642, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
280 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"King Lear" is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king – Edgar – has often seemed little more than a blank, ign...

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Philosophy

Natural Questions

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226748399, ISBN: HB: 9780226748382, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...

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