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Business & Economics

Europe and the Euro

Alesina Alberto, Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780226012834, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
472 pp., 23x15 cm, 71 tables, 81 line illus.

It is rare for countries to give up their currencies and thus their ability to influence such critical aspects of their economies as interest and exchange rates. Yet ten years ago a number of European countries did exactly that when they adopted the...

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Law

Islam

Expert Witness in Islamic Courts Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law

Shaham Ron

ISBN: HB: 9780226749334, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Islam's tense relationship with modernity is one of the most crucial issues of our time. Within Islamic legal systems, with their traditional preference for eyewitness testimony, this struggle has played a significant role in attitudes toward expert...

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Nature

Ecuador Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual

Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., del Campo Alvaro, Stotz Douglas F., Moskovits Debra K., Caceres Segundo Fuentes, Tapia Byron Coronel, Anderson Elizabeth P.

ISBN: PB: 9780914868736, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2010
318 pp., 27.3x20.7 cm, 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables, 20 colour illus.

The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scienti...

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Law

Business & Economics

Ensuring Corporate Misconduct How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation

Baker Tom, Griffith Sean J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226035154, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line illus.

Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illega...

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Reference

Eloquent Science A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker and Scientist

Schultz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781878220912, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2009
448 pp., 23x17.8 cm, 5 halftones, 20 line drawings, 10 tables

"Eloquent Science" evolved from a workshop aimed at offering atmospheric science students formal guidance in communications, tailored for their eventual scientific careers. Drawing on advice from over twenty books and hundreds of other sources, this...

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Fiction

Everyday Spooks

Michal Karel

ISBN: HB: 9788024614946, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2008
226 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Prague-born Karel Michal (1932-1984) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakia's oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man...

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Jewish Studies

Ethics through Literature Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture

Stock Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781584656999, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2008
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the...

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History of Art

Eskimo Drawings

Jones Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781885267054, University of Chicago Press, February 2008
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm

Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, "Eskimo Drawings" marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive...

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Judaism

Eternally Eve Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry

Lapidus Lerner Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781584655732, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2007
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The biblical accounts of Eve's life are central to Western culture, occupying a privileged place in our literature and art, culture, and society. For both Judaism and Christianity, these stories involving Eve have for centuries been entangled with th...

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Literary Criticism

Essential Wayne Booth

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065922, University of Chicago Press, July 2006
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables

Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of...

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