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Middle East

Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947

Golani Motti

ISBN: PB: 9781611684506, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham's tenure were tremendously complex political...

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Law

Payback The Case for Revenge

Rosenbaum Thane

ISBN: HB: 9780226726618, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm

We call it justice – the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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Architecture

Purging the Poorest Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Vale Lawrence J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012452, ISBN: HB: 9780226012315, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones, 6 line illus.

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In "Purging the Poorest", Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle t...

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Contemporary Art

Pay for Your Pleasures Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon

Levine Cary

ISBN: HB: 9780226026060, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 halftones, 24 colour illus.

Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon – these Southern California artists formed a "bad boy" trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notorie...

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History of Art

Medieval

Pilgrimage and Pogrom Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria

Merback Mitchell B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520193, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
416 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 122 halftones, 20 colour illus.

In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation fostered tensions between Christians and Je...

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Business & Economics

Political Arithmetic Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

Fogel Robert William, Fogel Enid M., Guglielmo Mark, Grotte Nathaniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226256610, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2013
168 pp., 23x15 cm

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case – economists simply didn't have the nec...

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Women Studies

Europe

Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones

"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...

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Political Science

Pastoral in Palestine

Hertz Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780984201037, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2013
122 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 78 colour illus.

For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations th...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Poetics of Trauma The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Szobel Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9781611683554, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2013
198 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The work of the renowned Israeli poet, translator, peace activist, and 1998 Israel Prize laureate Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005) portrays the emotional structure of a traumatized and victimized female character. Ilana Szobel's book, the first full-le...

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