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Business & Economics

Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis

Alesina Alberto, Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780226018447, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
704 pp., 23x15 cm, 120 tables, 30 halftones, 108 line illus.

The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multiplie...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Fabulous Feminist A Suniti Namjoshi Reader

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789381017333, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2013
252 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "Saint Suniti and...

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Poetry

Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish

Weiner Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226017013, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x14 cm

At the heart of Joshua Weiner's new book is an extended poem with a bold political dimension and great intellectual ambition. It fuses the poet's point of view with Walt Whitman's to narrate a decentered time-traveling collage about Rock Creek, a tri...

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Philosophy

Forgiveness

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226045658, ISBN: HB: 9780226392134, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Philosopher Vladimir Jankelevitch has only recently begun to receive his due from the English-speaking world, thanks in part to discussions of his thought by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur. His international readers have long val...

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Other

From The Holy Land to Graceland Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives

Vikan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9781933253725, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
202 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 130 colour illus.

According to medievalist Gary Vikan, Graceland is much more than a wildly popular tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock 'n' Roll. In this fascinating new book, Vikan posits that...

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Islam

General

Finding Mecca in America How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion

Bilici Mucahit

ISBN: PB: 9780226049571, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 6 line illus.

The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America...

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America

Fur Farms of Alaska Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede

Crawford Isto Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231719, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2012
230 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 50 halftones

After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being s...

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Business & Economics

From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226922713, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are...

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Evolution

General

Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Corning Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226004358, ISBN: HB: 9780226116273, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power – and more, the duty – to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us t...

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Political Science

Follow the Leader? How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance

Lenz Gabriel S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226472140, ISBN: HB: 9780226472133, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 2 halftones, 64 line illus.

In a democracy, we generally assume that voters know the policies they prefer and elect like-minded officials who are responsible for carrying them out. We also assume that voters consider candidates' competence, honesty, and other performance-relate...

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