The Hayekian Prism
By Bruce Caldwell. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Xi + 489 pgs. Review appearing in the Spring 2004 issue of Bruce Caldwell has adopted a sensible strategy to cope with the formidable task he has set himself. Friedrich Hayek was not only one ... [... more]
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The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
 for soldiers or graduate students?: I've long nutured a private grievance against FM 3-24, which suddenly broke surface when I read this delicious comment by Steve Cole in The New Yorker this week: "Its reception reflected ... the appeal of counter- [... more]
$15.00
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Joan Schwartz
Joan Schwartz is a graduate of Rutgers University and received an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She has worked as an editor for the University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, Macmillan Publishing Company, and The Free Press. ... [... more]
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Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of ...
More Insight into Victorian Science: The University of Chicago Press continues its string of first-rate publications relating to Victorian science with this outstanding volume. As I have mentioned in other reviews, Victorian science affords an invaluable [... more]
$35.00
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The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: ...
Author: Carl Schmitt Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 320.1 EAN: 9780226738949 Edition: University of Chicago Press Ed ISBN: 0226738949 Number Of Pages: 184 Publication Date: 2008-10-15 [... more]
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Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen: Men in Community ...
What Makes a Man?: Hennen, Peter. "Faeries, Bears and Leathermen: Men in Community Queering the Masculine", University of Chicago Press, 2008. What Makes a Man? Amos Lassen People have identified homosexuality as effeminacy and those of us in [... more]
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Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic ...
History via swinging batons: This is not your typical history book; lots of action, violence, swearing--in other words, real life as it was in the 1960s. Kusch writes that the police did not riot or lose control of themselves, which sounds like a stretch, [... more]
$16.00
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My Family and Other Saints
bruisingly honest memoir: I commend kirin narayan for her ability to write such an honest account of her youth. Her experience as a part indian, part american girl growing up in Bombay was very interesting. She has filled the pages with honesty, humor, [... more]
$22.50
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Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story
Author: Dan Vittorio Segre Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 945.004924092 EAN: 9780226744773 Edition: University of Chicago Press Ed ISBN: 0226744779 Number Of Pages: 284 Publication Date: 2008-04-01 [... more]
$17.00
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, ...
Tales of Toponyms: No "Nigger" has been on the US map for fifty years, and most instances of "Squaw" and "Jap" were eliminated shortly thereafter, but we still have the occasional "Wop" or "Chink". You [... more]
$16.00
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The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after ...
This book will shake you up: Much writing on higher education falls into predictable categories, such as moralistic (sometimes voyeuristic) screeds about debased student culture or high-minded praise of the transformative power of the liberal arts. Tim [... more]
$20.00
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The Hunter: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
Despite myself...: "The Hunter" is a noir-type genre novel evocative of this writing style circa 1960. The plot line, the character development (or, more accurately, the lack thereof), the spare writing style, predictable violence and hard core [... more]
$14.00
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