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Perspectives on Trade and Development

Anne O Krueger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Developing countries typically have wage rates that are a small fraction of those in developed countries. Trade theories traditionally attributed this... Lees meer

Court, Cloister, and City

Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

• Hardcover | Engels
• The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinte... Lees meer

Sexology Uncensored

• Paperback | Engels
• Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late ninetee... Lees meer

Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan

• Paperback | Engels
• Offering a new perspective on global trade relations during the Age of Exploration, Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan explores the relationships between Po... Lees meer

Elsewhere

Alastair Bonnett

• Paperback | Engels
• Explorer and geographer Alastair Bonnett takes us on a thought-provoking tour of the world's most fascinating islands, featuring hand-drawn maps, colo... Lees meer

Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty

• Hardcover | Engels
• Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of s... Lees meer

Threads of Life

Richard Freadman

• Hardcover | Engels
• This work offers an account of how changing theological, philosophical and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing... Lees meer

Lost Property

Jennifer Summit

• Hardcover | Engels
• The English literary canon is haunted by the figure of the lost woman writer. In our own age, she has been a powerful stimulus for the rediscovery of ... Lees meer

Music, Race, and Nation

Peter Wade

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying int... Lees meer

International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices

• Hardcover | Engels | National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and W | nr. 61
• This work includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the IC... Lees meer

All the Rage

Suzanna Danuta Walters

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public l... Lees meer

The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

• Hardcover | Engels | National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
• Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a s... Lees meer

Maps with the News

Mark Monmonier

• Hardcover | Engels
• An assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to t... Lees meer

Negotiating Difference

Michael Awkward

• Hardcover | Engels | Black Literature and Culture
• Encamped within the limits of experience and authenticity, critics today often stake out their positions according to race and ethnicity, sexuality an... Lees meer

A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England

Thomas Hobbes

• Paperback | Engels
• This little-known late writing of Hobbes reveals an unexplored dimension of his famous doctrine of sovereignty. The essay was first published posthumo... Lees meer

Specializing the Courts

Lawrence Baum

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Law and Society
• Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many... Lees meer

Renaissance Characters

• Paperback | Engels
• A synthesis of the work of international scholars, this is an account of the people who animated a decisive period in the genesis of the modern mind -... Lees meer

The Deepest Human Life

Scott Samuelson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. Exploring the works of some of history's most important thinkers in the cont... Lees meer

The Religion of Falun Gong

Benjamin Penny

• Hardcover | Engels
• In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is... Lees meer

Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850

Dianne Dugaw

• Paperback | Engels
• This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of te... Lees meer

The Family Idiot

Jean-Paul Sartre

• Paperback | Engels
• An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume tran... Lees meer

The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition

Carol Fisher Saller

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
• Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to... Lees meer

The Calamity Form

Anahid Nersessian

• Paperback | Engels
• Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth... Lees meer

Defining Nature's Limits

Neil Tarrant

• Hardcover | Engels
• A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era. Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinkin... Lees meer