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  • DEADLINE: POPULISM AND THE PRESS IN VENEZUELA -50%
    DEADLINE: POPULISM AND THE PRESS IN VENEZUELA
    ROBERT SAMET
    Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and instead emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicolás Maduro, took the opposite approach, declaring an all-out war on crime (u003ciu003emano d...
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  • THE MORAL NEOLIBERAL
    THE MORAL NEOLIBERAL
    ANDREA MUEHLEBACH
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in u003ciu003eThe Moral Neoliberalu003c/iu003e morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of volunt...
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  • THE COMMON PLACE OF LAW
    THE COMMON PLACE OF LAW
    PATRICIA EWICK / SUSAN S. SILBEY
    Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than four hundred people of diverse backgrounds in order to explore the different ways th...
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    Q. 555

  • RULES VERSUS RELATIONSHIPS
    RULES VERSUS RELATIONSHIPS
    JOHN M. CONLEY / WILLIAM P. BARR
    In u003ciu003eRules versus Relationshipsu003c/iu003e, John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr examine the experiences of litigants seeking redress of everyday difficulties through the small claims courts of the American legal system. The authors find two major and contrasting ways in which litigants formulate and express their problems in terms of specific rule violations and seek...
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    Q. 575

  • EMOTION AND MEANING IN MUSIC
    EMOTION AND MEANING IN MUSIC
    LEONARD B. MEYER
    "Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, u003ciu003eJournal of Music Theoryu003c/iu0...
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    Q. 500

  • SHORT STORIES FIVE DECADES
    SHORT STORIES FIVE DECADES
    IRWIN SHAW
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    Q. 240

  • PLANET OF THE BUGS
    PLANET OF THE BUGS
    SHAW, SCOTT RICHARD
    Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space - where, Shaw proposes, insect - like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence. This book spins an account of insects' evolution from humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know and love (or fear and hate) today. ...
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    Q. 280

  • AMERICAN DIPLOMACY (ANNIVERSARY, EXPANDED)
    AMERICAN DIPLOMACY (ANNIVERSARY, EXPANDED)
    GEORGE FROST KENNAN
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    Q. 330

  • THE ANTI-FEDERALIST: AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE COMPLETE ANTI-FEDERALIST
    THE ANTI-FEDERALIST: AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE COMPLETE ANTI-FEDERALIST
    HERBERT STORING
    Herbert J. Storing's "Complete Anti-Federalist," hailed as "a civic event of enduring importance" (Leonard W. Levy, "New York Times Book Review"), indisputably established the importance of the Anti-Federalists' writings for our understanding of the Constitution. As Storing wrote in his introduction, "If the foundation of the American polity was laid by the Federalists, the Ant...
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    Q. 250

  • THE ILIAD OF HOMER
    THE ILIAD OF HOMER
    HOMERO / RICHMOND LATTIMORE
    This long-awaited new edition is designed to bring the book into the 21st century--while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verses--with their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greek--remain unchanged, but classicist Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new gener...
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    Q. 155

  • GREEK TRAGEDIES, VOLUME 1
    GREEK TRAGEDIES, VOLUME 1
    RICHMOND LATTIMORE / MARK GRIFFITH / DAVID GRENE
    Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides’s “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press under...
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    Q. 120

  • GREEK TRAGEDIES, VOLUME 2
    GREEK TRAGEDIES, VOLUME 2
    DAVID GRENE / RICHMOND LATTIMORE / MARK GRIFFITH
    Greek Tragedies, Volume II contains Aeschylus’s “The Libation Bearers,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Electra,” translated by David Grene; Euripides’s “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; Euripides’s “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule; and Euripides’s “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the ...
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    Q. 120

  • GREEK TRAGEDIES, VOLUME 3
    GREEK TRAGEDIES, VOLUME 3
    DAVID GRENE / RICHMOND LATTIMORE / MARK GRIFFITH
    Greek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides’s “Alecestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the University of ...
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    Q. 120

  • ON THE HEIGHTS OF DESPAIR
    ON THE HEIGHTS OF DESPAIR
    E.M. CIORAN
    acket Description/Back:Born of a terrible insomnia which E. M. Cioran called 'a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell, ' this book presents the young philosopher, a self-described 'Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights. An exorcism of despair, this book offers insights into the i...
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    Q. 415

  • THE MOST POWERFUL IDEA IN THE WORLD: A STORY OF STEAM, INDUSTRY, AND INVENTION
    THE MOST POWERFUL IDEA IN THE WORLD: A STORY OF STEAM, INDUSTRY, AND INVENTION
    WILLIAM ROSEN
    Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its center. But how did the belief that one could own an idea come about? And how did that belief change the way humankind lives and works?William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea, seeks to answer these questions and more with The Most Powerful Idea in the World. A lively and passi...
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    Q. 180

  • THE CHEMICAL AGE:
    THE CHEMICAL AGE:
    VON HIPPEL, FRANK A
    "It has been nearly 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson brought to light evidence of the devastating ecological effects of pesticides. This book, by Frank von Hippel, is a sweeping history of these chemicals and our complicated relationship with them. It shows how they've made the modern world possible, while at the same time threatening its ...
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    Q. 295

  • CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM
    CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM
    MILTON FRIEDMAN
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    Q. 185