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BOOKS
Select recent books by Buffett Center affiliates
2010
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News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance
Pablo J. Boczkowski, Communication Studies
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Boczkowski explains why, despite an ever-increasing access to news media, the diversity of the news that is available has decreased. The author compares two newspapers from Buenos Aires with similar outlets in the United States to understand the evolution of the supply and demand of the news in the contemporary (information) era. |
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Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach
Bruce G. Carruthers, Sociology, et al.
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Published at the height of the global financial crisis, this book offers a sociological perspective on money and credit. The editors consider the social meaning of money and credit at the individual and corporate levels, and draw conclusions about how both will continue to drive the future of the economy. |
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Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
Clare Cavanagh, Slavic Languages and Literatures
(Yale University Press, 2010)
Cavanagh offers a comparative study of modern poetry from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In so doing, she offers several correctives to the conventional understanding of the role of lyric poetry in totalitarian states such as Russia and Poland. |
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Globalizing American Studies
Brian Edwards, English, et al.
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)
This edited volume puts forth a set of essays that develop a more globalized approach to American studies. The authors offer several examples of the international circulation of American culture throughout history and develop a new standard for the discipline’s transnational aspirations. |
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The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies
Peter Hayes, History, et al.
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
This multi-disciplinary work examines the rapidly emerging field of Holocaust Studies, considering in turn the enabling conditions, the primary protagonists, the sites of the Holocaust, how it has been studied and interpreted, and its after effects. |
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Imagination Without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility
Laura Hein, History, et al.
(University of Michigan East Asia Center Press, 2010) |
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Berbers and Others: Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib
Katherine Hoffman, Anthropology, et al.
(Indiana University Press, 2010)
This edited volume sheds light on contemporary forms of social and political activism in the Northern African region of the Maghrib. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Berbers and Others examines how Berber groups have peacefully sought for recognition in the areas of the arts, politics, education, and national memory. |
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Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Political Science, et al.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
The edited volume considers the potentially divisive relationship between political authorities and religion by exploring how the varieties of secularism provide different spaces for religion in the public sphere. Comparative Secularisms brings together a wide range of scholars to study secularisms in France, India, Turkey, and the United States. |
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Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance
D. Soyini Madison, Performance Studies
(Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Development:
Spanish America in Comparative Perspective
James Mahoney, Political Science
(Cambridge University Press, 2010) |
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Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China
Benjamin Page, Political Science, et al.
(Columbia University Press, 2010)
The authors find that most Americans favor peaceful engagement with China. They favor free trade with the country and believe that the United States should balance Chinese power rather than attempt to challenge it via military action on issues such as the defense of Taiwan. |
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