The University of Chicago Magazine: In Their Own Wordstag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2008-02-07:/books//72009-11-20T18:51:55ZAlumni publications submitted to the MagazineMovable Type Publishing Platform 4.0Lonesome: The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitudetag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12632009-11-20T18:50:42Z2009-11-20T18:51:55Z"There is another loneliness," wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson. "Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought." For author Kevin Lewis, that "other loneliness" is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
"There is another loneliness," wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson. "Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought." For author Kevin Lewis, that "other loneliness" is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being "lonesomeness." It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban Rust Belt.
In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores--in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art--the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, and Ernest Hemingway--creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness--Lewis finds the visual signature of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper.
Destroyer of Worldstag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12542009-11-13T15:51:43Z2009-11-13T15:52:55ZThe scariest aliens in the galaxy follow a simple rule: destroy all opposition. Destroyer of Worlds, Edward M. Lerner's latest collaboration with New York Times best-selling author Larry Niven, is now available (also in audio formats, for those who prefer...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Destroyer of Worlds, Edward M. Lerner's latest collaboration with New York Times best-selling author Larry Niven, is now available (also in audio formats, for those who prefer to listen to books).
The brilliant, xenophobic Pak are fleeing the chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core. Nothing and no one is going to impede their migration. Devastated worlds--any civilization that could possibly have interfered--lie shattered in their wake. And now the Fleet of Worlds is in their sights....
The trillion Puppeteers who inhabit the Fleet might have the resources to confront the threat--but Puppeteers are philosophical cowards. They don't confront anyone. They need allies to investigate the situation and then take action. Who better than the Puppeteers' newly independent one-time slave world, New Terra?
Sigmund Ausfaller, former Earth intelligence agent and current paranoid, finds himself leading the war against the Pak. With his own allies, the enigmatic, aquatic Gw'oth, Sigmund prepares to face everyone's mutual enemy. And neither humans nor Gw'oth have any intention of becoming cannon fodder....]]>
Arushatag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12532009-11-13T15:47:22Z2009-11-13T15:48:46ZEdith Rignaldi clearly understands that she and husband Joe remain together for the sake of their children. It is why they married in the first place. But she never foresaw the lifeless emotional landscape they both now occupy after 18...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Edith Rignaldi clearly understands that she and husband Joe remain together for the sake of their children. It is why they married in the first place. But she never foresaw the lifeless emotional landscape they both now occupy after 18 years together.
Teachers in a small, God-fearing Tennessee town, they cannot insulate themselves entirely from the cultural encroachment of the late '80s: the inexorable march of the feminist and gay-rights movements, the spread of the AIDS epidemic. When the faithful, steadfast Joe is finally overwhelmed by his desire for men, the lives of all four Rignaldis explode.
With the town turned against the disgraced family, the teenage children Dana and Jeremy repudiate their parents to seek their own answers. And as for Edith--a woman named Linda enters her life. A woman unlike any Edith has ever known.
The journey of Edith and Linda lands them in an African town named Arusha, on a godly mission to witness the Rwanda peace talks. It is a place where Edith will face the ultimate challenge to her emotionally and sexually shut-down life and to everything she has ever believed in.
Arusha is the compelling story of four achingly real people--and you will not soon forget any of them.
Some Other Timetag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12512009-11-13T15:43:25Z2009-11-13T15:44:39ZBill Evans's gentle ballad reminds Greta and Sunday of all they shared and all they couldn't share when they first met in 1964 and fell in love. Sunday Morgan was the first Negro in Greta's otherwise white high school in...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Bill Evans's gentle ballad reminds Greta and Sunday of all they shared and all they couldn't share when they first met in 1964 and fell in love. Sunday Morgan was the first Negro in Greta's otherwise white high school in Milwaukee. Both serious students from troubled families, they had everything in common but their color. Their relationship fell apart when Sunday returned from Mississippi after Freedom Summer.
Thirty-two years later, Sunday and Greta meet again by apparent coincidence after a life-threatening incident forces Sunday to confront the meaning of courage. Their second meeting marks the time in their lives that they begin to live their lives forward, rather than remain haunted by past fears.
From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paultag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12482009-11-13T15:40:29Z2009-11-13T15:41:22ZFrom the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul is the first and only book on the life and art of the grandfather of science-fiction illustration. The book is edited with an introduction by Stephen D. Korshak...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul is the first and only book on the life and art of the grandfather of science-fiction illustration. The book is edited with an introduction by Stephen D. Korshak and a preface by Arthur C. Clarke.]]>
Executive Guide to Managing Disputestag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12452009-11-13T15:34:58Z2009-11-13T15:35:16ZThe Executive Guide draws from behavioral research and economic theory to explain why the high cost of litigation is systemic, rather than the fault of supposedly greedy lawyers. Indeed, litigation is both a perfect storm of circumstances that leads to...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Executive Guide draws from behavioral research and economic theory to explain why the high cost of litigation is systemic, rather than the fault of supposedly greedy lawyers. Indeed, litigation is both a perfect storm of circumstances that leads to poor settlement decisions and an economically unsound process for deciding and allocating business liabilities.
Although litigation is sometimes unavoidable, the Executive Guide shows how alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and often inexpensive dispute management programs can contain costs, while renewing or cultivating positive business, workplace, and health-care relationships.]]>
Beautiful Piecetag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12422009-10-29T21:22:12Z2009-10-29T21:23:28ZDuring a deadly Chicago heat wave that's claiming hundreds of lives, Robert, who's stuck in his apartment alone, fears he's going to be the next victim. In the apartment above him lives a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran who talks obsessively about...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
During a deadly Chicago heat wave that's claiming hundreds of lives, Robert, who's stuck in his apartment alone, fears he's going to be the next victim. In the apartment above him lives a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran who talks obsessively about the corpses of his war experience while alternately listening to Die Meistersinger and Madama Butterfly.
One day, Robert ventures forth into the searing heat to gas up his car. Immediately he encounters enigmatic Lucy who is trying to escape her brutal fiancé, Matthew Gliss. On a whim, Lucy invites Robert to her apartment where she shows him her mysterious tattoo and tells him of her dangerous life with Matthew Gliss. She warns Robert that if Matthew ever catches them together he should run, not walk, because Matthew won't think twice of killing him.
So begins the risky, short-lived relationship that leads to a chilling climax. Each of Robert's increasingly hallucinatory recollections of what happened during the heat wave leads him to profoundly question his own culpability. This carefully crafted, gritty psychological tale offers a distinct urban flavor rich in metaphor and wordplay.
Marketing UNterstate Highways: Bringing Out-of-Town Dollars to Non-Destination Small Townstag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12402009-10-29T21:18:37Z2009-10-29T21:19:42ZSecurity hassles, delays, and passenger abuse have made commercial flying a nightmare, and interstate highway travel means dodging trucks, crawling through construction zones, and subsisting on interchange junk food. There's a better way: UNterstate highways, the best of our older...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Security hassles, delays, and passenger abuse have made commercial flying a nightmare, and interstate highway travel means dodging trucks, crawling through construction zones, and subsisting on interchange junk food. There's a better way: UNterstate highways, the best of our older roads. Intended primarily for small towns seeking economic development, this specialty manual enumerates ways these highways can be sold to long-distance travelers with marketing programs.
Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistantag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12372009-10-29T09:09:09Z2009-10-29T21:10:58ZAlyssa Ayres's study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base, great efforts would be...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Alyssa Ayres's study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base, great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of cultural policies for national identity formation. By comparing Pakistan's experience with those of India and Indonesia, the author analyzes how their national language policies led to very different outcomes. The lessons of these large multiethnic states offer insights for the understanding of culture, identity, and nationalism throughout the world. The book is aimed at scholars in the fields of history, political theory, and South Asian studies, as well as those interested in the history of culture and nationalism in one of the world's most complex and challenging countries.
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstettertag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12342009-10-23T20:02:19Z2009-10-23T20:03:09ZPioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-97) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two of America's most controversial, innovative and consequential strategists. Through the clarity of their thinking, the rigor of their research, and the persistence of their personalities,...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter demonstrates not only the historical importance but also the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters' work in national-security strategy and nuclear policy. It is the first book to make widely available more than 20 of Albert's and Roberta's most influential published--and unpublished--writings.
In addition, Nuclear Heuristics provides readers with an introduction to the Wohlstetters' work by coeditor Robert Zarate and short commentaries on Wohlstetter writings by Henry S. Rowen (2005 WMD commissioner and former assistant secretary of defense), Alain C. Enthoven (former assistant secretary of defense), Henry Sokolski (2008 WMD Proliferation and Terrorism commissioner and former Pentagon official), Richard Perle (former assistant secretary of defense and Defense Policy Board chairman emeritus), Stephen J. Lukasik (former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, now DARPA), and Andrew W. Marshall (director of the Office of Net Assessment).
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter is an indispensable resource for policy makers, military planners, and strategic analysts, as well as for students who aspire to these positions.]]>
The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitutiontag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12312009-10-23T19:55:40Z2009-10-23T19:56:52ZIn recent years the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, bans on school prayer and on guns, gay and lesbian equality, campaign financing, and the administration's use of military tribunals in the war...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
The Will of the People challenges that claim by showing that the court has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Judicial positions have been abolished, the justices' jurisdiction has been stripped, the court has been packed, and unpopular decisions have been defied. Contrary to popular wisdom, the justices aren't Olympian. Americans have always managed to make them aware of their political vulnerability. And for at least the past 60 years, the justices have made sure that their decisions do not stray too far from public opinion.
This sweeping historical account of the relationship between popular opinion and the Supreme Court--from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Rehnquist court in 2005--details how the American people came to accept their most controversial institution. Marshaling countless sources--including newspaper editorials, diaries, public debates, and private letters, as well as countless court cases--The Will of the People shows how the American public came to embrace judicial power, and in so doing, helped shape the meaning of the Constitution itself.]]>
Small Miraclestag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12242009-10-16T16:11:39Z2009-10-16T16:12:38ZWhen the gas pipeline exploded, it took a small miracle--or rather myriad miracles--to save Brent Cleary's life. Only now the small miracles have a mind of their own. And an agenda. Doing research for his latest novel, techno-thriller author Edward...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Small Miracles.]]>
Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better Worldtag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12152009-10-09T17:07:59Z2009-10-09T17:08:28ZMae Elise Cannon, author and ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, provides a comprehensive resource for Christians who are committed to social justice. She presents biblical rationale for justice and explains a variety of Christian approaches to doing justice....Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Mae Elise Cannon, author and ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, provides a comprehensive resource for Christians who are committed to social justice. She presents biblical rationale for justice and explains a variety of Christian approaches to doing justice. Tracing the history of Christians in social engagement, she lifts out role models and examples from the Great Awakenings to the civil-rights movement. A wide-ranging catalog of topics and issues give background info about justice issues at home and abroad, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, living-wage initiatives, debt relief, environmental stewardship, bioethics, and more.
This handbook includes a foreword by Dr. John Perkins and dozens of practical exercises for taking action, as well as profiles of key figures and movements such as William Wilberforce, the Salvation Army, and Bono and highlights how Christians and churches can make a difference. Also included are spiritual practices and resources to help the move from apathy to advocacy.
Merger Arbitrage: How To Profit From Event-Driven Arbitragetag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12142009-10-09T17:02:00Z2009-10-09T17:03:40ZMerger Arbitrage: How To Profit From Event-Driven Arbitrage explains everything you need to know about merger arbitrage. Few books have ever been published about merger arbitrage. Although other areas of finance are covered by more titles than anyone can read,...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Merger Arbitrage: How To Profit From Event-Driven Arbitrage explains everything you need to know about merger arbitrage.
Few books have ever been published about merger arbitrage. Although other areas of finance are covered by more titles than anyone can read, merger arbitrage has been the poor stepchild of the investment literature. This book fills the void as the first in a decade to cover this strategy. It takes a deep look into the strategy and its use in a portfolio with numerous illustrative examples of actual merger-arbitrage transactions.
Merger Arbitrage has been written for a wide range of investment and M&A professionals, including investors, who will learn the benefits of merger arbitrage and how to integrate it into their asset allocation strategy. Deal makers who look to structure their deals to get the support of the arbitrage community will get an understanding of what arbitrageurs look for in mergers, and arbitrageurs can find a road map for executing arbitrage strategies successfully.
Merger Arbitrage is the definitive book on one of the most effective forms of arbitrage. Organized into three comprehensive parts, this reliable resource introduces you to the basics of the arbitrage process in part one, discusses the possible pitfalls of the approach in part two, and deals with some practical questions of investing in merger arbitrage in part three.
Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this timely guide goes beyond the description of the arbitrage process to examine the benefits of adding merger arbitrage to your portfolio, while introducing you to the vehicles that can be used to incorporate this strategy into your everyday investment endeavors.]]>
Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terrortag:magazine.uchicago.edu,2009:/books//7.12202009-10-08T17:16:09Z2009-10-09T17:17:32ZRestoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror challenges the conventional arguments on both sides of the debate over war powers, especially in the context of the ongoing war on terror. Advocates of a strong Congress focus on...Erik Krafthttp://ihasahotdog.com
Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror challenges the conventional arguments on both sides of the debate over war powers, especially in the context of the ongoing war on terror. Advocates of a strong Congress focus on the need for legislative control over the power to deploy troops into combat; supporters of vigorous presidential power argue that the president's constitutional role as commander in chief of the armed forces means that the president can take any action deemed vital to the war effort. Using constitutional theory, case law, and political precedent, Restoring the Balance advances a novel understanding of the power to declare war, arguing that although the president has broad inherent constitutional powers to deploy U.S. armed forces into combat abroad without specific authorization from Congress, absent such authorization the president is more limited when trying to take actions that affect the legal status of persons within the United States itself.
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