This Week’s New Books: Regulatory Breakdown and Healing Secular Life

Regulatory Breakdown Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation
Edited by Cary Coglianese

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"Everybody talks about regulatory failure, but no one does much about it. This book investigates claims of regulatory breakdown in the United States and provides helpful clues as to what might be done."–Jerry Mashaw, Yale Law School

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus.
Hardcover  2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4460-1 | $49.95 | £32.50
Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0749-1 | $49.95 | £32.50

Healing Secular LifeHealing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
Christopher Dole

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"A fine ethnography that examines the cultural politics of healing practices in contemporary Turkey. It offers a fresh and original account of the cultural discourses and modes of aesthetic representation and perception that congeal around questions of religious healing."–Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College

320 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus.
Hardcover 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4416-8 | $69.95 | £45.50
Ebook 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4416-8 | $69.95 | £45.50
A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series


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