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Political Science

Paradoxes of Integration Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America

Oliver J. Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226626635, ISBN: HB: 9780226626628, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 43 line illus.

The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society".The Paradoxes of Integration" helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships amo...

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Evolution

Natural History of Time

Richet Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780226712888, ISBN: HB: 9780226712871, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
481 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 line drawings, 3 tables, 12 halftones

For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds with clues. In "A Natural History of Time", geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story...

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Business & Economics

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Relationship to Youth Employment

Gruber Jonathan, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226309484, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 63 tables, 161 line illus.

Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in t...

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Philosophy

Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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Poetry

Romey's Order

Riley Atsuro

ISBN: PB: 9780226719443, ISBN: HB: 9780226719429, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
64 pp., 23x15 cm

"Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records – and...

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Business & Economics

Reforming the Welfare State Recovery and Beyond in Sweden

Freeman Richard B., Swedenborg Birgitta, Topel Robert H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261928, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 54 tables, 75 line illus.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostere...

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Mathematics

Computer Science & Internet

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: HB: 9781575865836, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
453 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TEX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become class...

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Business & Economics

Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk

Lucas Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226496580, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 tables, 38 line illus.

The U. S. government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remain poorly understood and only partially measured. G...

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Contemporary Art

Clement Greenberg Between the Lines Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg

Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226175164, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism – of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse – has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic o...

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Biography & Memoires

Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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