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Public Health

Research Findings in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903064, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 106 line illus.

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...

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Business & Economics

Law & Capitalism What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World

Milhaupt Curtis J., Pistor Katharina

ISBN: PB: 9780226525280, ISBN: HB: 9780226525273, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 illus.

Recent high-profile corporate scandals – such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan – demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analyt...

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Culture Studies

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe Between Market and Laboratory

Klein Ursula, Spary E. C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439686, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables, 21 halftones

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe", the labor...

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Media Studies

Reference

Critical Terms for Media Studies

Mitchell W. J. T., Hansen Mark B. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532554, ISBN: HB: 9780226532547, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 6 line illus.

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive".Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Pepperell Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226655390, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 370 colour illus.

Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the enti...

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Literary Criticism

Oedipus the King

Sophocles

ISBN: PB: 9780226768687, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
88 pp., 20x13 cm

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Compl...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason Text and Documents

Hayek F. A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226321097, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
344 pp., 23x15 cm

"Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason" is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positiv...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2009 Volume 10

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473345, ISBN: HB: 9780226473338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2010
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors cover all types of policy that affect the ability of an economy to ache...

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Film Studies

Bowery to Broadway The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema

Shannon Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781589662001, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, March 2010
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Before Johnny Depp and "Public Enemies", there was "The Public Enemy". James Cagney's 1931 portrayal of the Irish American gangster, Tommy Powers, set the standard for the Hollywood gangster and helped to launch a golden age of Irish American cinema....

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2008 Volume 5

Frankel Jeffrey A., Pissarides Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226107325, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2010
500 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 line illus.

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for thirty years. The papers in the 2007 volume discuss interest-setting and central bank transparency; expectations, monetary policy, and traded good prices; public...

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