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Cartoon Art

Backing into Forward A Memoir

Feiffer Jules

ISBN: PB: 9780226240350, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

Subversive, funny, and effortlessly droll, Jules Feiffer's cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and '70s – featured in the "Village Voice", but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer descri...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2011 Volume 12

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473406, ISBN: HB: 9780226473390, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"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 look at policies that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scien...

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Business & Economics

Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226473031, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
632 pp., 25x15 cm, 54 tables, 1 halftone, 49 line illus.

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to th...

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Jewish Studies

Jews Welcome Coffee Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

Liberles Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781611682465, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2012
190 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Tracing the introduction of coffee into Europe, Robert Liberles challenges long-held assumptions about early modern Jewish history and shows how the Jews harnessed an innovation that enriched their personal, religious, social, and economic lives. Foc...

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Anthropology

Restless Anthropologist New Fieldsites, New Visions

Gottlieb Alma

ISBN: PB: 9780226304908, ISBN: HB: 9780226304892, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The...

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Anthropology

General

Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...

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Law

Lawyers in Practice Ethical Decision Making in Context

Levin Leslie C., Mather Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226475165, ISBN: HB: 9780226475158, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused pri...

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Nature

History of Art

Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19

Cheon Sang Lee, Sohn Ho-min, Cook Haruko Minegishi, O'Grady William, Serafim Leon Angelo

ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...

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Islam

Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proof of Prophecy A Parallel Arabic-English Text

Khalidi Tarif

ISBN: HB: 9780842527873, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2012
400 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is the record of a debate that took place in the early tenth century between the famous Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi and the even more celebrated Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher who was known to medieval Europe as "Rha...

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