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Technical Image A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery

Bredekamp Horst, Dunkel Vera, Schneider Birgit

ISBN: HB: 9780226258843, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 93 colour plates, 92 halftones

In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody – both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue betwe...

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Education

Teaching Artist Handbook Volume 1: Tools, Techniques, and Ideas to Help Any Artist Teach

Jaffe Nick, Barniskis Becca, Hackett Cox Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226256887, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm

The creation of art is deeply personal yet remains strongly rooted within the collaborative meeting of teacher and student. Over centuries, techniques and encouragement have been passed along from experienced mentors to budding novices. Those who can...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric in European and World Culture

Kraus Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024622156, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Rhetoric in European and World Culture" traces the position of rhetoric in cultural and educational systems from ancient times to the present. Here, Jiri Kraus examines rhetoric's decline...

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World

Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures

Broeck Sabine, Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...

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History

Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Eddy Matthew D., Mauskopf Seymour H., Newman William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...

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Linguistics

What Is Said and What Is Not The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Penco Carlo, Domaneschi Filippo

ISBN: HB: 9781575866680, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said", the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between seman...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 28

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226208299, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in Volume 28 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs. The first paper explores whether closely held firms are used a...

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Political Science

How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education

Brown Jeffrey R., Hoxby Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...

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Film Studies

Closed Circuits Screening Narrative Surveillance

Garrett Stewart

ISBN: PB: 9780226201498, ISBN: HB: 9780226201214, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power – and potential for abuse. In "Closed Circuits", Garrett Stewart...

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Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 21

Somin Ilya, Wright Joshua, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226052465, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit o...

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