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Business & Economics

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076744, ISBN: HB: 9780226076737, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tax Policy and the Economy" publishes current academic research findings on taxation and government spending that have both immediate bearing on policy debates and longer-term interest. The papers in this volume range from topics as broad as the rel...

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Music

Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

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Culture Studies

Technics and Civilization

Mumford Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226550275, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 – before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon ar...

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Business & Economics

Targeting Investments in Children Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

Levine Phillip B., Zimmerman David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475813, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 tables, 19 line illus.

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects...

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Poetry

Tourist in Hell

Wilner Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226900322, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
96 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and pr...

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Education

Thinking Student's Guide to College 75 Tips for Getting a Better Education

Roberts Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226721156, ISBN: HB: 9780226721149, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Each fall, thousands of eager freshmen descend on college and university campuses expecting the best education imaginable: inspiring classes taught by top-ranked professors, academic advisors who will guide them to a prestigious job or graduate schoo...

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Astronomy

Three Steps to the Universe From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

Garfinkle David, Garfinkle Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226283487, ISBN: HB: 9780226283463, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle thes...

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History of Art

Tanagras. Figurines for Life and Eternity The Musee du Louvre's Collection of Greek Figurines

Jeammet Violaine

ISBN: PB: 9788484711711, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
300 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates, 19 drawings, 127 halftones

Named for the city in Greece where they were first discovered in the 1870s, Tanagra statuettes are an elegant example of ancient Greek terra-cotta sculpture from the fourth and third centuries BC. Mainly found in tombs in this city, the small statuet...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Philosophy

Toward a Rhetoric of Insult

Conley Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226114781, ISBN: HB: 9780226114774, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
176 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 10 halftones

From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. And yet, this most human of human behaviors has rarely been the subject of organized and comprehensive...

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