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Medieval

Reading the World Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age

Franklin-Brown Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226260686, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 21 halftones, 5 colour illus.

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias". Variously referred to as a "speculum", "thesaurus", or "imago mundi" – the term encyclopedia was no...

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Business & Economics

China's Growing Role in World Trade

Feenstra Robert C., Wei Shang-Jin

ISBN: PB: 9780226239743, ISBN: HB: 9780226239712, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 104 line illus.

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in world trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source o...

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Anthropology

America

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones

"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...

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Business & Economics

NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2011 Volume 8

Frankel Jeffrey A., Pissarides Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226260358, ISBN: HB: 9780226260341, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
500 pp., 23x15 cm

The "NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics" brings together leading American and European economists to discuss a broad range of current issues in global macroeconomics. An international companion to the more American-focused "NBER Macroeconom...

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America

History

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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Biography & Memoires

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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Poetry

Raptor

Feld Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226240398, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
88 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

"Raptor", the second book by the author of the widely praised "Citizen", is a collection of formal poems and measured free verse unified by its investigation of our ancient poetic, mythic, and scientific fascination with birds of prey: hawks, eagles,...

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History

Steam-Powered Knowledge William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

Fyfe Aileen

ISBN: HB: 9780226276519, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel – Gutenb...

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Asia

America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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Business & Economics

Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

Freeman Mark, Pearson Robin, Taylor James

ISBN: HB: 9780226261874, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 18 line illus.

Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their orig...

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