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Education

Governing Educational Desire Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China

Kipnis Andrew B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226437552, ISBN: HB: 9780226437538, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
224 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 16 halftones

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined – until now".Governing Educational Desire" explores the cultural, political, and econo...

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Mathematics

Algorithmes

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866208, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2011
524 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is a French translation of seventeen papers by Donald Knuth on algorithms both in the field of analysis of algorithms and in the design of new algorithms. They cover fundamental concepts and techniques and numerous discrete problems such as...

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Education

Far Away from the Tigers A Year in the Classroom with Internationally Adopted Children

Katch Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780226425788, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
176 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

Over the past three decades, more than a quarter of a million children have become citizens of the United States through international adoption. Kindergarten teacher Jane Katch recently found herself with three such children in her class: Katya, born...

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General

Europe

Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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Linguistics

Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces

Kempson Ruth, Gregoromichelaki Eleni, Howes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9781575866147, ISBN: HB: 9781575866154, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2011
402 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm

Dynamic Syntax is a formal model of utterance description that attempts to articulate and substantiate the claim that human linguistic knowledge is essentially the ability to process language in context. The model provides an explicit demonstration o...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Conversations with John L'Heureux

Karagueuzian Dikran

ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...

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Linguistics

World Color Survey

Kay Paul, Berlin Brent, Maffi Luisa, Merrifield William R., Cook Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781575864167, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
600 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The 1969 publication of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's "Basic Color Terms" proved explosive and controversial. Contrary to the then-popular doctrine of random language variation, Berlin and Kay's multilingual study of color nomenclature indicated a cros...

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Business & Economics

Law

Regulation versus Litigation Perspectives from Economics and Law

Kessler Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226432205, ISBN: HB: 9780226432182, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
344 pp., 23.4x15.7 cm, 54 tables, 19 line illus.

The efficacy of various political institutions is the subject of intense debate between proponents of broad legislative standards enforced through litigation and those who prefer regulation by administrative agencies. This book explores the trade-off...

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Philosophy

Thomism and Tolerance

Knasas John F. X.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662155, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, December 2010
130 pp., 21.5x13 cm

In this incisive study, John F. X. Knasas grounds the ideal of tolerance in Aquinas's natural law ethics and connects the virtue of civic tolerance to the concept of being. If God is the source of being, argues Knasas, then we are the articulation of...

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Linguistics

Selected Papers on Fun and Games

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575865843, ISBN: HB: 9781575865850, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Donald E. Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TeX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become cl...

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