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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2009 Volume 10

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473345, ISBN: HB: 9780226473338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2010
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

"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 cover all types of policy that affect the ability of an economy to ache...

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Anthropology

Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic

Laugrand Frederic, Oosten Jarich

ISBN: PB: 9781602230118, ISBN: HB: 9781602230262, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
160 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.

This study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their ability to communicate with supernatural beings, such as Sedna t...

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Anthropology

Ultimate Americans Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909

Lowenstein Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602230385, ISBN: HB: 9781602230279, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
368 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, "Ultimate Americans" examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Al...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Best of Times, Worst of Times Memoirs of a Political Education

Laqueur Walter

ISBN: HB: 9781584657989, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2009
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses o...

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Literary Criticism

Children's Literature A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226473017, ISBN: HB: 9780226473000, University of Chicago Press, September 2009
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from "Aesop's fables to Mother Goose", from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "Peter Pan"...

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Cultural Studies

Citrus A History

Laszlo Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780226470283, ISBN: HB: 9780226470269, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
262 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 colour illus.

Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes – and sometimes even more exotic fare like the Japanese yuzu or the baboon lemon...

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Education

Succeeding as an International Student in the United States and Canada

Lipson Charles, Goodman Allan E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226484792, ISBN: HB: 9780226484785, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
380 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Each year, 700,000 students from around the world come to the United States and Canada to study. For many, the experience is as challenging as it is exciting. Far from home, they must adapt to a new culture, new university system, and in many cases,...

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Literary Criticism

Ibuse Masuji A Century Remembered

Liman Antonin

ISBN: HB: 9788024614526, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2008
430 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Japanese novelist Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993) is best known for his 1966 novel "Kuroi Ame" (published in English as "Black Rain"), which detailed the tragic aftermath of the nuclear bombing o...

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Cultural Studies

Pasta and Pizza

La Cecla Franco

ISBN: PB: 9780979405716, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2007
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are inextricably connected to Italian identity. These familiar foods not only represent Italy's culinary traditions, according to anthropologist Franco La Cecla,...

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History of Art

Pollock Matters

Landau Ellen G., Cernuschi Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781892850133, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 2007
178 pp., 28x28 cm, 282 colour plates

Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint from its can directly onto the canvas".Pollock Matters...

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