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Linguistics

Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research

Rice Sally, Newman John

ISBN: PB: 9781575866123, ISBN: HB: 9781575866130, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, December 2010
369 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive – Functional Research" consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The paper...

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Business & Economics

Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386850, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 figures, 82 tables, 1 halftone

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan

Tsiang Katherine R.

ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.

Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...

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Psychology

Educating Intuition

Hogarth Robin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348629, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 7 tables, 3 halftones

In "Educating Intuition", Robin M. Hogarth offers the first comprehensive overview of what the science of psychology can tell us about intuition – where it comes from, how it works, whether we can trust it. He finds that intuition is a normal and imp...

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Business & Economics

Essence of Strategic Giving A Practical Guide for Donors and Fundraisers

Frumkin Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226266275, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
192 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 line illus.

In the face of global financial problems and stressed government budgets, the ability of private philanthropy to step in and help solve public problems – and support vital private institutions as well – has perhaps never been more important. But how...

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Anthropology

Erotic Triangles Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java

Spiller Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226769592, ISBN: HB: 9780226769585, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 musical examples, 14 line drawings, 13 tables, 8 halftones

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there – be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen – breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to th...

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Europe

Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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Biography & Memoires

Media Studies

Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago

Royko Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226730776, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
232 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution – in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time".Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...

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Architecture

Envisioning the Bloomingdale 5 Concepts

Lyster Clare

ISBN: PB: 9780981991825, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
123 pp., 23x23 cm, photos, illus., maps, 82 line illus.

In 2007 the Chicago Architectural Club directed an exhibition to explore strategies for the reappropriation of an underutilized freight train line on the north side of Chicago known as the Bloomingdale Line. The goal of the exhibition was to generate...

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Europe

Engineering the Revolution Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Alder Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780226012643, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 32 halftones

"Engineering the Revolution" documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "technological life". Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of...

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