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Mathematics

Computer Science & Internet

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: HB: 9781575865836, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
453 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald 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 class...

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Business & Economics

Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk

Lucas Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780226496580, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 tables, 38 line illus.

The U. S. government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remain poorly understood and only partially measured. G...

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Contemporary Art

Clement Greenberg Between the Lines Including a Debate with Clement Greenberg

Duve Thierry

ISBN: PB: 9780226175164, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm

Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism – of Pollock, Miro, and Matisse – has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic o...

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Biography & Memoires

Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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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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Philosophy

Political Science

Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy

Mahdi Muhsin S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501871, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
288 pp., 23x15 cm

In this work, Muhsin Mahdi – widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought – distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy....

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General

Living the Drama Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys

Harding David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316659, ISBN: HB: 9780226316642, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 5 line illus.

For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on".Living the Drama" takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to...

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Fiction

Pictures from an Institution A Comedy

Jarrell Randall

ISBN: PB: 9780226393759, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
296 pp., 20x13 cm

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwh...

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Linguistics

Meaning, Form, and Body

Turner Mark, Parrill Fey, Tobin Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781575865942, ISBN: HB: 9781575865959, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

"Meaning, Form, and Body" brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerou...

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Linguistics

Education

Craft of Scientific Communication

Harmon Joseph E., Gross Alan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.

The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...

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