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Business & Economics

Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress

Jorgenson Dale W., Landefeld J. Steven, Schreyer Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226121338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2014
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 80 line drawings, 121 tables

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability. The recent recession renewed commitments to closing long-standing gaps in economic measure...

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General

Renegade Dreams Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226032719, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city" and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our foc...

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Literary Criticism

Performing Arts

Iphigenia among the Taurians

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203621, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
72 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. "The New York Times Book Review" calls her work "personal, necessary, and impor...

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Music

Prague Soundscapes

Jurkova Zuzana

ISBN: PB: 9788024625157, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
340 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 64 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Dvorak's opera Rusalka at the National Theatre. A punk concert in an underground club. The hypnotic chanting of Hare Krishnas joyfully dancing through the streets. These are the sounds of...

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General

Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle

Campbell Andrea Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....

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Children's Books

Pup and Pokey

Kantner Seth

ISBN: PB: 9781602232419, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
48 pp., 21.6x17.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on Alaska's tundra. The two grow up as neighbors, but only through helping each other escape from a trapper do they learn what it means truly to b...

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Philosophy

Nation as Network Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

Bernal Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226144818, ISBN: HB: 9780226144788, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borde...

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Psychology

Hoarders Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

Herring Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226171715, ISBN: HB: 9780226171685, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing

The verb "declutter" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV pro...

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Nature

Ecology

Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past

Goodman Steven M., Jungers William L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...

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America

Global Republic America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power

Ninkovich Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226164731, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a lo...

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