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Ending Book Hunger Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture

Shaver Lea

ISBN: HB: 9780300226003, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Worldwide, billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. Lea Shaver argues that this is an educational crisis: the most reliable predictor of children's achievement is...

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Business & Economics

Economists

Cook Mariana, Solow Robert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300249972, Yale University Press, February 2020
200 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Providing illuminating profiles of ninety of the world's most prominent economists – from Nobel Prize winners and former Federal Reserve chairs to young scholars charting the future of the field – this stunning volume pairs full-page portraits by acc...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Volume 1

Kotchen Matthew J., Stock James H., Wolfram Catherine D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711171, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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America

Business & Economics

Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Artificial Intelligence An Agenda

Agrawal Ajay K., Gans Joshua S., Goldfarb Avi

ISBN: HB: 9780226613338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings, 21 tables

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. I...

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Public Health

Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine

Berndt Ernst R., Goldman Dana P., Rowe John

ISBN: HB: 9780226611068, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 line drawings, 67 tables

ersonalized and precision medicine (PPM) – the targeting of therapies according to an individual's genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics – is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The adva...

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Reference

Business & Economics

Economical Writing Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose (Third Edition)

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226448077, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 3 halftones

Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic...

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Business & Economics

Enablement Mastery Grow Your Business Faster by Aligning Your People, Processes, and Priorities

Cohen Elay

ISBN: HB: 9781626345744, Bookport, Greenleaf Book Group, January 2019
208 pp., 21.6x14.6 cm

Multiply Your Revenue. Enable Organizational Excellence. When enablement is embraced as a company-wide initiative and is sponsored by leadership all the way up to the CEO, organizational magic happens. Teams align. Business results accelerate. Cultur...

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Education, Skills, and Technical Change Implications for Future US GDP Growth

Hulten Charles R., Ramey Valerie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226567808, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 165 line drawings, 61 tables

Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can hum...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics of Poverty Traps

Barrett Christopher B., Carter Michael, Chavas Jean-Paul, Carter Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...

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