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Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

Carroll Christopher D., Crossley Thomas F., Sabelhaus John

ISBN: HB: 9780226126654, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2015
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 97 line drawings, 117 tables

Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects t...

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Christianity

Emptiness Feeling Christian in America

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226237466, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For many Christians in America, becoming filled with Christ first requires being empty of themselves – a quality often overlooked in religious histories. In "Emptiness", John Corrigan highlights for the first time the various ways that American Chris...

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Jewish Studies

America

Metropolitan Jews Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit

Corwin Berman Lila

ISBN: HB: 9780226247830, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked tow...

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Film Studies

Off-Screen Cinema Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde

Cabanas Kaira Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226174594, ISBN: HB: 9780226174457, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones

One of the most important avant-garde movements in postwar Paris was Lettrism, which built an interest in the relations between writing and image in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge between...

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General

Political Science

How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States

Cafaro Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780226190655, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 21 line drawings, 7 tables

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line...

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Earth Sciences

Observer's Guide to Clouds and Weather A Northeastern Primer on Prediction

Carlson Toby, Knight Paul, Wyckoff Celia

ISBN: PB: 9781935704584, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 10 halftones, 10 line drawings

Today, most people look down when they want to check the weather, peeking at cell phones or popping open a browser, instead of looking up at one of the most accessible weather predictors of all the sky. Knowing what the atmosphere has in store withou...

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Architecture

Situaciones Urbanas

Cirugeda Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9788461183425, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, February 2015
120 pp., 27.9x15.2 cm, illustrated throughout

Santiago Cirugeda is an atypical architect placed on the verge of political activism and art. Far from a theorist, Cirugeda tests and implements his ideas directly on the ground. Over the past fifteen years, he has developed his work through meticulo...

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Music

Civic Jazz American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along

Clark Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226218212, ISBN: HB: 9780226218182, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that...

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Medieval

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Cohen Thomas V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269719, ISBN: HB: 9780226112589, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 map

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabro...

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Philosophy

Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Crangle Colleen E., Garcia de la Sienra Adolfo, Longino Helen E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867458, ISBN: HB: 9781575867441, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes has contributed significantly both to the sciences and to scientific philosophies. In this volume, an international group of Suppes's colleagues, collaborators, and students seeks to bui...

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