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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2012 Volume 13

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226053585, ISBN: HB: 9780226053448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm

There is considerable debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This debate has intensified as...

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Gender Studies

Intimate Matters A History of Sexuality in America (Third Edition)

D'Emilio John, Freedman Estelle B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923802, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
536 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 55 halftones, 11 line illus.

As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, "Intimate Matters" offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this gr...

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Poetry

Ice Floe III

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231917, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2012
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The third volume of the revived "Ice Floe" series, "Ice Floe III" features new and exciting works of poetry by authors from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. All work is presented in both its original la...

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Christianity

Buddhism

Invention of Religion in Japan

Josephson Jason Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780226412344, ISBN: HB: 9780226412337, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
408 pp., 23x15 cm

Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion". There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese gove...

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History of Art

Philosophy

Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

Hickey Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226333199, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
152 pp., 17.8x15 cm, 8 halftones

"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty – and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismisse...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

In Time Poets, Poems, and the Rest

Williams C. K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226899510, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his vers...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

I Feel So Good The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy

Riesman Bob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007090, ISBN: HB: 9780226717456, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
366 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues wit...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries

Arrunada Benito

ISBN: HB: 9780226028323, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 line illus.

Governments and development agencies spend considerable resources building property and company registries to protect property rights. When these efforts succeed, owners feel secure enough to invest in their property and banks are able use it as coll...

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Linguistics

Identity, Language, and Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry

Newen Albert, van Riel Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9781575866420, ISBN: HB: 9781575866437, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal identity, and consciousness. Looking particularly at th...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903132, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 figures, 86 tables

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in...

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