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Business & Economics

Strategy for Managing Complex Systems A Contribution to Management Cybernetics for Evolutionary Systems

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593505398, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones, 22 tables

"Strategy for Managing Complex Systems" demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in the cybernetics of truly complex – organismic, self-organizing, and evolving – systems. As...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2015

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226392219, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...

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Music

Women Studies

Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States

Ross Sarah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...

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Philosophy

Significant Life Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

May Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226421049, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in "A Significant Life", philosopher Todd May of...

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Culture Studies

Science of Myths and Vice Versa

Schrempp Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780996635509, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
62 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition – with science providing empirically supported truths that replace the false ideas found in traditional mythologies. But the rhetoric of contemporary popular science and related genres tells a...

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Hinduism

Spiritual Despots Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule

Scott J. Barton

ISBN: HB: 9780226368672, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Revolution and the widespread effects of "priestcraft" rhetoric that grew out of it, but J. Barton Scott, in "Spiritual Despots", reveals an unexamined piece of that story: how Protestant...

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Jewish Studies

Self as Nation Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography

Hess Tamar S.

ISBN: PB: 9781611688801, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Theorists of autobiography tend to emphasize the centrality of the individual against the community. By contrast, in her reading of Hebrew autobiography, Tamar Hess identifies the textual presence and function of the collective and its interplay with...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Stormwater A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226365008, ISBN: HB: 9780226364957, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 277 halftones

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm – from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston – come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In "Stormwater", William G. Wilson brings us t...

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General

Scenescapes How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Silver Daniel Aaron, Clark Terry Nichols

ISBN: PB: 9780226356990, ISBN: HB: 9780226356853, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 39 line drawings, 30 tables

Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his bar-stool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Style and Seduction Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna

Shapira Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611689211, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identificati...

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