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Education

Lives in Science How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

Hermanowicz Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005645, ISBN: HB: 9780226327617, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 tables, 1 line illus.

hat can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different st...

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Reference

Life in Museums Managing Your Museum Career

Stevens Greg, Luke Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781933253701, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
210 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

From the experienced leader or the midcareer professional hoping for a promotion to a recent grad applying for a first internship, "A Life in Museums" provides every museum professional, both experts and novices, with information for reaching their c...

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Education

Leaving College Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition

Tinto Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226007571, ISBN: HB: 9780226804491, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 3 line illus.

In this 1994 classic work on student retention, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, Tinto demonstrates, is in a strong commi...

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Political Science

Learning While Governing Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch

Gailmard Sean, Patty John W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226924410, ISBN: HB: 9780226924403, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 4 line illus.

Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty explore an issue central to political s...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"

Major Rafael

ISBN: PB: 9780226924212, ISBN: HB: 9780226924205, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm

Leo Strauss's "What Is Political Philosophy?" addresses almost every major theme in his life's work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Yet precisely because the book is so foundational, if we want to understand Stra...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226922782, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoz...

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Anthropology

Lifeworlds Essays in Existential Anthropology

Jackson Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226923659, ISBN: HB: 9780226923642, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and exa...

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Political Science

Living Legislation Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Law Making

Jenkins Jeffery A., Patashnik Eric M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226396453, ISBN: HB: 9780226396446, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 16 line illus.

Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. It is thus no stretch to refer to legislation as a living, breathing force in American politics. And while debates over legislative measures begin before an item is...

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Literary Criticism

Popular Science

Loving Faster than Light Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

Price Katy

ISBN: HB: 9780226680736, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 9 line illus.

In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein's theory quickly became a rich c...

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Contemporary Art

Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt The Letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski, 1948-1971

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: PB: 9788393381869, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, October 2012
380 pp., 19x14 cm, 12 facsimiles and drawings, 81 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. C...

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