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Philosophy

Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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Biography & Memoires

Land Beyond A Memoir

Ives Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781602230774, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
186 pp., 23x15 cm, 52 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and work...

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General

Living the Drama Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys

Harding David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316659, ISBN: HB: 9780226316642, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 5 line illus.

For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on".Living the Drama" takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to...

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General

Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes Emotional Rhythms in Social Movement Groups

Effler Erika Summers

ISBN: PB: 9780226188669, ISBN: HB: 9780226188652, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 4 line illus.

Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? To explore the...

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Business & Economics

Law and Happiness

Posner Eric A., Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226676012, ISBN: HB: 9780226676005, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness – or "hedonics" – has developed into a formal field of inquiry,...

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Buddhism

Locations of Buddhism Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka

Blackburn Anne M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226055077, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones

Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, religious, and educational discourse; and Christianit...

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Business & Economics

Law & Capitalism What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World

Milhaupt Curtis J., Pistor Katharina

ISBN: PB: 9780226525280, ISBN: HB: 9780226525273, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 illus.

Recent high-profile corporate scandals – such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan – demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analyt...

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Jewish Studies

Learning and Community Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781584657705, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2009
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a path-breaking examination of how ten diverse schools have remade themselves to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century. Each written by an academic o...

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Photography

Look at me Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding

Fielding Jed

ISBN: HB: 9780226248523, University of Chicago Press, March 2009
144 pp., 33.6x27.3 cm, 68 duotones

Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look at me"...

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History of Art

Jewish Studies

Loving Yusuf Conceptual Travels from Present to Past

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035871, ISBN: HB: 9780226035864, University of Chicago Press, July 2008
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 halftones

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf", Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and tex...

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