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Business & Economics

Procurement 4.0 A Survival Guide in a Digital, Disruptive World

Batran Alexander, Erben Agnes, Schulz Ralf, Sperl Franziska

ISBN: HB: 9783593506692, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Although digitalization or smart manufacturing might be considered a driving factor behind Procurement 4. 0 – the latest conceptualization of how modern companies procure goods and services – it is far too shortsighted to view Procurement 4. 0 as sim...

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Business & Economics

Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

Ramanna Karthik

ISBN: PB: 9780226528090, ISBN: HB: 9780226210742, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 10 tables

Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the det...

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Christianity

Poetic Relations Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation

Furey Constance M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226434155, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a...

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Birds

Peregrine Returns The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery

Hennen Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226465425, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 159 colour plates

Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are now well known for adapting from life on rocky cliffs to a...

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Christianity

Possessions and Family in the Writings of Luke Questioning the Unity of Luke's Ethics

Nordgaard Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9788763544948, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
169 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Recent decades have seen substantial questioning of the unity of the books of Luke and Acts. With this volume, Stefan Nordgaard takes a close look at that question, with a specific eye toward Luke's attitude toward possessions and family. He clearly...

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Landscape Architecture

Prague Gardens and Parks

Pacakova-Hostalkova Bozena

ISBN: PB: 9788024634227, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
260 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 145 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The design of Prague's gardens and parks – especially the green spaces of its palaces, castles, and monastery complexes, both private and public – is inseparable from the millennium-long e...

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Education

Paying the Price College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Goldrick-Rab Sara

ISBN: PB: 9780226527147, ISBN: HB: 9780226404349, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 21 tables

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with "Paying the Price", she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite...

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America

Power without Victory Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

Throntveit Trygve

ISBN: PB: 9780226459905, ISBN: HB: 9780226459875, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a na??ve idealist or cynical imperialist abroad. Historians' harsh judgments of Wilson are understandable. He won two electio...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard

Bouzek Jan, Militky Jiri, Taneva Valentina, Domaradzka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024633015, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
246 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 57 colour plates, 12 maps, 46 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long co...

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Nature

Profit of the Earth The Global Seeds of American Agriculture

Fullilove Courtney

ISBN: HB: 9780226454863, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtne...

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