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Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation

Garner Bryan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226188850, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
552 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 115 line drawings

Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of "The Chicago Manual of Style's" popular "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity....

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Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers Second Edition

Miller Jane E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226185637, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones, 47 line drawings, 23 tables

Earning praise from scientists, journalists, faculty, and students, "The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers" has helped thousands of writers communicate data clearly and effectively. Its publication offered a much-needed bridge between good quant...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

Stimpson Catharine R., Herdt Gilbert

ISBN: PB: 9780226774817, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
536 pp., 23x15 cm

"Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives – in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups... Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from histori...

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Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis Second Edition

Miller Jane E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527871, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
560 pp., 23x15 cm, 87 figures, 52 tables, 2 halftones

Many different people, from social scientists to government agencies to business professionals, depend on the results of multivariate models to inform their decisions. Researchers use these advanced statistical techniques to analyze relationships amo...

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Linguistics

Education

Craft of Scientific Communication

Harmon Joseph E., Gross Alan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.

The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...

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Media Studies

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Critical Terms for Media Studies

Mitchell W. J. T., Hansen Mark B. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532554, ISBN: HB: 9780226532547, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 6 line illus.

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive".Critical Terms for Media Studies" defines, and...

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Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs

Bloomfield Victor A., El-Fakahany Esam E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226060644, ISBN: HB: 9780226060637, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 1 table

Embarking upon research as a graduate student or postdoc can be exciting and enriching – the start of a rewarding career. But the world of scientific research is also a competitive one, with grants and good jobs increasingly hard to find".The Chicago...

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Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology

Chandler C. Ray, Wolfe Lorne M., Promislow Daniel E. L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101309, ISBN: HB: 9780226101293, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones, 54 line drawings, 4 tables

"The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology" is an indispensable guide for graduate students and post-docs as they enter that domain red in tooth and claw: the job market. An academic career in the biological sciences typically demands...

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Buddhism

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Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493152, ISBN: HB: 9780226493145, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the past century, Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical, devoted to nonviolence, and...

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History of Art

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Critical Terms for Art History Second Edition

Nelson Robert S., Shiff Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226571683, University of Chicago Press, April 2003
540 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain". But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments i...

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