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Education, Skills, and Technical Change Implications for Future US GDP Growth
ISBN: HB: 9780226567808, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 165 line drawings, 61 tables
Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can hum...
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£98,00
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Syntax-Semantics Interface
ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...
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Christianity and Race in the American South A History
ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...
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Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India
ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...
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£36,00
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Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930
ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates
Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...
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£49,00
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Philology of the Flesh
ISBN: HB: 9780226572826, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh". Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to t...
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Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon
ISBN: HB: 9783035800968, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9780226562285, ISBN: HB: 9780226562148, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousand...
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Melodramatic Moment Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820
ISBN: HB: 9780226543659, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look – from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in "Pandora's Box" to the vicissitudes endlessly re...
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High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences
ISBN: HB: 9780226525525, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U. S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect e...
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