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Philosophy

Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory

Michlic Joanna Beata

ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....

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Law

Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails

Mahoney Paul G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables

The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...

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Education

America

Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South

Malczewski Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...

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Business & Economics

Negotiated Reform The Multilevel Governance of Financial Regulation

Mayntz Renate

ISBN: PB: 9783593505510, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
193 pp., 21.4x14 cm, 9 tables

Multilevel structures are becoming increasingly characteristic of the world in which we live. This book is a unique study of policy making in a multilevel political system extending from the national to the international level. Taking as its subject...

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Education

Connecting in College How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success

McCabe Janice M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409528, ISBN: HB: 9780226409498, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line drawings, 11 tables

We all know that good study habits, supportive parents, and engaged instructors are all keys to getting good grades in college. But as Janice M. McCabe shows in this illuminating study, there is one crucial factor determining a student's academic suc...

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Women Studies

America

Big Bosses A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America

McDowell Altemus Althea

ISBN: PB: 9780226423623, ISBN: HB: 9780226423593, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, "Big Bosses", she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) empl...

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Contemporary Art

Arts Club of Chicago at 100 Art and Culture, 1916-2016

Mileaf Janine, Rossen Susan F.

ISBN: HB: 9781891925467, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Founded in 1916 in the wake of the scandalous Armory Show, the Arts Club of Chicago aimed to present the city with new images, sounds, and ideas. Conceived as an exhibition and social space that would cultivate sophisticated conversations around a...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume I

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226370477, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2016
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 35 line drawings, 37 tables

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate. These two volumes update t...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume II

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226392493, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 18 line drawings, 28 tables

Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate. These two volumes update t...

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