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Cartography

Cartographic Japan A History in Maps

Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary

ISBN: HB: 9780226073057, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 1 table

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore o...

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Business & Economics

From Boom to Bubble How Finance Built the New Chicago

Weber Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226294483, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 5 line drawings, 10 tables

During the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and co...

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Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226262574, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2015
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 59 halftones, 229 line drawings, 136 tables

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability in...

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General

Shared Future Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy

Wood Richard L., Fulton Brad R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226306025, ISBN: HB: 9780226305974, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 25 line drawings

Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In "A...

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Music

Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport

Wynn Jonathan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...

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America

Legendary Detective The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

Walton John

ISBN: HB: 9780226308265, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"I'm in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don't want to take to the cops". That's Raymond Chandler's "Philip Marlowe", succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-n...

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Psychology

Rhetorical Memory A Study of Technical Communication and Information Management

Whittemore Stewart

ISBN: HB: 9780226263380, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 8 line drawings, 1 table

Institutions have regimes – policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices – day-to-day behaviors performed by individual wor...

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General

Corporate Social Responsibility? Human Rights in the New Global Economy

Walker-Said Charlotte, Kelly John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226244303, ISBN: HB: 9780226244273, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and set...

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Political Science

Ambiguities of Domination Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

Wedeen Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226333373, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones, 19 line drawings

Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for t...

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Philosophy

Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic New Essays on Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy"

Wishon Donovan, Linsky Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781575868462, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2015
281 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century".Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic" brings together ten new essays on Russell'...

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