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Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the Twenty-First Century

Corrado Carol, Miranda Javier, Haskel Jonathan, Sichel Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226728179, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
776 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 figures, 102 tables

Measuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution. National accounts and many other economic statistics were designed before th...

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General

Nation of Bookworms Czechs as Readers

Travnicek Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024646619, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Nation of Bookworms takes an in-depth look at the reading culture of the Czech Republic – the country with the highest number of libraries per capita worldwide. Drawing on studies and oral...

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Philosophy

Navigating Normative Orders Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Kettemann Matthias C.

ISBN: PB: 9783593512983, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Normative orders emerge and pollinate everywhere. Whether it be with Kant or among conservatives, posts on the internet, in environmental discourses, or in our raising of our children: Norms populate and spread. This book explains how norms are creat...

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History

New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III

Davis Matthew Evan, Wilder Colin

ISBN: PB: 9781649590169, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, February 2021
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 16 halftones, 90 figures, 8 tables, 8 graphs

These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth o...

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Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic

Danielsen Finn

ISBN: PB: 9781602234284, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2021
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 tables

Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, n...

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America

Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History

Terry Clinto

ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates

At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...

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Poetry

Oh You Robot Saints!

Morgan Frank Rebecca

ISBN: PB: 9780887486685, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Part bestiary, part litany, part elegy, Rebecca Morgan Frank's Oh You Robot Saints! is populated by a strange menagerie of early automata and robots, including octobots and an eighteenth-century digesting duck, set alongside medieval mechanical virgi...

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Poetry

One Certain Thing

Cooley Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780887486661, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Cooley's eleventh book of poetry is an elegy, not only of lamentation but also of self-reckoning in the face of his wife's sudden death, after a marriage of half a century. The three-part conversation between the speaker, his wife, and God, pla...

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Business & Economics

Digital Supply Chains A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Digitalization

Mrozek Thomas, Seitz Daniel, Gundermann Kai-Uwe, Dicke Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9783593512051, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

Concrete and clear instructions for digital transformation in business! Supply chain management is, without question, deeply affected by the disruptive flux of forces of a modern organization, both positively and negatively. Between advanced analytic...

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Asia

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"

Riebold Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593509020, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
586 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the time of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a "weak state" dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a...

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