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Business & Economics

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076744, ISBN: HB: 9780226076737, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tax Policy and the Economy" publishes current academic research findings on taxation and government spending that have both immediate bearing on policy debates and longer-term interest. The papers in this volume range from topics as broad as the rel...

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Music

Anthropology

Theory of African Music, Volume I

Kubik Gerhard

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones

Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...

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America

Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870

Morris Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539294, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...

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Music

Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents

Harrison Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226318097, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
352 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 107 musical examples, 1 halftone

The highly chromatic music of the late 1800s and early 1900s includes some of the best-known works by Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Cesar Franck, and Hugo Wolf. In this book, Daniel Harrison builds on nineteenth-century music theory to provide an o...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Choice Converts to Judaism Share Their Stories

Cumsky Weiss Arnine, Weiss Rubel Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781589662094, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Choice", Arnine Cumsky Weiss and Carol Weiss Rubel present the stories of forty-five converts to Judaism. These reflective narratives demonstrate that no two converts' experiences are alike, yet most share some common characteristics: a spiri...

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Culture Studies

Technics and Civilization

Mumford Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226550275, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 – before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon ar...

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Poetry

Complete Poems The 1554 Edition of the "Rime", a Bilingual Edition

Stampa Gaspara

ISBN: PB: 9780226770727, ISBN: HB: 9780226770710, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the earl...

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Nature

Imperial Nature Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science

Endersby Jim

ISBN: PB: 9780226207926, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first – and most successful – British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Heap Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226322445, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 maps, 19 halftones

During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze", recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop".Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner", and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, an...

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Business & Economics

Mathematics

Mathematics for Economists Made Simple

Vinogradov Viatcheslav V.

ISBN: PB: 9788024616575, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
364 pp., 23x15 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! As the field of economics becomes ever more specialized and complicated, so does the mathematics required of economists. With "Mathematics for Economists", expert mathematician Viatcheslav...

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