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Chicago Guide to Communicating Science Second Edition

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144504, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings

For more than a decade, "The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science" has been the go-to reference for anyone who needs to write or speak about their research. Whether a student writing a thesis, a faculty member composing a grant proposal, or a publi...

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Political Science

Law

Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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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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Literary Criticism

Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Business & Economics

Strategy Navigating the Complexity of the New World

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593398105, ISBN: HB: 9783593506111, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
400 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 117 colour illus.

In "Strategy", Fredmund Malik once again offers executives in the business world the tools they need to lead their companies. Exploring the technological innovations that have revolutionized business, Malik outlines the problems confronting companies...

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Philosophy

Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"

Phillips D. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226408378, ISBN: HB: 9780226408231, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey's magnum opus, "Democracy and Education". Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and – dare we say it – a little dry. In this charming a...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

Bruno Giuliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226434636, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 24.7x22.8 cm, 80 colour plates, 6 halftones

What is the place of materiality – the expression or condition of physical substance – in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In "Surface", cultural critic and theori...

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Reference

Art of Creative Research A Field Guide for Writers

Gerard Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226179803, ISBN: HB: 9780226179773, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world – when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a...

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Political Science

Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

Hauf Felix

ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables

"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...

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Christianity

On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – March

Mathews Edward G.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529983, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
218 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Yaysmawurk' is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief saints' lives arranged according to the day on which they were celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk' was translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection,...

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