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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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Earth Sciences

Earth's Deep History How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421971, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones, 5 line drawings

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how wa...

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Anthropology

Music

Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills

Narayan Kirin

ISBN: PB: 9780226407562, ISBN: HB: 9780226407425, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a fo...

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Evolution

Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective

Eldredge Niles, Pievani Telmo, Serrelli Emanuele, Temkin Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables

The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...

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Mammals

Elephant Don The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse

O'Connell Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226380056, ISBN: HB: 9780226106113, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friends – including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking...

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Contemporary Art

Essential Paul Laffoley Works from the Boston Visionary Cell

Laffoley Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226315416, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 28x28 cm, 118 colour plates, 15 halftones

Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, "The Essential Paul Laffoley" documents the evolution of his unique intellectual,...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century

Abrevaya Stein Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226368221, ISBN: HB: 9780226368191, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history...

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Biography & Memoires

Polonica

Experimental Self Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science

Golinski Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780226351360, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth...

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Europe

England's Great Transformation Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

Steinberg Marc W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226329956, ISBN: HB: 9780226329819, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

With "England's Great Transformation", Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi's landmark "The Great Transformation". The conventional wisdom...

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