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Business & Economics

Great Inflation The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking

Bordo Michael D., Orphanides Athanasios

ISBN: HB: 9780226066950, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 tables, 10 halftones, 84 line illus.

Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation...

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Political Science

Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Sampson Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055688, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
552 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 1 table, 6 halftones, 46 line illus.

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories pla...

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Culture Studies

Gusto for Things A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Ago Renata

ISBN: HB: 9780226010571, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 56 tables, 38 halftones

We live in a material world – our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a...

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Literary Criticism

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedies 1 Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226035284, ISBN: HB: 9780226035147, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
328 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Greek Tragedies, Volume I" contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon",‌ translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Antigone",‌ translat...

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Literary Criticism

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedies 2 Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226035598, ISBN: HB: 9780226035451, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
328 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Greek Tragedies, Volume II" contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra", translated by David Grene; Euripides's "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; Euripides's "Electra"...

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Literary Criticism

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedies 3 Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226035932, ISBN: HB: 9780226035765, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Greek Tragedies, Volume III" contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus", translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae",...

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Genetics

Technology & Engineering

Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

Smith Hughes Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226045511, ISBN: HB: 9780226359182, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit,...

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Music

Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru

Tucker Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226923963, ISBN: HB: 9780226923956, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 18 line illus.

Exploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, "Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars" is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popula...

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Genetics

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Barnes Barry, Dupre John

ISBN: PB: 9780226054568, ISBN: HB: 9780226172958, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about th...

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Mammals

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska Fourth Edition

Wynne Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781566121675, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x15 cm

The authoritative book on Alaska marine life",Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska" is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears. Now in its fourth edition, this aw...

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