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Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2013 Volume 14

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226158426, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2014
278 pp., 23x15 cm

Appreciation of the importance of innovation to the economy has increased over the past decade. There is an active debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding resea...

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Contemporary Art

In the Aftermath of Trauma Contemporary Video Installations

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9780936316383, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2014
112 pp., 23.9x16.5 cm, 58 colour plates

The history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic cleansing, revolutions, civil w...

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Education

Improvement by Design The Promise of Better Schools

Cohen David K., Peurach Donald J., Glazer Joshua L., Gates Karen E., Goldin Simona

ISBN: PB: 9780226089386, ISBN: HB: 9780226089249, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school system...

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Education

In Defense of Disciplines Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University

Jacobs Jerry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226069326, ISBN: HB: 9780226069296, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 17 tables

Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In "Defense of Disciplines" presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument sur...

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Medieval

Europe

Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226104324, ISBN: HB: 9780226781679, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neglecting the role of the inquisitors themselves. In this volume, Karen Sullivan sheds much-needed light...

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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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Photography

I Am Alaskan

Adams Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781602232136, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2013
216 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates

What does an Alaskan look like? When asked to visualize someone from Alaska, the image most people conjure up is one of a face lost in a parka, surrounded by snow. Missing from this image is the vibrant diversity of those who call themselves Alaskans...

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Philosophy

Ideas Have Consequences Expanded Edition

Weaver Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226090061, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, "Ideas Have Consequences" uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read a...

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Europe

Military

In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...

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