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Poetry

Slow Trains Overhead Chicago Poems and Stories

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226478845, ISBN: HB: 9780226290584, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
120 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience – a chance encounter with a ve...

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Fiction

Sour Lemon Score A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226771106, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name's Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who beg...

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Business & Economics

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Relationship to Youth Employment

Gruber Jonathan, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226309484, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 63 tables, 161 line illus.

Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in t...

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Mathematics

Computer Science & Internet

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: HB: 9781575865836, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
453 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TEX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become class...

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Current Affairs

Architecture

Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

Vanderbilt Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...

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Business & Economics

Social Security A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives

Gokhale Jagadeesh

ISBN: HB: 9780226300337, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
374 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 34 line illus.

Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using long outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason Text and Documents

Hayek F. A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226321097, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
344 pp., 23x15 cm

"Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason" is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positiv...

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Anthropology

Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic

Laugrand Frederic, Oosten Jarich

ISBN: PB: 9781602230118, ISBN: HB: 9781602230262, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
160 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.

This study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their ability to communicate with supernatural beings, such as Sedna t...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226121857, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
232 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 120 line illus.

Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. T...

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Reference

Sinclair Lewis A Descriptive Bibliography, Second Edition

Pastore Stephen R.

ISBN: HB: 9781589661561, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, August 2009
350 pp., 23x15 cm, 110 halftones

Sinclair Lewis, celebrated author of "Babbitt and Main Street", wrote more than twenty novels in the course of his prolific career, most of which went through several editions over the years. This is the definitive descriptive bibliography of the Lew...

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