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BIOGRAPHY / Influential philosopher came to rethink it all (San Fransisco Chronicle)

books@sfchronicle.com (Michael Roth) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Richard Rorty The Making of an American Philosopher By Neil Gross University of Chicago Press; 367 pages; $32.50 Richard Rorty was the most widely read and influential American philosopher of the past 50 years. Rorty, who died last year, was at the center of...

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A Power Stronger Than Itself - The AACM and American Experimental Music (All About Jazz)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:05:19 GMT

A Power Stronger Than Itself - The AACM and American Experimental Music George E. Lewis Hardcover; 690 pages ISBN: 0226476952 University of Chicago Press 2007 There is arguably no-one better placed than trombonist and Association For The Advancement Of Creative Musicians' member George E. Lewis to write this book, and he's pulled the feat off with aplomb. He has used the book as...

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The Chicago Manual of Style (Performancing)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:54:25 GMT

If you are a professional, you should know that one of the most common style guides used in writing used by professional authors, journalists, and bloggers is The Chicago Manual of Style by the University of Chicago Press. It is the style I utilize when writing about, well, everything. If you want to learn more about The Chicago Manual of Style, there are three official...

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New book by NJIT architecture professor focuses on urbanism (Eurekalert)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

( New Jersey Institute of Technology ) The University of Chicago Press has published Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal by Gabrielle Esperdy, an associate professor in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT.

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A Power Stronger Than Itself (All About Jazz)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:05:10 GMT

A Power Stronger Than Itself George E. Lewis Hardcover; 690 pages ISBN: 0226476952 University of Chicago Press 2008 A long time coming, George Lewis' AACM tome is an in-depth socio-musicological study of a cooperative of musicians, the economic and political factors that gave rise to its existence, and the path it has charted since. Though a number of authors have written intelligently...

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Lost in the supermarket? (Eurekalert)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

( University of Chicago Press Journals ) In a probing study, Bart Minten of the International Food Policy Research Institute asks: "The Food Retail Revolution in Poor Countries: Is It Coming or Is It Over?"

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Everett Conner appointed Journals Manager of the University of Chicago Press (University of Chicago News Office)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT

After concluding a nationwide search, The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that Everett Conner has accepted the position of Journals Manager. He will assume the responsibilities for overseeing all functions of the Journals Division, effective imme ...

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June 2008 (All About Jazz)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:05:26 GMT

George Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith at Community Church of New York If anything came out of the panel discussion marking the release of George Lewis' book (A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, University of Chicago Press) at the Community Church of New York May 9th, it was that for more than 40 years the Association for the Advancement...

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Money Talks (Red Orbit )

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:00:12 GMT

By Sarewitz, Daniel MONEY TALKS Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism. Daniel S. Greenberg. University of Chicago Press, 2007. 288 pp. $25.00 (ISBN 9780226306254).

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The Hollow Hope, Take 2 (PrawfsBlawg)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:29:00 GMT

The University of Chicago Press has just published a second edition of Gerald Rosenberg’s The Hollow Hope. Rosenberg argues forcefully in this careful study of constitutional litigation that “U.S. courts can almost never be effective producers of significant social reform,” and that litigation is a drain on the scarce resources of reform advocates who could achieve more through...

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Schools: Studies in Education (Schools Matter)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Here is one of those rare journals with a heart that is neither dumbed down nor studiously arcane, which makes it a good read whether you are a classroom teacher, a teacher of classroom teachers, an administrator or researcher. Check out the last year's Fall issue free . University of Chicago Press and Francis W. Parker School, Chicago Announce Partnership to Publish Schools:...

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Soft vs. Hard Science, part II (Rationally Speaking)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:12:00 GMT

[This post is a second excerpt from the draft of a chapter of my forthcoming book, Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell the Difference Between Science and Bunk," to be published next year by the University of Chicago Press] As I wrote a few days ago , if we agree that the nature of science is along the lines I have described, next we need to ask why it is so. Platt, in his classic 1964...

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‘Digital book burning’ (TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:35:08 GMT

"It’s worth noting that even after more than five years of development and digitization, Google Book Search is still classified as a beta project. Making book content available on the web is, now more than ever, just a work in progress." - "DB" in the University of Chicago Press blog on the death of [...]

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The Last American Philosopher? (The Media Mob)

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:40:19 GMT

Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher, By Neil Gross; University of Chicago Press, 367 pages, $32.50. When my daughters are ready for college, I’ll tell them a story they'll scarcely believe: that when their father was first a graduate student, he attended a university where the most electric presence on campus was a philosopher. This will sound the same...

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No better than she should be (Bookish Monkey)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:28:28 GMT

…. just very good indeed. Isaac Tobin’s jacket designs, mainly for the University of Chicago Press. Pointer from The Book Design Review, a while back. Image: jacket for Chad Heap’s Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940. Interestingly, this seems not to be the final jacket - this is the book’s page at the University of [...]

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British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment: Between the Scientific and Traditional with Historian Jan Golinski (The World's Fair)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:12:55 GMT

Part 1 (below) | Part 2 (tomorrow) - - - The World's Fair is proud to discuss British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2007) with its author, Jan Golinski of the University of New Hampshire. Golinski is a Professor of History and Humanities, the Chair of the Department of History at UNH, and a leader in the field of the history of science....

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Obama's Big Read (Peter Stothard)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:03:24 GMT

Perhaps I haven't been noticing before. But I've just seen my first book in a catalogue to come with an endorsement from Barak Obama. University of Chicago Press is offering a reissue of Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History...

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Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners (Garden Voices)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:00:06 GMT

At the beginning of the southern hemisphere spring I was asked by a representative of The University of Chicago Press whether I would be interested in reading James B. Nardi's new book Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners (aff.). Being that I'm not a great reader of books - that's my wife's department for future reference - I hesitantly accepted and received...

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My Family and Other Saints BOOKS / Nonfiction (Red Orbit )

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:00:09 GMT

By William Grimes My Family and Other Saints By Kirin Narayan 236 pages. $22.50. University of Chicago Press. Reviewed by William Grimes * Families can be so embarrassing.

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Chicago Journals announces inaugural issue of the Journal of Human Capital (Science Daily)

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT

The University of Chicago Press Journals Division is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Human Capital, the first publication of its type in this important field.

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