University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
The Human Career
Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Since its publication in 1989, The Human Career has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over the past ten years have significantly...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent. U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy brings clarity to issues of supply and demand in this important market. Following a general overview of engineering-labor...
After the Map
Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where...
Greater Ethiopia
The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite...
Victorian People
A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin...
American Academic Cultures
A History of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it’s seen as something more than a linear progress...
Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture
A Philosophical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a moral wrong, he nevertheless argues that, in exceptional...
Golf Science
Optimum Performance from Tee to Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Golf is perhaps the most complicated simple game ever invented. Golfing greats like Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods make the sport look easy, but anyone who has ever picked up a club knows how truly frustrating golf can be. The success of each shot depends on a diverse range of factors, from the club...
A Socialist Peace?
Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?,...
The Specter of Global China
Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
China has recently emerged as one of Africa’s top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent’s booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. For many,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The papers in Volume 28 of Tax Policy and the Economy illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs. The first paper explores whether closely held firms are used as tax shelters. The second examines the taxation of...
Selling Power
Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison’s light bulb was the first to work within a system...
Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2016
Volume 17
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction between public policy and innovation. In the...
Last Resort
The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair—and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren’t we encouraging them to continue to act...