University of Chicago Press Books: New booksThe latest scholarly and general books from the University of Chicago Press.Ideas in Things- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Elaine Freedgood While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=200729 Inflation-Targeting Debate- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Ben S. Bernanke and Michael Woodford Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policymaking. As the name suggests, in such inflation-targeting regimes, the central bank is responsible for achieving a publicly announced target for the inflation rate. While the objective of controlling inflation enjoys wide support among both academic experts and policymakers, and while the.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=16485 Inspector Barlach Mysteries- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Friedrich Drrenmatt This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Drrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice seems to have vanished. In The Judge and His Hangman, Barlach forgoes the...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=215053 Intelligent Linguistic Architectures- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Miriam Butt, Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King Ronald M. Kaplan has made foundational contributions to the development of computational linguistic research and linguistic theory, particularly within Lexical-Functional Grammar. Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, a tribute to Kaplans cutting-edge work, collects computational and theoretical linguistics papers in his research areas. From machine translation to grammar engineering, from formal issues to semantic theory, this...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=223444 Into the Cool- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan look for answers in a surprising place: the second law of thermodynamics. This second law refers to energy's inevitable tendency to change from being concentrated in one place to becoming spread out...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=16572 Irish Social and Political Attitudes- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by John Garry, Niamh Hardiman, and Diane Payne Written between 431 and 740 CE, The Chronicle of Ireland provides unique insight into the early history of the Irish people and their culture, religious beliefs, and political disputes. This new two-volume translation by renowned scholar T. M. Charles-Edwards is accompanied by a thorough introduction that places the annals of Ireland within a larger historical context. The Chronicle of Ireland is an informative and accessible introduction to.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=168933 Island Voices- (Found June 24, 2008 ) John C. Kennedy Like their counterparts in developing countries, rural people living on the periphery of developed nations are increasingly vulnerable to forces beyond their control. Farmers, miners, and fishermen must cope with periodic resource scarcities, fluctuating global markets, and neoliberal trade pacts. Island Voices explores this struggle through the perspective of people living on Arnya, an island off northern Norway. John C. Kennedy spent years collecting their stories, each of...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=211100 Monkey and the Monk- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Translated and Edited by Anthony C. Yu Anthony C. Yus celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literatures most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yus abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk,finally distills the epic novels most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=204340 |