Chicago Works

Author : University of Chicago. Press
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ISBN 13 : 9780226104041
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chicago Manual of Style written by University of Chicago. Press and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.

Author : Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226774954
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Formality Works written by Arthur L. Stinchcombe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : why is formality so unpopular? -- A redefinition of the concept of formality -- Legal formality and graphical planning languages -- Certainty of the law : reasons, situation-types, analogy, and equilibrium -- The social structure of liquidity : flexibility in markets, states, and organizations / Bruce G. Carruthers, Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Formalizing rightlessness in immigration law and administration -- Formalizing epistemological stratification of knowledge -- Conclusion : the varieties of formality.

Author : Kate L. Turabian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Manual for Writers of Dissertations written by Kate L. Turabian and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627621X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heat Wave written by Eric Klinenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes

Author : Robin Bartram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226821137
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stacked Decks written by Robin Bartram and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling look at the power and perspectives of city building inspectors as they navigate unequal housing landscapes. Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at the heart of sociologist Robin Bartram’s analysis of how individuals impact—or attempt to impact—housing inequality. In Stacked Decks, she reveals surprising patterns in the judgment calls inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. These predominantly white, male inspectors largely recognize that they work within an unequal housing landscape that systematically disadvantages poor people and people of color through redlining, property taxes, and city spending that favor wealthy neighborhoods. Stacked Decks illustrates the uphill battle inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources.

Author : Robert Shackleton
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849684822
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Chicago written by Robert Shackleton and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his facile, chatty way the author tells of the city's marvelous growth, taking us from the Loop through that Olympus of Chicago, the Lake Shore Drive to Oak Park and South Chicago. The landmarks of the early settlers and the “beauty spots” of the modern city are all described in such a manner that they cannot fail to appeal to even the most conservative of Easterners. Mr. Shackleton in all his books of the cities, shows each one distinctly; its characteristics, institutions, literary traditions, landmarks, and its people. Nothing is too small for him to chronicle—their habits of speech, their eating, ancestor worship. In each city he manages to discover many odd corners not found by the usual sightseer. His is a sympathetic, clear-eyed, often humorous interpretation of the city in each case.

Author : Davarian L. Baldwin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807887609
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's New Negroes written by Davarian L. Baldwin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a "marketplace intellectual life." Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life.

Author : Daniel F. Chambliss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067472609X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How College Works written by Daniel F. Chambliss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's success, and puts forward a set of small, inexpensive interventions that yield substantial improvements in educational outcomes. At a liberal arts college in New York, the authors followed nearly one hundred students over eight years. The curricular and technological innovations beloved by administrators mattered much less than did professors and peers, especially early on. At every turning point in undergraduate lives, it was the people, not the programs, that proved critical. Great teachers were more important than the topics studied, and just two or three good friendships made a significant difference academically as well as socially. For most students, college works best when it provides the daily motivation to learn, not just access to information. Improving higher education means focusing on the quality of relationships with mentors and classmates, for when students form the right bonds, they make the most of their education.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering World written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurie Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962544613
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago Works written by Laurie Levy and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of great stories by top Chicago authors, this anthology contains 21 short stories, each originally published in an internationally famous literary market. The themes of the stories cover everything Chicago -- from its history and politics to its social structure -- in a way that brings to life a vibrant and diverse city. The stories are set against backdrops as various as the local addresses of Lake Shore Drive, a city tenement basement, and an affluent suburb, as well as national locales such as Iowa and Oklahoma City and international locales such as the Middle East and Europe. But whatever the stories' settings, the writers have one thing in common: they all live and work in the Chicago area. With a foreword by Chicago's mayor, Richard M. Daley, this collection demonstrates the extraordinary literary talent of Chicago.