The Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style
15th Edition

Edited by University of Chicago Press Staff

Chicago University Press

ISBN: 9780226104034

Cloth 984 pages

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In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book—the first edition of the Manual of Style, published in 1906. Now in its fifteenth edition, The Chicago Manual of Style—the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers in any field—is more comprehensive and easier to use than ever before.

Those who work with words know how dramatically publishing has changed in the past decade, with technology now informing and influencing every stage of the writing and publishing process. In creating the fifteenth edition of the Manual, Chicago's renowned editorial staff drew on direct experience of these changes, as well as on the recommendations of the Manual's first advisory board, composed of a distinguished group of scholars, authors, and professionals from a wide range of publishing and business environments.

Every aspect of coverage has been examined and brought up to date—from publishing formats to editorial style and method, from documentation of electronic sources to book design and production, and everything in between. In addition to books, the Manual now also treats journals and electronic publications. All chapters are written for the electronic age, with advice on how to prepare and edit manuscripts online, handle copyright and permissions issues raised by technology, use new methods of preparing mathematical copy, and cite electronic and online sources.

A new chapter covers American English grammar and usage, outlining the grammatical structure of English, showing how to put words and phrases together to achieve clarity, and identifying common errors. The two chapters on documentation have been reorganized and updated: the first now describes the two main systems preferred by Chicago, and the second discusses specific elements and subject matter, with examples of both systems. Coverage of design and manufacturing has been streamlined to reflect what writers and editors need to know about current procedures. And, to make it easier to search for information, each numbered paragraph throughout the Manual is now introduced by a descriptive heading.

Clear, concise, and replete with commonsense advice, The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition, offers the wisdom of a hundred years of editorial practice while including a wealth of new topics and updated perspectives. For anyone who works with words, whether on a page or computer screen, this continues to be the one reference book you simply must have.

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Bad Marxism - Capitalism and Cultural Studies

Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
John Hutnyk

Pluto Press
ISBN :9780745322667
Paperback 264 Pages
Price :£17.99

Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. Cultural theorists love to toy with Marx, but critical thinking seems to fall into obvious traps. After an introduction which explains why the 'Marxism' of the academy is unrecognisable and largely unrecognised in anti-capitalist struggles, Bad Marxism provides detailed analyses of Cultural Studies' cherished moves by holding fieldwork, archives, empires, hybrids and exchange up against the practical criticism of anti-capitalism. Engaging with the work of key thinkers: Jacques Derrida, James Clifford, Gayatri Spivak, Georges Bataille, Homi Bhabha, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri, Hutnyk concludes by advocating an open Marxism that is both pro-party and pro-critique, while being neither dogmatic, nor dull.

Marxists on Literature: An Anthology

Marxists on Literature: An Anthology
David Craig (Editor)


Penguin Books
ISBN :9780140218091
Paperback 528 Pages


Marxists on Literature includes pieces by Thomson (2), Plekhanov (2), Caudwell, Matthews, Craig (2), Kiernan, Marx, Engels (3), Kettle, Mitchell, Lukac (2), Lenin, Trotsky, Lu Hsun, Brecht, Serge, Adereth and Fischer. At first glance, a liberal principle of selection seems to be at work, and the Introduction makes great play with the idea that there is no unified Marxist view of literature. But this selection is offered as representative of the ‘rich and various’ Marxist interpretations of literature, and it is not representative. George Thomson gets three times as much space as Trotsky. There is no Benjamin, no Goldman, no Williams, no Sartre, no Eagleton, no Anderson – in fact, no work from Marxist contributors to New Left Review or to Working Papers in Cultural Studies. No piece (apart from the Introduction) is newer than ten years old. Can it be that these writers represent Marxist critical traditions ‘rather different from the ones represented in this book’ (to quote Craig’s weak excuse for omitting the seminal work of Raymond Williams) or have nothing significant to say? Or are there other reasons for leaving out the work of writers whose life’s work has been spent negotiating with the kind of Marxism represented by Craig? In any event, the pretended Marxist pluralism must be seen as liberalised Stalinism, or Stalinised liberalism.

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Insurgencies by Antonio Negri

Insurgencies
Constituent Power and the Modern State
Antonio Negri
Foreword by Michael Hardt
Translated by Maurizia Boscagli

University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816667741
December 2009
Paper Back 384 pages
Price :$30.00

In the ten years since the initial publication of Insurgencies, Antonio Negri’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost political philosophers has grown dramatically. An invigorating appraisal of revolutionary thought, Insurgencies is both the precursor to and the historical basis for Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s masterwork, Empire.
At the center of this book is the conflict between “constituent power,” the democratic force of revolutionary innovation, and “constituted power,” the fixed power of formal constitutions and central authority. This conflict, Negri argues, defines the drama of modern rebellions. Now with a foreword by Michael Hardt, Insurgencies leads to a new notion of how power and action must be understood if we are to achieve a democratic future.

Antonio Negri, who has taught at the University of Padua and the University of Paris, is the author of more than thirty books, including Empire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt; The Savage Anomalyy (Minnesota, 2000); and In Praise of the Common, with Cesare Casarino (Minnesota, 2008).
Michael Hardt is professor of literature at Duke University. He is the author of Empire and Multitude, with Antonio Negri, as well as Labor of Dionysus and Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Why Unions Matter by Michael D. Yates

Why Unions Matter
Michael D. Yates

Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 978-1-58367-190-0
Paperback 200 Pages
Price :$17.95

In Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to show why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.
The new edition not only updates the first, but also examines the record of the New Voice slate that took control of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the continuing decline in union membership and density, the Change to Win split in 2005, the growing importance of immigrant workers, the rise of worker centers, the impacts of and labor responses to globalization, and the need for labor to have an independent political voice. This is simply the best introduction to unions on the market.

Michael D. Yates is Associate Editor of Monthly Review and Editorial Director of Monthly Review Press. He has taught working people in Labor Studies programs at Penn State University; The University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Cornell University; Indiana University; and Baltimore County Community College. He is the author of Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue, Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy, and Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs.

The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
William H. Gass - Introduction

New York Review Books - April 2001
ISBN :9780940322660
Paperback 1392 pages
Price: $24.95

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it “the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing,” while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton’s spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today’s readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.

Robert Burton (1577-1640) was elected a student of Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1599 and took his B.D. in 1614. He served as a vicar in Oxford and then as the rector of Seagrave. The Anatomy of Melancholy appeared in five editions during the author's lifetime and has been reprinted countless times since.

The Feminist Papers - From Adams to de Beauvoir

The Feminist Papers
From Adams to de Beauvoir
Alice S. Rossi - Editor

Northeastern University Press
Distributed By University Press of New England
ISBN :9781555530280
Paper Back 716 Pages
Price : $27.95

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The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber

The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber - Volume. 1
Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists
Richard Altschuler - Editor

Gordian Knot Books
Distributed byUniversity Press of New England
ISBN :9781884092541
Paper Back 592 Pages
Price :$45.00

The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber - Volume. 2
Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists
Richard Altschuler - Editor

Gordian Knot Books
Distributed byUniversity Press of New England
ISBN :9781884092558
Paper Back 485 Pages
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An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain

Cosmos Latinos
An Anthology of Early Classics of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán - Editors

Wesleyan University Press
Distributed byUniversity Press of New England
9780819566348
Paper Back 368 Pages
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Opening a window onto a fascinating new world for English-speaking readers, this anthology offers popular and influential stories from over ten countries, chronologically ranging from 1862 to the present. Latin American and Spanish science fiction shares many thematic and stylistic elements with anglophone science fiction, but there are important differences: many downplay scientific plausibility, and others show the influence of the region’s celebrated literary fantastic. In the 27 stories included in this anthology, a 16th-century conquistador is re-envisioned as a cosmonaut, Mexican factory workers receive pleasure-giving bio-implants, and warring bands of terrorists travel through time attempting to reverse the outcome of historical events.
The introduction examines the ways the genre has developed in Latin America and Spain since the 1700s and studies science fiction as a means of defamiliarizing, and then critiquing, regional culture, history and politics—especially in times of censorship and political repression. The volume also includes a brief introduction to each story and its author, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works. Cosmos Latinos is a critical contribution to Latin American, Spanish, popular culture and science fiction studies and will be stimulating reading for anyone who likes a good story.
ANDREA L. BELL is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Hamline University in Minnesota.
YOLANDA MOLINA-GAVILÀN is Associate Professor of Spanish at Eckerd College in Florida and the translator of Rosa Montero’s The Delta Function (1992).

Poems of Nazim Hikmet

Poems of Nazim Hikmet
Nazim Hikmet
Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk (Translators)
Carloyn Forché (Foreword)

Persea Books
ISBN :9780892552740
Paperback 304 pages
Price :$17.95

This exciting new edition of the poems of Nazim Hikmet adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, already acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.

Nazim Hikmet is considered Turkey's greatest modern poet. For his Communist views, he was imprisoned in Turkey and his work was banned. His poetry has been translated into more than fifty languages. He won the World Peace Prize in 1950.
Randy Blading is author of seven books of poetry, including Choice Words: Poems 1970-2005.
Mutlu Konuk, a native of Istanbul, is Professor of English at Brown University.

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