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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...without forming an organic part of such name: the river Elbe, the desert of Sahara, the island of Madagascar. 3. Adjectives and nouns, used singly o... ...unction, to distinguish definite regions or parts of the world: Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the ... ...il War (American), War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War, Battle of Gettysburg; Peace of Utrecht, Louisiana Purchase. 14. Political alliances, and such ... ...eaties,acts, laws (juridical), bills,etc. : Treaty of Verdun, Art. V of the Peace of Prague, Edict of Nantes, Concordat, the Constitution (of the Un... ...t is sufticiently plain that the sciences of life, at least, are studies of processes." 51. From foreign languages, words and phrases inserted into... ...ralistic point of view, mental states are the concomitants of physiological processes . . . . :' "The French, generally speaking, are a nation of ar... ... the static. 54 The University of Chicago Press and the Hegelian world of process-how great the contrast !" " ' Process'-that is the magic word of... ...n optimist or a fatalist. There was, no doubt, the manifest gain of a great peace throughout the world, of the real settlement of disputes by the arb...

...w 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 di...

...to the “brainery”—the proofreaders who corrected typographical errors and edited for stylistic inconsistencies. To bring a common set of rules to the process, the staff of the composing room drew up a style sheet, which was then passed on to the rest of the university community. Even at such an early stage, “the University Press style book and style sheet” was considered i...

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