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Sophocles II

Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Sophocles II contains the plays “Ajax,” translated by John Moore; “The Women of Trachis,” translated by Michael Jameson; “Electra,” translated by David Grene; “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; and “The Trackers,” translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the...

Aeschylus I

The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Aeschylus I contains “The Persians,” translated by Seth Benardete; “The Seven Against Thebes,” translated by David Grene; “The Suppliant Maidens,” translated by Seth Benardete; and “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene.   Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago...

Aeschylus II

The Oresteia

by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Aeschylus II contains “The Oresteia,” translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of “Proteus,” translated by Mark Griffith.   Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...

Greek Tragedies 3

Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

Greek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith;...

Greek Tragedies 1

Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides’s...

First Son

The Biography of Richard M. Daley

by Keith Koeneman
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time,' he said." New York Times, September 7, 2010 With...

Brown in the Windy City

Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

by Lilia Fernández
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment...

Sophocles I

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald.   Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation...

Euripides III

Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion

by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Euripides III contains the plays “Heracles,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; and “Ion,” translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts.   Sixty years ago, the...

Euripides IV

Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes

by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Euripides IV contains the plays “Helen,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “The Phoenician Women,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and “Orestes,” translated by William Arrowsmith.   Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation...

Greek Tragedies 2

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

Greek Tragedies, Volume II contains Aeschylus’s “The Libation Bearers,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Electra,” translated by David Grene; Euripides’s “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; Euripides’s “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend...
by Bryan A. Garner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style’s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and...

How to Study

Suggestions for High-School and College Students

by Arthur W. Kornhauser
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

A complete guide for successful studying, How to Study is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at the University of Chicago, this smart book has helped generations of students throughout the country improve their skills in learning quickly and effectively....

Crossing Parish Boundaries

Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954

by Timothy B. Neary
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago’s mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialism seemed stubbornly unattainable, and the national...
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