University Of Chicago Press imprint: 2653 books

Great American City

Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

by Robert J. Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control....

Nobody Runs Forever

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels...
by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on...

The Jugger

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on...

The Handle

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style—and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing...

Dirty Money

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels...

The Mourner

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on...

Ask the Parrot

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels...

Breakout

A Parker Novel

by Richard Stark
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists and a code all his own. With the publication of the last four Parker novels...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating...
by Bill Granger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in his powerful novel Time for Frankie Coolin. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, it offers a serious,...

Freedom's Ballot

African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration

by Margaret Garb
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city’s first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest’s victory was astonishing. It...

Gardening with Perennials

Lessons from Chicago's Lurie Garden

by Noel Kingsbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

For gardeners, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. Perennial enthusiasts around the world might be surprised to find their muse in the middle of a bustling city. Lurie Garden, a nearly three-acre botanic garden in the center of Chicago’s lakefront in Millennium Park, is a veritable...

Renegade Dreams

Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

by Laurence Ralph
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: “13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city,” and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our focus on inner-city violence is on the death toll,...
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