University Of Chicago Press imprint: 2653 books
Opting Out
Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and...
Distorting the Law
Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.
Scholars have argued...
In Quest of the Ordinary
Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge,...
American Evangelicalism
Embattled and Thriving
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Evangelicalism is one of the strongest religious traditions in America today; 20 million Americans identify themselves with the evangelical movement. Given the modern pluralistic world we live in, why is evangelicalism so popular?
Based on a national telephone survey and more than three hundred...
To Flourish or Destruct
A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what...
Nothing
Three Inquiries in Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism’s global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that...
by Michael R. Canfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff’s edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer—he was also a naturalist and campaigner for conservation....
Confronting Torture
Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity—theirs and ours. And yet, when confronted with horrendous events in...
by Alan R. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it’s no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today’s biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution—natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow—but say little about the evidence...
by Carl Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. Rabbits with Horns and Other Astounding Viruses explores the bizarre places viruses dwell, and considers the often unexpected ways they influence our world. From agricultural production and crystal...
Darwin's Cathedral
Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary...
Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat
The Science Behind Revulsion
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Every flu season, sneezing, coughing, and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as far—and as quickly—away from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively, humans recoil from objects that they view as...
Discerning Experts
The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Discerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific...
by John N. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
“It is not only the species that change evolutionarily through interactions . . . the interactions themselves also change.” Thus states John N. Thompson in the foreword to Interaction and Coevolution, the first title in his series of books exploring the relentless nature of evolution and the processes...