University Of Chicago Press imprint: 2653 books
History of Western Civilization
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edition includes new material for the twentieth-century period and completely revised bibliographies....
by Thucydides, David Grene
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."—Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago
The Taxi-Dance Hall
A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.
Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction...
Boystown
Sex and Community in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this transformation assimilation, and some argue that we—gay...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche’s thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, taught in 1959 during Strauss’s tenure at the University of...
Lost Classroom, Lost Community
Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools—public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations—have opened, many in urban areas. With a particular emphasis...
Parish Boundaries
The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John McGreevy...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned...
Animals Without Backbones
An Introduction to the Invertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Animals Without Backbones has been considered a classic among biology textbooks since it was first published to great acclaim in 1938. It was the first biology textbook ever reviewed by Time and was also featured with illustrations in Life. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and more than...
by Robert Geroch
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Mathematical Physics is an introduction to such basic mathematical structures as groups, vector spaces, topological spaces, measure spaces, and Hilbert space. Geroch uses category theory to emphasize both the interrelationships among different structures and the unity of mathematics. Perhaps the most...
In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde
An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution’s staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at a contemporary art museum. From fund-raising...
by Stuart Dybek
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places—in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backwaters...
by Kate L. Turabian
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper—and for decades Kate L. Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago has reconceived and renewed this classic work...
Curriculum as Conversation
Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2008
“Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context,' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison.”—Gerald Graff, University of Chicago