University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
School for Cool
The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die—so some fear—at the university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues, many aspiring jazz musicians today learn their craft, and find their careers, in one of the many academic programs that now...
Mahler
A Musical Physiognomy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that...
Hope on Earth
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michael Charles Tobias,...
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questions, and used his own intellectual inquisitiveness...
Inventing Chemistry
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is...
by Brian Z. Tamanaha
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisers, and government officials. Yet behind the flourishing...
The Graduate Advisor Handbook
A Student-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In the sink-or-swim world of academia, a great graduate advising can be a lifesaver. But with university budgets shrinking and free time evaporating, advisors often need a mentor themselves to learn how to best support their advisees. Bruce M. Shore, an award-winning advisor with more than forty years...
Aspiring Adults Adrift
Tentative Transitions of College Graduates
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Few books have ever made their presence felt on college campuses—and newspaper opinion pages—as quickly and thoroughly as Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s 2011 landmark study of undergraduates’ learning, socialization, and study habits, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses....
Behind the Academic Curtain
How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with...
Innovation Policy and the Economy 2014
Volume 15
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
The fifteenth volume of Innovation Policy and the Economy is the first to focus on a single theme: high-skilled immigration to the United States. The first paper is the product of a long-term research effort on the impact of immigration to the United States of Russian mathematicians beginning around...
Consumed
Food for a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same time, we have lost touch with the soil—few of us...
I'll Tell You Mine
Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the...
Renaissance Self-Fashioning
From More to Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and...
Getting It Published
A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
For more than a decade, writers have turned to William Germano for his insider’s take on navigating the world of scholarly publishing. A professor, author, and thirty-year veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers need to know to get their work published.
Today...