University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in different ways. This volume presents new evidence on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
"This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time....
Atoms in the Family
My Life with Enrico Fermi
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s—part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic...
The Politics of Custom
Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the global...
The Scientific Journal
Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of...
57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School
Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Don’t think about why you’re applying. Select a topic for entirely strategic reasons. Choose the coolest supervisor. Write only to deadlines. Expect people to hold your hand. Become “that” student.
When it comes to a masters or PhD program, most graduate students don’t deliberately...
Practical Healthcare Epidemiology
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In recent years, issues of infection prevention and control, patient safety, and quality-of-care have become increasingly prominent in healthcare facilities. Practical Healthcare Epidemiology takes a practical, hands-on approach to these issues, addressing all aspects of infection surveillance and...
Maps with the News
The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
"A most welcome...
Feminist Practices
Signs on the Syllabus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
A classroom resource for instructors that includes full syllabi and teaching modules, Feminist Practices will be of interest to anyone who teaches in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Feminist Practices is intended for use in classrooms and to spark creative ideas for teaching a diverse...
The Stone Soup Experiment
Why Cultural Boundaries Persist
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The Stone Soup Experiment is a remarkable story of cultural difference, of in-groups, out-groups, and how quickly and strongly the lines between them are drawn. It is also a story about simulation and reality, and how quickly the lines between them can be dismantled. In a compulsively readable account,...
The Adjunct Underclass
How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once...
Hayek on Hayek
An Autobiographical Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the iron curtain, and the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" all owe a tremendous debt to F. A. Hayek. Economist, social and political theorist, and intellectual historian, Hayek passionately championed individual liberty and condemned the dangers...
The Sour Lemon Score
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one....