University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
Tunnel Visions
The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan...
The Green Eagle Score
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Here’s Parker—planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers. Holed up with family in a scrappy little town, the hoisters prepare for the risky job by trying to shorten...
The Black Ice Score
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back—with the help of a “specialist”—Parker, that is. He has the best references in...
Sleep Demons
An Insomniac’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries—eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don’t, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our...
Van Gogh on Demand
China and the Readymade
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings a year. To write about work and life in...
The Tewa World
Space, Time, Being and Becoming in a Pueblo Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
"This is a book that springs from richness. . . valuable not only for anthropologists and sociologists. . . the interested but unskilled layman will find a treasure trove as well. One thing seems certain. If this book does not become THE authority for the scholar, it will certainly never be ignored....
Time Travel and Warp Drives
A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/timewarp/
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that...
Educated in Romance
Women, Achievement, and College Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive "culture of romance"...
by Thomas Kochman
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."—Marjorie Harness Goodwin, American Ethnologist
Thinking Through Methods
A Social Science Primer
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Sociological research is hard enough already—you don’t need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you’re doing or where you’re heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous...
Tricks of the Trade
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students...
by Tristan Kimbrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Environmental law has an unquestionable effect on the species, ecosystems, and landscapes that biologists study—and vice-versa, as the research of these biologists frequently informs policy. But because many scientists receive little or no legal training, we know relatively little about the precise...
Crime and Justice, Volume 45
Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julian V. Roberts and Andrew Ashworth on the evolution...
Abductive Analysis
Theorizing Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes. The book provides...