University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
In Defense of Disciplines
Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity. Challenging the belief...
The Constitution of the United States
A Primer for the People
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
A masterly introduction to the United States Constitution, this slim book leads the reader through a concise overview of the document's individual articles and amendments. With clear and accessible language, Currie then examines each of the three branches of the federal government and explains the...
Oscar Wilde Prefigured
Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
“I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad,” Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom—which erupted in laughter—accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury’s horror...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Supreme Court Economic Review is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging, and contributions employ explicit or implicit economic reasoning for the analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Supreme Court Economic Review is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit or implicit economic reasoning for the analysis of...
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study....
The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909–93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identities he had performed during his life: as Samuel Steward,...
Crime and Justice, Volume 43
Why Crime Rates Fall, and Why They Don't
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Violent and property crime rates in all Western countries have been falling since the early and mid-1990s, after rising in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people have noticed the common patterns and fewer have attempted to understand or explain them. Yet the implications are essential for thinking about...
Between Mao and McCarthy
Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York.
Between Mao and McCarthy looks...
Unnatural Emotions
Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
"An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."—Karl G. Heider, American Anthropologist
Enduring Truths
Sojourner's Shadows and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively inexpensive...
Sex, Death, and Minuets
Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701–60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history’s most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists...
Wherever the Sound Takes You
Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He’s spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In Wherever the Sound Takes You, he explores the essence of music’s meaning with a vast spectrum of players, trying...
by Nathalie Sarraute
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits, which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute’s most accessible...