University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
A 21st Century Bestiary
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology—they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs...
Iconology
Image, Text, Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
The Cruel Radiance
Photography and Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images—and learning to see the people in them—is an ethically...
1971
A Year in the Life of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: Contemporary Black Artists in America, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The DeLuxe Show,...
The Silent Musician
Why Conducting Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
The conductor—tuxedoed, imposingly poised above an orchestra, baton waving dramatically—is a familiar figure even for those who never set foot in an orchestral hall. As a veritable icon for classical music, the conductor has also been subjected to some ungenerous caricatures, presented variously...
Talk of Love
How Culture Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler's Talk of Love is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how that culture of love shapes their expectations and behavior in the process. To this end, Swidler...
by Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court.
As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. In his...
Health Care for Some
Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing...
Dream Trippers
Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western “alternative” spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China.
Dream Trippers draws on more than a decade of ethnographic...
Ours to Lose
When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Though New York’s Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and ’80s Manhattan.
Those decades of strife, however, also...
by Barbara J. King
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun...
by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective...
The Hollow Hope
Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition...
by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless...