University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
Professing Literature
An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our...
Biotechnology and Society
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
With Biotechnology and Society, Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, and life in the twenty-first century. Stevens addresses...
Reuben, Reuben
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really...
The Tunnel of Love
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. De Vries’s classic situation comedy The...
Not Under My Roof
Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Winner of the Healthy Teen Network’s Carol Mendez Cassell Award for Excellence in Sexuality Education and the American Sociological Association's Children and Youth Section's 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award
For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden:...
These Kids
Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a “last...
Kinship by Design
A History of Adoption in the Modern United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history.
Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred...
Empowering Education
Critical Teaching for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice...
Studying Human Behavior
How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus nurture.” Rather than supporting one side or another or attempting to replace that dichotomy with a different framework for understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today. The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead brings together a range of scholars who provide detailed analyses...
by Paul Tillich
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In this volume, the third and last of his Systematic Theology, Paul Tillich sets forth his ideas of the meaning of human life, the doctrine of the Spirit and the church, the trinitarian symbols, the relation of history to the Kingdom of God, and the eschatological symbols. He handles this subject...
by Leszek Kolakowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
"[An] important essay by a philosopher who more convincingly than any other I can think of demonstrates the continuing significance of his vocation in the life of our culture."—Karsten Harries, The New York Times Book Review
With The Presence of Myth, Kolakowski demonstrates that...
Misbehaving Science
Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Many behavior geneticists have encountered...
by Ellen Prager
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea’s waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of life—to reproduce, to eat, and to avoid being eaten....