University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
American Imperial Pastoral
The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously “Made No Little Plans,” set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition. Charged with designing environments for the occupation government, Burnham set out to convey the ambitions and the dominance...
Habitual Offenders
A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna’s convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, reopened after...
Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist...
Red Revolution, Green Revolution
Scientific Farming in Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could...
Shakespeare and the Law
A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and...
Historiography
Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins...
Democracy in America?
What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. Yet the government consistently ignores the needs of its citizens, paying attention instead to donors and organized interests. Real issues are held hostage to demagoguery, partisanship...
Transformative Political Leadership
Making a Difference in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders...
Truth Machine
The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
DNA profiling—commonly known as DNA fingerprinting—is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable “truth machine” that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. But DNA evidence is far from infallible. Truth...
Southern Stalemate
Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
In 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens public education. Investigating this remarkable...
One Hour in Paris
A True Story of Rape and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. One Hour in Paris takes the reader on a harrowing yet inspirational journey through suffering and recovery both...
by Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Of the world’s dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are four times as many dogs who are their own masters—neighborhood dogs, dump dogs, mountain dogs. They are dogs, not companions,...
by Raymond Coppinger, Mark Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as “man’s best friend,” but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein know something about...
Canine Confidential
Why Dogs Do What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
For all the love and attention we give dogs, much of what they do remains mysterious. Just think about different behaviors you see at a dog park: We have a good understanding of what it means when dogs wag their tails—but what about when they sniff and roll on a stinky spot? Why do they play tug-of-war...