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This engaging short book is both a mathematician's reflections on grief and a mathematically-informed theory of grieving. Michael Frame retired in 2016 as a professor of mathematics at Yale...

An accessible, illustrated introduction to statistics and sports analytics for fanatics and newcomers alike. On February 27, 2013, NBA shooter Steph Curry wowed crowds when he sunk eleven out of...

Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools. That's how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and...

Giordano Bruno (1548?1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland?s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus,...

The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators...

A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds. In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that...

?We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers...

Author: Mark Griffith, David Grene, Richmond LattimorePublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Apr 19, 2013Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Wallace demystifies the narratives of Beethoven?s approach to his hearing loss and instead explores how Beethoven did not "conquer" his deafness; he adapted to life with it. We?re all familiar with...

Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society?s?and her own?perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi?s world went...

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would...

Walden. Yesterday I came here to live. That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American...

The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence...

Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others. Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales...

The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States...

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you?ll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they?ll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great...

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology--the divide between germ and somatic cells--with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that...

Understand the Virus -- Explore the Immune System -- Discover a Vaccine -- Develop Vaccines -- Evaluate the Contenders -- Don't Count on the Magic Bullet -- Overcome the Hurdles -- Embrace Many...

Author: Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. HuqPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Sep 18, 2020Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 022675507XISBN-13:...

From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen, but do happen all the time. These are...

Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded EditionAuthor: Richard M. WeaverPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Nov 04, 2013Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of American culture's most iconic figures, inspiring countless derivations beyond the literary realm, from commercial illustration and kitch to art installations and video...

Regina Kunzel here draws upon previously unseen case files to argue for a much subtler understanding of how 20th-century LGBTQ Americans conceived of themselves and the diagnoses they received from...

As state funding to public universities becomes increasingly scarce, many universities have turned to a new student population to draw in revenue: international students. Typically fluent in English,...

The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that...

Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and...

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form...

A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era. In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted...

An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through...

Into The Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, And LifeAuthor: Eric D. Schneider, Dorion SaganPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Dec 31, 2006Number of Pages: 362 pagesLanguage:...