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As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as...

A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and preacher John Donne...

How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age...

Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections Of Japanese Student SoldiersAuthor: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Apr 15, 2007Number of Pages: 246 pagesLanguage:...

?When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over?like this world, and some of the people in it.? In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would...

?A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it...

Author: Charles FrankelPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Nov 26, 2021Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0226816729ISBN-13: 9780226816722

When Paul Ricoeur died in 2005, the New York Times described him as one of the most eminent philosophers of the twentieth century." In his lifetime, Ricoeur published influential works on language,...

The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity...

Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women?s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. The...

?I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert.? An...

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient?s economic productivity. Madness and...

Drawing on economics, sociology, geography, and psychology, Galster delivers a clear-sighted explanation of what neighborhoods are, how they come to be?nd what they should be. Urban theorists have...

Manual For Writers Of Research Papers, Theses, And Dissertations,: Chicago Style For Students And ResearchersAuthor: Kate L. TurabianPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Apr 16,...

An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a ?material politics of repair? in post-genocide Rwanda, where in a country...

John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais,...

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against...

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...

Think of a time when you?ve feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when...

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry. In My Poetics, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic,...

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty. In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions...

A cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory. In the final section of Negro Mountain, C...

Ecce Homo and The Antichrist address the interrelated questions of what a philosopher is and what constitutes a philosophic life. Nietzsche's Legacy conceives of these twin books as the late major...

Together at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career...

An engaging account of social reformer Jack Robbins, the Boys? Brotherhood Republic, and their legacy. In 1914, social reformer Jack Robbins and a group of adolescent boys in Chicago founded the...

5. Rodeo, Mexico -- various US cities, 1994-1997 -- 6. Landslide, 1997 -- Four -- 1. Auburn, 1952-1959 -- 2. Landslide, 2009 -- 3. Houston, Texas, 1999 -- 4. La Grange, Texas, 1999 -- 5. Landslide,...

A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of ?long modernism.? In recent decades, Virginia Woolf?s contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition...

An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social climbers have often been the core characters of...

Emily Ogden's On Not Knowing is at once a memoir and suite of pointed inquiries. Her brief, sharply observed essays invite the reader to think with her about problems she can't set aside: not knowing...

Author: William GermanoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Nov 05, 2021Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 022641065XISBN-13: 9780226410654