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Orphan Trains: The Story Of Charles Loring Brace And The Children He Saved And FailedAuthor: Stephen O'ConnorPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2004Number of Pages: 384...

The interior of Antarctica is an utterly pristine wilderness; a desolate landscape of ice, wind, and rock; a landscape so unfamiliar as to seem of another world. This place is known to only a handful...

Generations of political scientists argue that American politics needs strong, cohesive parties to function effectively. Yet more recently, many worry that such vigorous partisan sentiments--most...

An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of...

When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the...

The group of artists known as the Pictures Generation" are usually thought to have rebelled against abstract and minimalist art by bringing back figural techniques and borrowing liberally from the...

An insightful commentary on Plato?s Laws, his complex final work. The Laws was Plato?s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract...

Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia?s wonderfully unique mammals?and how our perceptions impact their future. Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into...

A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip...

An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students. While college initiates a major transition in all students? lives, low-income and...

Living in ancient Rome was one of the most intense experiences in human history. It was also superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians and poets, who were acutely aware of the seething and...

Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the...

Presionts, Populism, And The Crisis Of Democracy - 9780226763170Author: William G Howell, Terry M MoePublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Aug 05, 2020Number of Pages: 256...

From a founding figure in the field, the definitive introduction to an exciting new science. What do the sounds of a chorus of tropical birds and frogs, a clap of thunder, and a cacophony of urban...

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ?0s, comic books were some of the most popular?nd most...

A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists? ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain...

Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly. Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three...

A close and selective commentary on Aristotle?s Nicomachean Ethics, offering a novel interpretation of Aristotle?s teachings on the relation between reason and moral virtue. What does it mean to live...

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you?ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those...

A deep examination of why respect is in short supply in politics today and why it matters. Respect is in trouble in the United States. Many Americans believe respecting others is a necessary virtue,...

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post?Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived...

The Eternal City, Rome offers endless insights through its millennia of history, its centrality to European art and religion, and the generations of travelers that have sought it out. This book from...

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology. From the early days of television broadcasts to today?s live streams, opera...

A study of Shakespeare?s child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fond of saying that ?children are the future.? How did the child become a figure...

How inflation fears shaped American society, then and now. For most of its history, the United States has benefited from price stability-a steady relationship between supply and demand, characterized...

A disillusioned writer in San Juan finds himself stalked by a Chinese immigrant student, and as the two realize that they share a similar plight, they move towards bitter-sweet collaborations in...

Snakes, Sunrises, And Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes Our Loves And FearsAuthor: Gordon H. OriansPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Apr 27, 2015Number of Pages: 232...

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into...

In this convincing book, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon argues against the hopeless passivity we too often feel when confronted with dire predictions about the future of our planet. Her antidote...

An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and...