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In 2022, Los Angeles became the US city with the largest population of unhoused people, a stark contrast with the city's luxurious hillside mansions. This book from sociologist Neil Gong traces the...

Author: SophoclesPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Apr 19, 2013Number of Pages: 238 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0226311511ISBN-13: 9780226311517

Author: Jonathan KernPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2008Number of Pages: 380 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0226431789ISBN-13: 9780226431789

An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That...

An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies,...

A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971?and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a Camden, New Jersey,...

States of Plague examines Albert Camus? novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed...

States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time. One of the...

A long-overdue guide on how to use statistics to bring clarity, not confusion, to policy work. Statistics are an essential tool for making, evaluating, and improving public policy. Statistics for...

How inequality was forged, fought over, and forgotten through public policy in metropolitan Chicago. As in many American metropolitan areas, inequality in Chicagoland is visible in its neighborhoods...

Student'S Guide To Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition (Chicago Guides To Writing, Editing, And Publishing)Author: Kate L. TurabianPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Jun 28,...

Suicidal: Why We Kill OurselvesAuthor: Jesse BeringPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Oct 23, 2020Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Aeneid - 9780226817286Author: VirgilPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 480 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0226817288ISBN-13:...

In recent years, more and more of our lives takes place online. But what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails of data we leave behind, much of who we are" can be reconstructed-even...

This volume brings together Seth Benardete?s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle?s Metaphysics. The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth...

Everyone who writes a novel, a poem, or a memoir almost certainly conducts research along the waywhether to develop a story idea, or to capture the voice, the speech patterns, or the exact words of a...

Andrew Kahrl's enraging national assessment of legal and financial dispossession proves that African Americans property owners have long been beset by racist practices, invisible obstacles, and...

Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls ?the Blue Period.? In the years after World War II, to be a...

Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you?ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event?and an...

The definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business. You?ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don?t know where to start. In a time when...

Although The Chicago Manual of Style is widely used by writers and editors of all stripes, it is primarily geared toward nonfiction. In this book, Amy J. Schneider--who has copyedited fiction in all...

One of the most important Stoic philosophers is Epictetus. Epictetus (c. 50 - 135 CE) was a Greek enslaved person who established an important school of Stoic philosophy in Rome. Epictetus is...

Author: John SchultzPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Oct 16, 2020Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 022676074XISBN-13: 9780226760742

Americans today are increasingly uneasy about the democratic weaknesses of their Federal Constitution. But for most of living memory that very Constitution has been idealized as near perfect. How...

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended--failed, even--in the German...

Of all the aspects of making a book, design is perhaps the most mysterious. Authors and readers surely realize that covers are designed objects that, like it or not, books are commonly judged by. But...

An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The...

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even...

In this turbulent time for American's natural and cultural heritage, we need a clear and compelling guide for the future of conservation in America: a declaration to inspire the next generation of...

A potent re-examination of America?s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal...