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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...

The Great Derangement: Climate Change And The Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures)Author: Amitav GhoshPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Jul 24, 2017Number of Pages: 176...

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoac?n, Mexico. He died the next day. In The Great Prince Died,...

The story behind the creation of Les Quatre Vents, one of the world's most breathtaking public gardens. As featured in the 2018 film The Gardener, Les Quatre Vents in Charlevoix County, Quebec, has...

Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus? son Achilleus / and its devastation. For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation?the gold...

A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained...

A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn?s unfinished book, The...

In The Librarian's Atlas, Seth Kimmel explores the material history of libraries to challenge debates about the practice and politics of information management in early modern Europe. Ancient...

A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan...

The Magic Lantern: An AutobiographyAuthor: Ingmar BergmanPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: May 15, 2007Number of Pages: 316 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon...

Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the...

Author: NaPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Nov 15, 2006Number of Pages: 528 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0226971562ISBN-13: 9780226971568

The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution. -- Back cover...

From 1958 to 1978 in New York a series of atmospheric irruptions emerged in the history of music, fraught with dissonance, obscurity, and volume. Beyond expanding musical resources into dissonance...

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music?s ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical...

Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality. There?s a common story we...

David Alff's stylish cultural history of the Northeast Corridor not only illuminates the history and geography of that heavily traveled stretch of railroad between Union Station in Washington, DC,...

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism?s violent exploitation of human life...

A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it...

A provocative study of contemporary Tantra as a dynamic living tradition. Tantra, one of the most important religious currents in South Asia, is often misrepresented as little more than ritualized...

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth...

American higher education is more expensive than ever and the rewards seem to be diminishing daily. Sociologist Tim Clydesdale s new book, however, offers some rare good news: when colleges and...

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for...

In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world?s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and...

Author: Ann FabianPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Dec 21, 2020Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 022676057XISBN-13: 9780226760575

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We commonly think of ourselves as living amid an unprecedented abundance of...

A deep dive into the mechanics of national human rights institutions and the forces that make or break their success. In the years since World War II, the endeavor to promote human rights has gained...

The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions: 50Th Anniversary EditionAuthor: Thomas S. KuhnPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Apr 30, 2012Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage:...