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A look at the history of the idea of the objective journalist and how this very ideal can often be used to undercut itself. In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history...

Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours [finds] us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so, and with [this book], he shows...

Author: Philip BallPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Oct 12, 2020Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 022675460XISBN-13: 9780226754604

In the cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica, pairs of male long-tailed manakins-clad in their stunning, red, blue, and black plumage-use perches as a stage for a coordinated song-and-dance to...

Author: Carlo RotellaPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublication Date: Sep 18, 2020Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 022675961XISBN-13: 9780226759616

Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called ?remission society? of those who...

Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin?s...

Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting. Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques...

Interviews with ten former Nazis comprise the core of this penetrating study of the psychological causes of Nazism and their implications for modern Germany.Author: Milton MayerPublisher: University...

This book is about Charles Fort, his followers, and the surprising influence they have had on science fiction, the avant-garde, UFOlogy, and more broadly on the role of spirituality and conspiracy in...

Their names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank...

When we talk about the economy, ?he market?is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to...

Interrogates the connections between a city?s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks...

Us And Them: The Science Of IdentityAuthor: David BerrebyPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2008Number of Pages: 396 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Eminent musicologist H. C. Robbins Landon rediscovers the composer through an accessible and musically informed biography. Presenting documentation about Vivaldi discovered after the Baroque revival...

Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has...

The compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science. From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds...

Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperiled animals. The image most of us have of whalers...

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state? policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty?ow known as basic income?s hardly new. Often dated as...

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of...

Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of...

This book leads you to your research project while keeping your own preferences, abilities, and values centered. The authors place a strong and welcome emphasis on finding a research project that is...

A clear, accessible, and fun guide on everything it takes to land a job. Searching for a job can be hard and demoralizing work. In Why You, Why Me, Why Now, Rachel Toor delivers some good news. The...

A philosopher?s case for the importance of good?if ethically questionable?humor. A good sense of humor is key to the good life, but a joke taken too far can get anyone into trouble. Where to draw the...

The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address. That highlighted a bigger problem of financing...

A surprising look at the meaningful social changes in Jordan as lived and navigated by educated women. Jordan has witnessed tremendous societal transformation in its relatively short history. Today...

A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture?s normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the...

For more than 30 years, Writing for Social Scientists has offered readers a powerful reassurance: academic writing is difficult, and even accomplished scholars like Howard S. Becker struggle with it...

Twenty-five years after its first publication, Young Men and Fire is read avidly by students of literary nonfiction for its blend of hard-earned research, memoir, and an old man's wisdom. It tells...