Literatura obcojęzyczna The University of Chicago Press

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the 'scientific method' - a model...

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's "Principles of Geology" has never before been available...

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions...

Despite intense interest in this biologically diverse and ecologically important region, the mammals of South America are still not well...

Since his pioneering Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic...

This book describes the process of erecting the great cathedrals in the Gothic era. Since there are no contemporary accounts of the techniques...

Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes...

A completely revised and updated edition of this kanon anthology of medieval Latin, this work has been provided with 14 new selections,...

In this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for the changes in...

Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that inspired...

One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from...

Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era"...

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret...

What does "jihad" really mean? What is the Muslim conception of law? What is Islam's stance toward unbelievers? Probing literary and historical...

Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set...

This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and...

The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to...

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections....

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available...

Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena...

In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused...

Dogs and humans have worked side żeby side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we've come to depend upon our pooches as hunters,...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic...

How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim...

In the period domoninated żeby the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic...

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights...

Approximately 99% of all life that has ever existed is extinct. Fortunately, these long dead species have left traces of their lives and...

Emphasizing the primary importance of Hermetism in Renaissance thought, Yates demonstrates that Bruno was at once a rational philospher...

Stimulating, provocative, often infuriating, but well worth reading.--Peter Newman, Economica His critical blast blows like a north wind...

The so-called 'Bone Wars' of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection...

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most...

Art history traditionally classifics works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are...

"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology".--David R. Oldroyd, "Science" "After a superficial first glance, most readers...

"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone who...

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini...

"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss' classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides...

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street,...

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal...

Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works--Arabian Nights, The Gospel According...

During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history...

The Paleobiological Revolution bronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field....

The classic study of dog behavior gathered into one volume. Based on twenty years of research at the Jackson Laboratory, this is the single...

Documents cultural and religious sites across the Tibetan Plateau and its bordering regions from the Paleolithic and Neolithic times all...

Algebraic topology is a basic part of modern mathematics and some knowledge of this area is indispensable for any advanced work relating...

Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's "Meaning in the Visual Arts" has been standard reading for students of art history. It...

An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make consciously or unconsciouslym...

Plato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written....

In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco...

"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the...

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies żeby considering landscape not simply as...

In this widely acclaimed work, James Ackerman considers in detail the buildings designed żeby Michelangelo in Florence and Rome--including...

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading...

""Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different...

Biologists, Breeders and trainers, and champion sled dog racers, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger have more than four decades of experience with...

In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach,...

The crazy story of how Soviet scientists in Siberia in the 1950s embarked on a project to turn foxes into dogs through selective breeding-and...

"The Biology of Sharks and Rays" is a comprehensive resource on the biological and physiological characteristics of the cartilaginous fishes:...

Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly...

Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred...

The stock market is central to the global economy. Tens of millions of people look to it to provide for a comfortable retirement. Central...

Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working...

Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" has acquired a paradoxical reputation as one of the most important and most impenetrable and inconsistent...

In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction...

Through careful textual readings of Gogol's most famous works, Karlinsky argues that Gogol's homosexual orientation--which Gogol himself...

We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets...

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain." But questions about...

The First World War was marked żeby an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things...

With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation...

Through most of its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything...

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects--with some ant queens...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic...

"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second...

In the late eighteenth century, the British took greater interest than ever before in observing and recording all aspects of the natural...

A CLASSIC WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY--OVER SEVENTY THOUSAND COPIES SOLD With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner David I. Kertzer Arnold...

Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and as a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been defended and...

This monument of rabbinical exegesis, written at the end of the twelfth century, has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish...

A recent report warns that nearly 20 per cent of the world's primates may go extinct by 2020. This work integrates theoretical advances...

Bad writing is bad for science. Incomprehensible journal articles, wordy proposals, and jargon-filled theses make reading a chore for students,...

Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought aby modern technology: the threat of...

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences...

As it changed forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new type of personality: the confirmed,...

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans...

This second edition of Gary S. Becker's "The Economics of Discrimination" has been expanded to include three further discussions of the...

"Behemoth, or The Long Parliament" is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)....

"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in...

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from...

"Crisis of the House Divided" is the kanon historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry V. Jaffa provides the definitive analysis...

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum...

Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful - all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for...

Describes the development of chimaycha, a Quechua-language music genre, over the last fifty years, in order to show how changes in performance...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions...

For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers...

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life-growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many...

Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological...

What Kinship Is-And Is Not offers, on its surface, a simple theoretical argument, laid out in the titles of its mere two chapters: kinship...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic...

Zoos, aquariums, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions...

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history of science....

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934...

No other Sanskrit work approaches the "Bhagavadgita "in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other...

The writings of the Marquis de Sade have recently attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Now Sade himself is often celebrated...

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,...

Through its emphasis on recent research, its many summary tables, and its bibliography of more than 4,000 entries, this first modern, synthetic...

In The Hunter, the first volume in the series, Parker roars into New York City, seeking revenge on the woman who betrayed him and on the...

In his introduction to this collection of the writings of William James, John J. McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations,...

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences...

Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under...

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges 'the limits of classical analytic...

Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in the information age. It relates three interwoven stories: how...

Classic creative writing text now in its tenth edition.

There are more than 1,300 species of bats - or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these...

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the...

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence...

From medieval bestiaries to Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, we've long been enchanted żeby extraordinary animals, be they terrifying...

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant,...

The Evolution of Vertebrate Design is a solid introduction to vertebrate evolution, paleontology, vertebrate biology, and functional, comparative...

A case for and against cities: they're the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they're also...

This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural...