Literatura obcojęzyczna The University of Chicago Press

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would...

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...

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

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

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

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...

When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the...

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

Until recently, evolution and religion have been considered contending, irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson...

Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through...

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years prior to the publication of Darwin's "Origin...

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

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

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

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

This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering...

While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior in which the matriarch lifted...

David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. This comprehensive...

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

Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs,...

This English-language edition of Walter Bauer's "Worterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments" includes entries for many more words...

"The Greek magical papyri" is a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns, and rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt, dating from the second...

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into...

For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable...

"The Wealth of Nations" was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for...

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would...

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

There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other....

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

Wineburg has become the go-to guy for helping people, both teachers and administrators, think about how to teach kids history. This book...

Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller's "The Serengeti Lion" describes the vast impact of the...

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

Judge Dee presided over his Imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near-mythic figure in China, he distinguished...

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...

"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work "Comment on ecrit l'histoire"; and he declares that its aim...

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights...

In "Believing and Seeing", Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad...

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

"Wow. No one ever told me this " Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics...

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....

For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In "Redesigning...

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...

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

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

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

Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available....

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In this book, Robert Wald provides a pedagogical introduction to the formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. He begins...

Perhaps you've always wondered how public radio gets that smooth, well-crafted sound. Maybe you're thinking about starting a podcast and...

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

Gems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. Given as tokens of love and affection, they also...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A collection of essays on the core values of liberalism which challenges assumptions about liberal theory. Żeby placing it into its original...

Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter,...

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

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an...

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

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

Classic creative writing text now in its tenth edition.

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

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

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name's Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

""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...

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

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare...

Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, "Political Theology" develops the distinctive...

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

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

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

"Discourses on Livy" is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive...