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In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped żeby tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les poques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the...

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many...

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey...

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place...

Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department...

"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others...

With a new Foreword by Jeffrey Frank The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical....

In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made aby composers to the constraints...

One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War...

Examines the relationship between individual liberty and government authority, and argues that granting government control of the economy...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting...

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive...

"Human Capital" is Becker's study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment....

In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology--fruitfully...

Famed in story as "the great leviathans" sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest...

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised aby the finest military...

"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of...

The Abbot of a Taoist Monastery is dead after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge...

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...

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field...

Of the world\'s dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable...

We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in...

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

Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a...

Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking...

A handbook of mammals that gathers the most up-to-date knowledge of how they are classified and related.

Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior....

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted...

"The authors restore metaphor to our lives żeby showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as...

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene...

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study$238 That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History,...

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography,...

Notes and Methods presents facsimile reproductions of a wide array of af Klint's early notebooks accompanied by the first English translation...

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

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

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary...

In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Newton and championed...

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism...

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

Discussing all types of wolf in great detail, and with extensive illustrations, this work is an essential guide to wolf ecology, behaviour,...

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,...

Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre- Darwinian evolutionary...

It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in AD 699: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful...

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible...

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes...

Jorge Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert...

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

The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced żeby journalists passionately committed to writing the truth...

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography...

"How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as ""man's best friend"", but what actually drives the things they...

Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable...

This first real biography reveals the deliberate artist behind the image of the secretive nanny and claims a space for Maier as one of the...

With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure...

One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics....

Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social...

David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants...

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki,...

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...

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts - poems, journals, essays, and letters - as well as all his published works,...

Anthony C. Yu's celebrated translation of "The Journey to the West" reinvigorated one of Chinese literature's most beloved classics for...

The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean...

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots...

My verse resembles the bread of Egypt - night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the...

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then...

The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson and of Kenneth Clark gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan,...

"The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor....

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our...

"There are books--few and far between--which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges...

Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life...

Our nation began with the simple phrase "We the People." But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or in 1968, and is there...

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

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...

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

"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."--E. H. Gombrich, "New York Review of Books"...

In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth...

Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right...

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...

Practically all of modern physics deals with fields--functions of space (or spacetime) that give the value of a certain quantity, such as...

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

A state-of-the art analysis of conservation as practiced aby zoos and aquariums worldwide today.

The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up...

Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously...

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics...

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English,...

The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands,...

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged....

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and...

From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories,...

From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting...

Ingmar Bergman, creator of such films as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander turns his perceptive filmmaker's...

Zookeepers are responsible for the care and welfare of animals in zoos and aquariums and also serve as public ambassadors for the animals....

One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores...

Monkey see, monkey do--or does he$1170 Can the behavior of non-human primates--their sociality, their intelligence, their communication--really...

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

Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's "Plastik"...

In presenting stories of men's intimacies with men during the 19th century--in a world before the words "gay" and "straight" referred to...

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

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...

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

"The City and Man" consists of provocative essays aby the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," and Thucydides'...

The University of Chicago Press doesn't generally publish new American fiction. But last winter we started hearing from people we trusted...

A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although...

While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy...

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus" contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real...

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came...

This novel portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Using the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded...

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for "The Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now, and his biweekly essays on great movies...

From Michael Pollan to locavores, from Whole Foods to farmers' markets nationwide, cooks and foodies today are paying more attention than...

Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be...

Humanity is aby many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million...

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers...

Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment...

Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's...

Are we deranged$782 The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our...

Paul Klee consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators, including such illustrious figures...

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