Literatura obcojęzyczna The University of Chicago Press

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....

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...

From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of the world s...

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

This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late...

"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...

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

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

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often...

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

In his eighty-eight years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role...

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...

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

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...

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

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 this text, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and...

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

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobad trees and thickets, a...

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

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

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

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures...

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

Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this...

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

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...

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

The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert...

Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works - a model that allows him to explain why the media cheered American...

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

Examines the pervasive expectation of continual "innovation" in the business sector.

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

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

Abraham and Torok advocate a form of psychoanalysis that insists on the particularity of any individual's life story, the specificity of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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...

With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea,...

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant to the appreciation...

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

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing...

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

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

"Sensible Ecstasy" investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates...

When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever...

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

A guide to dog behaviors of all kinds

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...

In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations--torture--J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions...

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...

Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs such as Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range...

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...

This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power...

Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

"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...

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

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

Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered...

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...

The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours...

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

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life...

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

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

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

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

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

Owing its inspiration and title to "On the Origin of Species", James W. Valentine's ambitious book synthesizes and applies the vast treasury...

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

How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide...

In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared by...

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

This volume features 63 short stories spanning five decades including "Girls in their Summer Dresses", "Sailor Off the Bremen" and "The...

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

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...

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

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

Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years,...

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

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

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

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

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology - and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history - was widely dismissed...

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

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...

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

Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating...

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

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

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

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...

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying...

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something...

"The Deer and the Tiger" is Schaller's detailed account of the ecology and behavior of Bengal tigers and four species of the hoofed mammals...

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

In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations...

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

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