University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1
The Classical Age of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle...
The Venture of Islam, Volume 2
The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle...
Newsprint Metropolis
City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women’s...
The Enigma of Diversity
The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That’s a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era—but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text.
"Strauss's The Argument and the Action...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1996
Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus...
The Phoenix
An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? How much of its story...
The World Is Always Coming to an End
Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out....
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2019
In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes,...
The Recombinant University
Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi’s The Recombinant University draws us deeply into the academic community in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the technology was developed...
Vivian Maier
A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American...
The Open Door
One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. “May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William...
by Reginald Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
From Ritual
A slow parade of old west enthusiasts,
camp song and hymn, came in along the winding
way where rural declined to suburban, slow
riders and wagoners passing a cow staked
to graze, some penned cattle looking vacantly
up—not in vacant lots the ancient icons
of wealth they had...
Attorney for the Damned
Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as his penchant for representing infamous and...