University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
The Dead Ladies Project
Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands...
The Ark and Beyond
The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gathering a diverse, multi-institutional collection of...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides’s Medea has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination,...
Smart Casual
The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters with elegant accents. The stuffy attitude and often scant portions were the punchlines of sitcom jokes—it was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger or a taco in his...
Building for the Arts
The Strategic Design of Cultural Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers for the visual and performing arts. Among the projects...
A City for Children
Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration...
Friends Disappear
The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School, and what strikes her immediately—aside from the...
by Charles Keil
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles—success,...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered his...
The Democratic Surround
Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean...
Spiral Jetta Summer
Swimming in the Great Salt Lake
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her completed journey took her through...
by Leonard B. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist. It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between...
by Sara Suleri Goodyear
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five...
by Leszek Kolakowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1997
Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English.
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