University Of Chicago Press imprint: 2653 books
Segregation
A Global History of Divided Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow—two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us in this magisterial history, segregation is everywhere,...
by Albert Borgmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of society's ills to every sphere of contemporary...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus
My father killed me
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work “personal, necessary, and important,” while Publishers Weekly says...
At Lady Molly's
Book 4 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
The Valley of Bones
Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Highly acclaimed as translators of Greek and Sanskrit classics, respectively, David Grene and Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty here present a complete modern translation of the three plays comprising Aeschylus' Orestia and, with the assistance of director Nicholas Rudall, an abridged stage adaptation. This...
by James C. Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This commentary offers a rich introduction and useful guide to the seven surviving plays attributed to Aeschylus. Though it may profitably be used with any translation of Aeschylus, the commentary is based on the acclaimed Chicago translations, The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and...
The Acceptance World
Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London . Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
Temporary Kings
Book 11 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
The Kindly Ones
Book 6 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
The Military Philosophers
Book 9 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
The Soldier's Art
Book 8 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
A Buyer's Market
Book 2 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...
Books Do Furnish a Room
Book 10 of A Dance to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with...