University Of Chicago Press imprint: 2653 books
The Fama Portfolio
Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innovative contributions.
Published soon after...
Everyday Mathematics for Parents
What You Need to Know to Help Your Child Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The Everyday Mathematics (EM) program was developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and is now used in more than 185,000 classrooms by almost three million students. Its research-based learning delivers the kinds of results that all school districts aspire to. Yet despite...
City Creatures
Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
We usually think of cities as the domain of humans—but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but might be surprised to learn about all the leafhoppers and water bears,...
Slaughterhouse
Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
From the minute it opened—on Christmas Day in 1865—it was Chicago’s must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look...
Socialism and War
Essays, Documents, Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Throughout the twentieth century socialism and war were intimately connected. The unprecedented upheavals wrought by the two world wars and the Great Depression provided both opportunity and impetus for a variety of socialist experiments. This volume in The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek documents...
The Art of Backscratching in Chicago
Driving with Ed McElroy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
“Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to Ed McElroy: an old-school, behind-the-scenes backscratcher who has driven the rich, powerful, and...
by Brooke Borel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
“A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation ‘funded a study on Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole.’ That is incorrect. The event took place during off-duty hours without NSF permission and did not involve taxpayer funds.”
Corrections such as this...
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition
A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself. The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition, is an extraordinarily...
Thirty Years of Phoenix Poets, 1983 to 2012
An E-Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
For thirty years now the Phoenix Poets series has been publishing the best poets working in English, from young poets publishing their first books to renowned masters at the peak of storied careers. This sample presents some of the best poets and poems from those three decades—it’s sure to whet your appetite and get you coming back for more!
Dirty Waters
Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties—but nothing could...
Slim's Table
Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who congregate at "Slim's Table." Praised...
Maxwell Street
Writing and Thinking Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods,...
The Sensory Order
An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Sensory Order, first published in 1952, sets forth F. A. Hayek's classic theory of mind in which he describes the mental mechanism that classifies perceptions that cannot be accounted for by physical laws. Hayek's substantial contribution to theoretical psychology has been addressed in the work...
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity...