University of Chicago Press
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700) Volume 2
$29.00 Add to cartThe line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the “iron curtain” of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences comb… [more below]
- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #2
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: July 15 1977
- ISBN10: 0226653730
- Language: English
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Iphigenia among the Taurians
$12.00 Add to cartI am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review
My father killed me- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 10 2014
- ISBN10: 022620362X
- Language: English
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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
$31.67 Add to cart“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 no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it … [more below]
- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 022614593X
- Language: English
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
$31.00 Add to cartBased on Michel Foucault’s 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collé‘’e de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited seq… [more below]
- Author: Burchell, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 09 1991
- ISBN10: 0226080455
- Language: English
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A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic
$26.00 Add to cartThis book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic’s natural history-sky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insects-for those who will experience the Arct… [more below]
- Author: Pielou, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0226668142
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 5: Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (since 1700)
$27.00 Add to cartJaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in i… [more below]
- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #5
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: October 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0226653803
- Language: English
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The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
$23.00 Add to cartWhen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that… [more below]
- Author: Peters, John Durham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 15 2016
- ISBN10: 022642135X
- Language: English
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How Animals Grieve
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limi… [more below]
- Author: King, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2014
- ISBN10: 022615520X
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$35.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 022673059X
- Language: English
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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
$20.00 Add to cartA series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists’ ongoing quest to understand the quantum world.
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly- Author: Kaiser, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022681999X
- Language: English
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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to “incite, organize, promote, and encourage” antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants includ
- Author: Schultz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022676074X
- Language: English
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The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time
$49.00 Add to cartThe landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert … [more below]
- Author: Grande, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0226922960
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) Volume 4
$29.00 Add to cartThis penultimate volume in Pelikan’s acclaimed history of Christian doctrine–winner with Volume 3 of the Medieval Academy’s prestigious Haskins Medal–encompasses the Reformation and the developments… [more below]
- Series: Christian Tradition; A History of the Development of Doctrin (Paperback)
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: December 15 1985
- ISBN10: 0226653773
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00 Add to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 3: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300) Volume 3
$27.00 Add to cart“A magnificent history of doctrine.”–New York Review of Books
“In this volume Jaroslav Pelikan continues the splendid work he has done thus far in his projected five-volume history of the development- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #3
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: August 15 1980
- ISBN10: 0226653757
- Language: English
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
$36.67 Add to cartWas it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of … [more below]
- Author: Clottes, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 022626663X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Roses
$33.25 Add to cartOnce upon a time-before the 1860s-people loved old roses like “Pearl of Gold,” “Marchionesse of Lorne,” or “Autumn Damask.” Then along came the hybrid tea roses, which were easier to arrange, more dra… [more below]
- Author: Christopher, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0226105962
- Language: English
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Undertones of War
$17.00 Add to cart“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I r… [more below]
- Author: Blunden, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226061760
- Language: English
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A Little Queer Natural History
$16.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature.
From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mu- Author: Davis, Josh L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837033
- Language: English
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartHas American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a hist… [more below]
- Author: Howell, William G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2020
- ISBN10: 022676317X
- Language: English
