Discusses applied aspects of monetary policy, with practical research on the timing, magnitude, and channels of central bank…

Produkt Social Order of the Slum - Suttles, Gerald D. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago…

This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and…

Analyzing the growth of civil rights, this text examines the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada and India…

This introduction to the philosophy of technology discusses its sources and uses. Tracing the changing meaning of…

Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. This book explains how disabled people are…

Can governments do anything right? This work argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do a great…

Providing an innovative and accessible perspective on how civil rights legislation affects the lives of ordinary Americans,…

This anthology collects descriptions, poems, narratives, satires and essays written in and about the British West Indies…

Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis…

In 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little…

Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the…

Examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke and the followers of Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke during the…

American high schools have never been under more pressure to reform: student populations are more diverse than ever,…

This text investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among 20th-century French intellectuals, demonstrates…

Examines public opinion as a form of social control in which individuals, almost instinctively sensing the opinions of those…

"[This book] proposes new foundations for the Bayesian principle of rational action, and goes on to develop a new logic of…

This history of legal language slices through the polysyllabic thicket of legalese. The text shows to what extent legalese…

Campaigns to win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are now longer, more complex, and more confusing to…

Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works of some prominent writers on the art of growing older. In this…

This volume of lectures was first given as a course in 1959 under the title "Plato's Political Philosophy". These lectures,…

Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a way out of…

Among the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the…

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us…

This work aims to disprove the idea that the United States has been on a steady march toward the end of racial…

Produkt Culture and Practical Reason - Sahlins, Marshall zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago…

Vives advocated education for all women, regardless of social class and ability. From childhood through adolescence to…

The Muslim world represented an alien and foreign phenomenon for the USA in its early years as a republic (1785-1815). This…

In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.…

A comprehensive, chronological survey of the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks through the…

In this sweeping history of American democracy, Robert Wiebe traces the origins and development of democratic ruling in the…

Attempting to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which the religious diversity of the 20th century can be…

A study of Hollywood gangster films. This book examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual…

This study in the sociology of science explores the way scientists conduct, and draw conclusions from, their experiments.…

In this work, originally published in 1600, the author creates a conversation among seven Venetain noblewomen. The dialogue…

This volume is the first English translation of 129 of Coignard's highly autobiographical poems, giving a startlingly…

Based on research, this book focuses on the wartime powers presidents wield at home. It shows that congress is more likely…

In this application of game theory to political phenomena, Cohen focuses on Chile and Brazil. He explores why democratic…

Shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential…

Taking a longer historical and broader geographical perspective, this book contends that sorcery is best understood as an…

Historians have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with fresh forms of presentation.…

This text draws on work in political science, economics, cognitive science and psychology to offer an innovative theory of…

Produkt Language and Species - Bickerton, Derek zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago Press.…

This work presents analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. It reconsiders how knowledge actually…

Produkt Karl Marx on Society and Social Change - Marx, Karl zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of…

Offers a social history of Chinese paleoanthropology and a cultural - and at times comparative - history of assumptions and…

This work argues that a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with…

American spirituality - meaning astrology, yoga, and the huge number of other alternative strains of religion pursued by…