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Moral Politics

George Lakoff

• Paperback | Engels | Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive politi... Lees meer

Making a Social Body

Mary Poovey

• Hardcover | Engels
• With much recent work in Victorian studies focused on gender and class differences, the homogenizing features of 19th-century culture have received re... Lees meer

Cruising the Dead River

Fiona Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neigh... Lees meer

Out in Force

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Can the U.S. military integrate gay personnel into its ranks and still accomplish its mission? In 1993, this question became the center of a heated de... Lees meer

Threshold

James Longenbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Poets
• Threshold is an extraordinary first collection that explores the shifting spaces between differing states of human experience. James Longenbach's poem... Lees meer

Morphological Integration

Everett C Olson, Robert L Miller

• Paperback | Engels
• Despite recent advances in genetics, development, anatomy, systematics, and morphometrics, the synthesis of ideas and research agenda put forth in the... Lees meer

Victorian Science in Context

• Hardcover | Engels
• Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all ... Lees meer

Memory and Narrative

James Olney

• Hardcover | Engels | Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, ... Lees meer

Extreme Measures

Brian K McNab

• Paperback | Engels
• Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to surv... Lees meer

Rough Rider in the White House

Sarah Watts

• Hardcover | Engels
• Who was Theodore Roosevelt? Most of us think of him as one of America's greatest presidents, a champion of progressive politics, and a master statesma... Lees meer

Making Spirit Matter

Larry Sommer McGrath

• Paperback | Engels
• The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience hav... Lees meer

The Stoic Idea of the City

Malcolm Schofield

• Paperback | Engels
• The Stoic Idea of the City offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno's Republic . Renowned classical scholar Mal... Lees meer

Mother of Writing

William A Smalley, Chia Koua Vang, Gnia Yee Yang

• Paperback | Engels
• In February of 1971, in the Laotian village of Nam Chia, a forty-one year old farmer named Shong Lue Yang was assassinated by government soldiers. Sho... Lees meer

Rhythm

Vincent Barletta

• Paperback | Engels
• More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a centr... Lees meer

Documentary Expression and Thirties America

William Stott

• Paperback | Engels
• "A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for ... Lees meer

Changing Schools

Arthur Zilversmit

• Paperback | Engels
• Nearly one hundred years ago America's foremost philosopher of education, John Dewey, set in motion the progressive education movement-an effort to en... Lees meer

Early Royko

Mike Royko

• Paperback | Engels
• Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution--in Jimmy Breslin's words, ... Lees meer

Cairo Traffic

Lloyd Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Poets
• This book of poems asks the sphinx to solve a riddle. The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back ... Lees meer

Obsession

Lennard J Davis

• Hardcover | Engels
• We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately i... Lees meer

The Disciplinary Revolution

Philip S Gorski

• Paperback | Engels
• What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolut... Lees meer

City of American Dreams

Margaret Garb

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home... Lees meer

Novelties in the Heavens

Jean Dietz Moss

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lectures in Mathematics (Paperback)
• In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well--one in whi... Lees meer

Restitution

Ward Farnsworth

• Paperback | Engels
• Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from ... Lees meer

Pockets of Crime

Peter K B St Jean

• Paperback | Engels
• Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One po... Lees meer