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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare's Freedom

Greenblatt Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226306674, ISBN: HB: 9780226306667, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 10 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes – of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and ver...

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Education

Southern Stalemate Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Bonastia Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226063898, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citize...

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Nature

Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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Literary Criticism

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction

Gardner John

ISBN: PB: 9780226283289, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
218 pp., 20.5x14 cm

The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet J...

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Other

Philosophy

Saints Faith without Borders

Meltzer Francoise, Elsner Jas

ISBN: PB: 9780226519920, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones, 6 colour illus.

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...

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Literary Criticism

Shakespeare Only

Knapp Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226445724, ISBN: HB: 9780226445717, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22x14 cm

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolatrists, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an...

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General

Social Knowledge in the Making

Camic Charles, Gross Neil, Lamont Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226092096, ISBN: HB: 9780226092089, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 4 line illus.

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to "Social Knowledge in the...

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Political Science

Submerged State How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

Mettler Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226521657, ISBN: HB: 9780226521640, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 19 line illus.

"Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even t...

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America

Slaveholders' Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic

Cleve George William

ISBN: PB: 9780226846705, ISBN: HB: 9780226846682, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested polit...

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Fiction

Europe

Stricken Field A Novel

Gellhorn Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226286969, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
328 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...

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