The University of Chicago Press - Böcker

"L� 9vi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . ["The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet anoth...

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A detailed, informed biography of Edouard Manet, this study attempts to expose the character of an artist who maintained a sharply-defined duality between his public and private personas. Weaving his art, life and history into a smooth tapestry, t...

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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg. Emily DickinsonAnd what a shame, as while birds are stunning in their plumage, the variety and beauty of the vessels from which they hatch are beguiling. The egg has been called nature s per...

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Discusses various styles and characteristics of Italian Renaissance architecture and examines the historical and aesthetic significance of selected buildings.

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The previous editions of this work were praised as lucid and insightful introductions to a complicated subject. This third edition incorporates major additions to update the survey while retaining its clarity. Selected from the second edition are ...

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List of FiguresList of TablesAbbreviations1: Introduction2: A Model of Balance-of-Payments Policy3: Income Distribution, Wage Rigidity, and Balance-of-Payments Policy4: Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and Capital Mobility5: Inflation and Exchange ...

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Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of ...

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"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heideggereach dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are e...

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"Carnival "is an animated collection of works from every stage of Isak Dinesen's career. Many were written during her most creative years but set aside; others she wrote "just for entertainment." The collection includes "S...

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Author's Note Sources and Acknowledgements Translator's Acknowledgements 1: Marriage in Early Medieval Society 2: What do we Know about Love in Twelfth-Century France? 3: The Matron and the Mismarried Woman 4: On Courtly Love 5: Le Roman de la Ros...

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The author argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and feudalism - both bastions of masculinity - as he presents his interpretation of women, what they represented and what they were in the Middle Ages.

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This account of 12th-century women is based on the genre that commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died and the role they came to play in the history of their lineage. From these genealogical works a picture emerges of the lives these wo...

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Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the "Annee Sociologique" in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides...

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From Ivy: Butterflies and moths are among the most studied creatures in nature. Caterpillars, the juvenile stage, are just as diverse and alluring--and deserve to be admired and observed just as closely. Now, with The Book of Caterpillars, they ca...

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This work reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects which are never exchanged despite the value they possess. The author argues that traditional theories of gift-giving are flawed because they consider only ...

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Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence--from letters, diaries, and other intimate family records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--Philip Greven explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were...

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For the past ninety years the "Times Literary Supplement "has scrutinized, dissected, applauded, and occasionally disparaged the work of the twentieth century's leading writers. It has taken a major role in the making--and breaking-...

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"If Catholic and Protestant ethicians were asked to name a single theologian who was qualified to write a comprehensive overview of the historical divergences of Catholic and Protestant positions on ethical questions, the bases for those dive...

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In the England of 1500 maps were rare objects, little used or understood. By 1600 they had become a familiar part of everyday life, created and used for practical purposes, woven into tapestries, illustrating bibles, and even printed on playing ca...

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F. A. Hayek made many valuable contributions to the field of economics as well as to the disciplines of philosophy and politics. This volume represents the second of Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. ...

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Incisive, straightforward, and eloquent, this third and concluding volume of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive assessment of the basic political principles which order and sustain free societies contains the clearest and most uncompromising exposition o...

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Includes seven of F.A. Hayek's articles from the 1920s that were written largely in reaction to the work of Irving Fisher and W.C.Mitchell. The articles here attack the idea that price stabilization was consistent with the stabilization of foreign...

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To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter and filmmaker Noel Coward was the very personification of wit, glamour and elegance. This biography was written with unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward fami...

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These essays explore the relationships between objectivity and masculinity, between psychology and political theory, and between family and state. In pursuing these critical explorations, the contributors--liberal, Marxist, socialist, and radical ...

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This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, ...

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""The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of "Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to sho...

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This novel explores the way people - husbands, wives, parents, children, lovers - use and abuse each other. Under the maintained social conventions of the wealthy Warner family lie more primitive impulses and desires. We see how each character mak...

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In the early 19th century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832 the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissect...

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This first volume opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. Daphne Manners, daughter of the province governor, is running at night through the Mayapore gardens, away from her Indian lover, who will ...

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