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• Author(s): Ivar Ekeland • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoryTracing the impact of optimization and the ways in which it has influenced the study of mathematics, biology, econ...

• Author(s): Ioanna Laliotou • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe early twentieth century was marked by massive migration of southern Europeans to the United States...

• Author(s): Ivar Ekeland | Thomas Turnbull • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory. They seek to de...

• Author(s): Catherine Hall • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralHow did the English get to be English? In Civilising Subjects, Catherine Hall argues th...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Bernstein • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBrokered Subjects digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troub...

• Author(s): Donald W. Fiske | Richard a. Shweder • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: MethodologyWhat is the nature of the social sciences? What kinds of knowledge can they--and shoul...

• Author(s): Simeon Koole • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901)An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told...

• Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralWe live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are con...

• Author(s): Bryan A. Garner • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: ReferenceThe leading guide to clear writing Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful--all too often, leg...

• Author(s): Danielle Allen • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyFrom a leading political thinker, this book is both an invaluable playbook for meeting ...

• Author(s): Matt Houlbrook • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesIn August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had ...

• Author(s): Katherine J. Cramer • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: American Government - StateSince the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates ...

• Author(s): Ernesto de Martino • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe first English translation of a classic work of twentieth-century anthropolo...

• Author(s): Federico Marcon • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separa...

• Author(s): Sam Wineburg • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HistoriographyLet's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrou...

• Author(s): Colin Koopman • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsWe are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did infor...