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The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
2014 || Paperback || Jean-Jacques Rousseau || The University of Chicago Press
Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This book brings together fresh translations of three of Rousseau's works.
The Craft of Research / 4th edition
2016 || Paperback || Wayne C. Booth || The University of Chicago Press
With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from first-year undergraduatesĀ to advanced graduate studentsĀ to research reporters in business and government--learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sourc...
Theory and Reality
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
2021 || Paperback || Peter Godfrey-Smith || The University of Chicago Press
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, a...
Imagining Religion
From Babylon to Jonestown
1988 || Paperback || Jonathan Z. Smith || The University of Chicago Press
With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of ...
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Tibetan Buddhism and the West Click to enlarge Prisoners of Shangri-La
2018 || Paperback || Donald S. Lopez Jr || The University of Chicago Press
To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion.
He examines, among much else, the politics of the term "Lamaism," a pej...
The Craft of Research / 5th edition
2024 || Paperback || Wayne C. Booth e.a. || The University of Chicago Press
A thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from high-school students and first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to researchers in business and government. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, ...
The Politics of Resentment / 1st edition
Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
2016 || Paperback || Katherine Cramer || The University of Chicago Press
Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those...
Tricks of the Trade / 1st edition
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
1998 || Paperback || Howard S. Becker || The University of Chicago Press
Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. The advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to ...
Thinking About History
2017 || Paperback || Sarah Maza || The University of Chicago Press
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view t...
Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
2005 || Paperback || Donald S. Lopez Jr. || The University of Chicago Press
Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.