The Constitution of the United States: A Primer for the People

Currie has written a masterful introduction to the Constitution for anyone interested in learning how it works and what it has come to mean. Currie first provides a concise overview of the document's individual articles and amendments and then looks more closely at each of the three branches of the federal government, showing both how the federal and state governments interact and how citizens are protected from governmental abuse.

History

David P.Currie

Americas

Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)

This concise volume is at once an introduction to "Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" and an analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with Kant's text, Ewing's commentary systematically examines the Critique chapter by chapter. It offers guidance to new students of Kant and discussion to advanced scholars.

Short Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Midway Reprint)

Politics & Social Sciences

A.C. Ewing

Philosophy

FINE, A.: THE SHAKY GAME. EINSTEIN REALISM AND THE QUANTUM THEORY [PAPERBACK]. CHICAGO, IL, 1986, xi 186 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations)

Science & Math

Fine, Arthur

Physics

Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe

Between the two world wars, middle-class America experienced a "marriage crisis" that filled the pages of the popular press. Divorce rates were rising, birthrates falling, and women were entering the increasingly industrialized and urbanized workforce in larger numbers than ever before, while Victorian morals and manners began to break down in the wake of the first sexual revolution.Vivien Green Fryd argues that this crisis played a crucial role in the lives and works of two of America's most familiar and beloved artists, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) and Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Combining biographical study of their marriages with formal and iconographical analysis of their works, Fryd shows how both artists expressed the pleasures and perils of their relationships in their paintings. Hopper's many representations of Victorian homes in sunny, tranquil landscapes, for instance, take on new meanings when viewed in the context of the artist's own tumultuous marriage with Jo and the widespread middle-class fears that the new urban, multidwelling homes would contribute to the breakdown of the family. Fryd also persuasively interprets the many paintings of skulls and crosses that O'Keeffe produced in New Mexico as embodying themes of death and rebirth in response to her husband Alfred Stieglitz's long-term affair with Dorothy Norman.Art and the Crisis of Marriage provides both a penetrating reappraisal of the interconnections between Georgia O'Keeffe's and Edward Hopper's lives and works, as well as a vivid portrait of how new understandings of family, gender, and sexuality transformed American society between the wars in ways that continue to shape it today.

Vivien Green Fryd

Biographies & Memoirs

The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis

Michael J. Gerhardt

Constitutional Law

The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks. For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions. All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.

Aeschylus II: 4 Tragedies- The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, 7 Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound (Complete Greek Tragedies)

Literature & Fiction

ÆSchylus

Dramas & Plays

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies. First published in the 1930s and 40s, these essays continue to illuminate the problems faced by developing and formerly socialist countries.F. A. Hayek, recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, taught at the University of Chicago, the University of London, and the University of Freiburg. Among his other works published by the University of Chicago Press is The Road to Serfdom, now available in a special fiftieth anniversary edition.

Individualism and Economic Order (Midway reprint)

Friedrich August Von Hayek

First published in 1968, The Battered Child quickly became a landmark work. Our awareness of child abuse today is due in no small part to the remarkable impact of its first and subsequent editions. The new edition of this classic text continues the legacy. While updating and significantly adding to previous editions, the fifth edition retains the multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach that initially set the work apart. This new edition contains chapters from professionals in such diverse fields as pediatrics, psychiatry, legal studies, and social work that reflect the past decade's extraordinary advances in research and techniques. Twenty of the book's 30 chapters are entirely new, while the remaining material has been extensively revised. Part I provides a historical overview of child abuse and neglect as well as background material on the cultural, psychiatric, social, economic, and legal contexts of child maltreatment. Part II discusses the processes of assessing cases of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and neglect from the unique perspectives of all the professionals involved, including teachers, pediatricians, and social workers. Part III describes intervention and treatment, focusing on legal issues, investigative procedures, and therapeutic processes, while Part IV addresses prevention and policy issues. Previous editions of The Battered Child have earned the labels of "a classic" and a "Bible." With its up-to-date information, unequaled scope, and contributions from experts on every aspect of child abuse, the fifth edition of this cornerstone text is even more essential to the field than its predecessors. "Comprehensive and up-to-date."â€”David Cottrell, British Journal of Psychiatry "A valuable contribution to the field of abuse and neglect"â€”Prasanna Nair, Journal of the American Medical Association

The Battered Child

Ray Helfer

Social Sciences

Excellent Condition, almost like new.

Crisis of the House Divided (Phoenix Paperback Series)

Harry Jaffa

Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics.

ROBIN W. & FRANK REYNOLDS (eds.) LOVIN

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