Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's popular "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the...
Michelangelo's Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg's selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited aby his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
McCawley supplements his earlier book--which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic--with new material on the logic of...
Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of...
One of the most respected culinary journalists presents the 20 essential cooking techniques he considers crucial to improving anyone's cooking - whether intermediate cook, committed hobbyist,...
In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and Le Monde. During his...
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations żeby the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century...
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...
From lighting the menorah on Chanukah to standing under the chuppah at a wedding, every Jewish ritual reflects a time-honoured practice passed down for generations. With gilded edges and a...
The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many...
It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature....
In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion--the...
The "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed...
In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the kanon reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the...
Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and as a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been defended and applauded as the first scientific treatment of politics as...
In this third volume of 'Dance to the Music of Time, ' we again meet Widmerpool, doggedly rising in rank; Jenkins, shifted from one dismal army post to another; Stringham, heroically...
In this climactic volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral,...
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed aby Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of...
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed aby "Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch...
How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end?...
In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the...