books by University Of Chicago Press     books:       Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck20 reviews Bill Veeck, Ed Linn University Of Chicago Press, 2001 The coolest owner ever. Bill Veeck was a true maverick before that term got tossed around by crazed hockey moms/ vp wannabee's. Anyway... the story of this man who was known for sending a midget to bat in the majors and, later in life, the disco demolition fiasco in Chicago, was more than those events. He was the kind of guy who "got it" about pro sports. He knew that the fan should come first and that this should be ...             The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character23 reviews Samuel Noah Kramer University of Chicago Press, 1963 Excellent overview of the ancient Sumerians _The Sumerians_ by Samuel Noah Kramer is a very readable overview of the ancient Sumerians, those ancient, non-Semitic peoples who produced the world's "first high civilization" and were the world's first urban culture. This ancient culture spanned the fifth to the second millennium BC though its scientific and literary achievements would have lasting influence throughout the ancient world and ...             A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature40 reviews Walter Bauer University of Chicago Press, 1957 The Best for Serious Studies I have the 2nd edition of Bauer (the BAGD) and this 3rd Edition (the BDAG), and this is just excellent. The definitions help a relatively novice student such as myself to get a much better feel for what words mean than just simple one word definitions which cannot possibly present the accurate sense in most instances. For serious study of Biblical Greek issues, this is a wonderful tool. The ...             Meaning of Shakespeare17 reviews Harold C. Goddard University of Chicago Press, 1951 Best Book on Shakespeare for Novices I don't know much about Shakespeare, but I know great writing when I read it. This book is an absolute pleasure to read (with volume 2). The author has great insight into human nature and brings his insights to his understanding of Shakespeare. The book makes me want to dive into Shakespeare myself! Barbara             After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America20 reviews E. C. Pielou University Of Chicago Press, 1991 Astonishing, dense, far-ranging One of the most far-ranging books I have ever read. The first chapter, on glaciation processes, covers an an enormous amount of ground (no pun intended). This book can give perspective on such issues as climate change and on the ongoing rapid change of plant species in North America. It provided information about glaciation that made me fighting mad about the abuse of glacier images in Al ...             The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 1: The Emergence of the Catholic ...19 reviews Jaroslav Pelikan University Of Chicago Press, 1975 Every Christian needs to read this book If you profess to be a Christian you need to read this book and understand how what you have accepted on faith. The Good News from Jesus was forced through a Hellenic sieve of of Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy; on the Platonic side the essence of the unknowable is stressed, on the Aristotelian side the existential details are laid out in a highly logical fashion. In this book you will ...             Tim and Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White17 reviews Tim Reid, Tom Dreesen, ... University Of Chicago Press, 2008 Amazingly good book!!! I was lucky enough to interview Tim and Tom on my [...] podcast for this incredible read. Truly an impressive story in so many ways, poverty to success, the many many sides of discrimination, the the tremendous contributions Tim and Tom made to society outside of show business. I hope this will become an incredible movie! -Doug Vannier             When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption17 reviews Wesley Adamczyk University Of Chicago Press, 2004 Thank You I am sitting here struggling to find the words to begin to express my love for this book. I have just spent the past twenty-six hours not putting this book down. Now, I don't know if it is the fact that my family had delt with these similar circumstances and moved to the same area of Chicago, but i have never felt so connected/transported to individuals in a book as I did with this one. The ...             The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss78 reviews Claire Nouvian University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Superb book This is my favorite Nature book of all-time. These creatures are so strange, and their lifestyles so out of the ordinary. If someone had gone to another star system and brought back alien life, they would be hard pressed to find something as imaginative and odd as these animals from the deep. Superb photography, well written articles by experts. But more than just writing about her subject, ...             The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual24 reviews University of Chicago Press, 2007 Best in Class MILITARY Manual--Need Civilian Peace SOP The publisher should load the table of contents and nominate this important book for "Inside the Book" digitization. Since the publisher has failed to do that, for now (pending my substantive summative review) I will just list the top level table of contents. Chapter 1. Insurgency & Counterinsurgency Chapter 2. Unity of Effort: Integrating Civilian and Military Activities [This is ...             The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, ...13 reviews Carol Fisher Saller University Of Chicago Press, 2009 It's like finding out your mother smokes! Editors break rules. How liberating! Carol Fisher Saller's "Subversive Copy Editor" confirms what I learned as a scientist: The more you know about a subject, the less dogmatic your opinions. Rules can be broken; editors do make stupid mistakes. Saller brings great common sense and, yes, sharp business acumen to her profession. The book reminds you that if an author--consistently--has styled his ...             Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend14 reviews Paul Feyerabend University Of Chicago Press, 1995 An awesome spiritual odyssee This is a slim volume, barely 200 pages, but it charts an awesome spiritual odyssee. Paul Feyerabend - enfant terrible of late 20th century philosophy - looked ruthlessly in the mirror and painted an unadorned picture of himself. At the end of his life, he painfully recognised that its course had been shaped by absences, rather than by specific events or, for that matter, ideas: absence of ...             The Young Lions13 reviews Irwin Shaw, James Salter University Of Chicago Press, 2000 A true classic of men at war. This is truly one of the great novels dealing with World War Two. Throughout, the novel switches perspectives from that of a German lieutnant to an American private. The story begins shortly before the outbreak of war, and continues until the war's ending. Irwin Shaw seems to capture the flavor of both the American and German armies, and what the attitudes and perspectives of their soldiers ...             The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Volume 112 reviews University Of Chicago Press, 1992 Important for the Arts of Evocation Much has already been said about this phenomenal collection of texts and I would be redundant to merely repeat much of what I find intriguing. However with that said, I have been delving into this phenomenal text since a fellow Evocational Magics practitioner turned me onto it. There's quite a bit of useful information for those who are practitioners of the arts of Summoning Spirits via ...             In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of A. V (Phoenix Fiction Series)16 reviews Stephen Vizinczey University Of Chicago Press, 1990 In praise of In Praise of I recently ordered the 1965 paperback version of this book, even though a newer version exists. I vaguely remembered the cover of the book I read when I was maybe ten, and I want to read exactly the same one. It was a woman or maybe not, but it was someone's face coming at the camera, all misty around with aquamarine--vegetation? I decided I would recognize it when I saw it. Amazon quoted this ...             An Innocent Millionaire (Phoenix Fiction Series)12 reviews Stephen Vizinczey University Of Chicago Press, 1990 The World of Stephen Vizinczey In difficult times we like to turn to books, especially to novels. But it would be a mistake to think that only light and syrupy stories bring us relief. On the contrary, we need the company of authors who, thanks to their perceptiveness and creative vigor, describe the world as it is, without false embellishment. We sense that these writers are able to face the worst of all possible worlds ...             Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers' Engravings and Stories (1965-1973)16 reviews University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Edwards - not Buchanan - wrote this tale While reading this extraordinary and unique book it is obvious that Edwards put the time and effort into this project and Buchanan packaged it. Yet Buchanan seems to want all the credit. She alone is listed as the author, but what did she actually do? She wrote a distant and dry essay - well written no doubt, but what exactly is her relationship to this fascinating object called the Vietnam ...             White Waters and Black12 reviews Gordon MacCreagh University Of Chicago Press, 2001 GREAT BOOK ABOUT AN UNREMARKABLE EXPEDITION Mr MacCreagh has maganed to write an outstanding book based on a rather unsuccessful expedition. It is the tale of an expedition of eight eminent scientist in the Amazon, who were put together not for their ability in the outdoors, but for their scientific knowledge. The author is a helper/manager of the expedition. He manages to describe the expedition from its beginning in the Bolivia ...             The Peloponnesian War16 reviews Thucydides University Of Chicago Press, 1989 a pioneering genius of history and the political science of war It is always difficult and challenging to pick up what is regarded as a classic and read through it in a naive manner, not as a specialist but as an amateur who just wants to learn. There are always surprises. In contrast to the looser Herodotus, his near contemporary, Thucydides sought to record an "objective truth" of the great war between Athens and Sparta, in the 5C BC. He consulted ...             The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy16 reviews Odile Redon, FranCoise Sabban, ... University Of Chicago Press, 1998 Wonderful for a newbie food historian I adore this book. I love the layout for the recipes. The Authors provide the original source, a brief discusion of why they did what they did, and a modern version for the reader to try. Although I didn't always agree with how they interrpted the medieval recipe, it was always a matter of food ratios not scholarship.              search for books 1965-1973, autobiography, character, christian, colleagues, counterinsurgency, creatures, development, emergence, engravings, extraordinary, feyerabend, glaciated, including, innocent, literature, millionaire, negotiate, peloponnesian, publishing, recollections, redemption, relationships, shakespeare, subversive, sumerians, testament, tradition, translation, yourself books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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