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Are We In Time? And Other Essays on Time and Temporality
The summa of a distinguished philosopher's career, and a full treatment of the temporal in philosophical terms, Are We IN Time?shows us that by...
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Bakhtin: Ethics and Mechanics
The early work of Mikhail Bakhtin is notable for its emphasis on questions in ethics and philosophy. Focusing on these early writings, though also...
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The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz
This debut novel in the acclaimed Luis Montez series introduced a hero unique in detective fiction: a world-weary middle-aged lawyer steeped in the...
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The Banquet in Blitva
Colonel Kristian Barutanski, overlord of the mythical Baltic nation of Blitva, has freed his country from foreign oppression and now governs with an...
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My Chicago
By the end of her first meeting with the late mayor Richard J. Daley, Jane Byrne had been questioned, berated, and told she might, one day, reach the...
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My Gaze Is Turned Inward
Event of the time are a bit like Impressionist paintings ... which combine into a recognizable whole only when observed from a...
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Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
Dorothea Tanning, one of the twentieth-century's most original and provocative painters, delivers a vivid account of a fascinating life lived as...
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A New Word on The Brothers Karamazov
V. S. Pritchett has written of Dostoevsky that he "is still the master [because] he moves forward with us as the sense of our danger...
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Lessons and Legacies VI
In the courtroom and the classroom, in popular media, public policy, and scholarly pursuits, the Holocaust-its origins, its nature, and its...
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The Regrets
As a member of the mid-sixteenth-century literary group La PlÉiade, Joachim du Bellay (1525-1560) sought to elevate his native French to the level...
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Blues for the Buffalo
The sun, the sand, a young beauty named Rachel in a white bikini-there's no better way to recover from the aches and pains of your latest case....
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Ferraro: My Story
In this memoir, Geraldine A. Ferraro reflects on her experience as the first and only woman nominated by a major party to run on the presidential...
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Seven Black Plays
Awarded annually since 1987, the Theodore Ward Prize recognizes the outstanding individual accomplishments of African American playwrights, as well...
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A Land the Size of Binoculars
Igor Klekh emerges as a writer from the crossroads of Europe--Western Ukraine--influenced by the great Russian literary tradition as well as the...
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My Gaze Is Turned Inward
Event of the time are a bit like Impressionist paintings ... which combine into a recognizable whole only when observed from a distance.
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Chicago by L: Touring the Neighborhoods
This guided front-row tour with Geoffrey Baer is a unique, elevated glimpse into history, cultural life and architectural features of the city's...
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The Last Client of Luis Montez
Hard-luck attorney Luis Montez has hit the big-time at last. He's successfully defended Jimmy Esch, the good-for-nothing son of a powerful Denver...
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Chicago by Boat: The River Tour
Host Geoffrey Baer, a Chicago Architecture Foundation docent, weaves Chicago's colorful riverfront history and architecture into a fascinating...
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A Theater of Our Own
In A Theater of Our Own, Richard Christiansen, former chief critic for the Chicago Tribune, draws upon his exclusive interviews, insights, and...
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Poetic Maneuvers
One of the most innovative and respected figures of his literary generation in Europe, Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929- ) has also become a major...
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Thinking of the Sensible, The
In this first English publication of a well-known and widely respected Italian scholar, readers will encounter the preeminent interpreter of the...
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Collected Shorter Poems
John Peck's poems draw on both modernist and traditional resources, quarrying in the large gaps among contemporary readers of poetry. This...
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Here’s the Deal
Here's the Deal is a hard-hitting study of how ambition and greed are leading our cities to disaster. Before there was a Ground Zero in New York...
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Lessons and Legacies IV
In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume...
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