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11 unusual facts about University of Chicago Press


Chicago: City on the Make

The University of Chicago Press issued a new edition of the essay upon its 50th anniversary in 2001, and it remains one of Chicago's most popular local books.

Gordon Jennings Laing

He was managing editor of the Classical Journal from 1905 to 1908, associate editor of Classical Philology after 1905, and general editor of the University of Chicago Press after 1908.

Judith N. Shklar

Several of her essays, including the classic 'The Liberalism of Fear', have been collected in two posthumous volumes from the University of Chicago Press, Political Thought and Political Thinkers, edited by Stanley Hoffmann (1998), and Redeeming American Political Thought.

Rationality and Power

Published by The University of Chicago Press in 1998, it focuses on "the application of critical theory to urban and community development".

Rules of golf

In 2004, the University of Chicago Press published a plain-language translation of this book.

Seagull Books

At present, the University of Chicago Press holds the distribution rights for Seagull Books throughout the world, except India, where it is distributed by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.

The Meaning of Shakespeare

After the book was finished and had been accepted for publication, Dr. Goddard died without having named it; the title was provided by the publisher, the University of Chicago Press.

Tōson Shimazaki

Two Japanese Novelists: Sōseki & Tōson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

University of Chicago Press

It currently publishes 58 titles in a wide range of academic disciplines including the social sciences, the humanities, education, the biological and medical sciences, and the physical sciences.

In 2013, Chicago Journals will be offering e-book editions of each new issue of each journal, for use on e-reader devices such as smartphones, iPad, and Amazon Kindle.

He committed time and resources to lengthening the backlist, becoming known for assuming ambitious scholarly projects, among the largest of which was The Lisle Letters — a vast collection of 16th-century correspondence by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, a wealth of information about every aspect of sixteenth-century life.


Beleganjur

Bakan, Michael B. Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

BiblioVault

Development began in late 2001 under the auspices of the University of Chicago Press, with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Boston and Albany Railroad

O'Gorman, James F., H.H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1987, pages 113-126.

Ernan McMullin

Harvard University philosophy professor Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses McMullin's views on Scientific realism in the book Theory and reality (University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 178, 251, 264), citing McMullin's paper "A Case for Scientific Realism" in the book Scientific Realism, edited by Jarrett Leplin (University of California Press, 1984).

Hortense Spillers

A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 and Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, published by Routledge in 1991.

Jim Leisy

After two years he left University of Chicago Press to become a field representative and field editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, based in Philadelphia.

Map–territory relation

Historian of religions J. Z. Smith wrote a book entitled Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978, University of Chicago Press 1993 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76357-9).

Multiple discovery

Robert K. Merton, On Social Structure and Science, edited and with an introduction by Piotr Sztompka, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970

Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency 1930-1970 is a 1982 book by sociologist Doug McAdam (published by the University of Chicago Press).

Richard Arum

In January 2011 his book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, was published by the University of Chicago Press.