Joan Schwartz
Joan Schwartz is a graduate of Rutgers University and received an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She has worked as an editor for the University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, Macmillan Publishing Company, and The Free Press. ... [... more]
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Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative ...
 the shape of twentyfirst century thinking: Professor Turnbull's particular speciality is the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. This is a controversial field, since some argue that science (Western techno-Science) is objective truth itself and therefore [... more]
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Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
more racism whats next, white ppl come from a differ planet: This is just another sad attempt to put Euro-asia ahead of Africa. The reason why there are not a lot of artifacts which would show that mesopotamia is older than Eypt is the same reason why a [... more]
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BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging ...
Buy a better book: This is an annoying book. The author of this book claims that she wrote it for "computer people" whom she goes on to define as just about anyone who has visited the computer aisle in a bookstore. I was briefly employed as a [... more]
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and ...
Rosenthal tells a fantastic story in text book fashion: Rosenthal's "The Honest Courtesan" tells the story of Veronica Franco, a 1500's courtesan (a high society prostitute) and poet. Franco's life is somewhat represented in the current movie & [... more]
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Young Men and Fire
From Amazon.com: On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day [... more]
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The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the ...
From Amazon.com: Intellectuals, virtually by definition, are expected to think for themselves. But the spectacle of intellectuals subordinating their independence of mind to dogmatic ideologies, whether left or right, is dismayingly common in the 20th [... more]
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Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of ...
Much more than a catalog: Much more than a catalog This book is not just a catalog of the show now at San Francisco's MOMA. It is a rich source that chronicles the evolution of the Chicago Institute of Design (ID) and its photography program. With 6 [... more]
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Notes on Quantum Mechanics
porn!: this book was so full of bad words and sexual acts, it made my eyes water! not for younger readers. this author has sunk to a new low. The previous reviewer got it wrong !: I don't know which book the previous reviewer was referring to. This is a [... more]
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Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung
Old-fashioned but enjoyable: I just picked up a beautiful old copy of this at Moe's books in Berkeley. It dates from the early fifties. I don't know if this Chicago edition is simply a reprint, but I am finding it to be a throroughly well-written and [... more]
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Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and ...
a waste of paper.: This book has the thinnest analysis I have ever seen. Although Lassner makes several promising overtures to explain the relation of Jewish and Medieval Muslim texts, he gets bogged down in presenting the same material over and over [... more]
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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, ...
total waste of time: This book was a total waste of time. Full of high-blown, flowery prose, lofty hypotheses, and absolute nonsense. Sometimes a Ph.D thesis--which this apparently was before the University of Chicago Press was convinced to publish it-- [... more]
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