Búsqueda de Editorial : University of Chicago Press

14 resultados

Búsqueda avanzada
University of Chicago Press Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
    Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
    Samuelson, Scott
    A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the vita beata—the good life. Philosopher Scott Samuelson offers a thinker’s tour of the Eternal City, rooting ideas from this phil...

    $367.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Bridge on the Drina, The
    Bridge on the Drina, The
    Andric, Ivo
    The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. "No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman hist...

    $289.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Aeneid, The
    Aeneid, The
    Virgil
    This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry's life: a complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius, rendering Virgil's formal, metrical lines i...

    $375.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Subversive Simone Weil, The
    Subversive Simone Weil, The
    Zaretsky, Robert
    Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycee students and organized union workers, fought alongside anarchists during the Spanish Civil War and labored...

    $366.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Pocket Stoic, The
    Pocket Stoic, The
    Sellars, John
    To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very different and distant time: Stoicism. Today, more than 100,000 people are members of online communities for modern Stoics, and there are annual conferences, meet-ups, and workshops for...

    $209.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Vivian Maier
    Vivian Maier
    Bannos, Pamela
    Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century American street photography. Not long after, the news broke that Maier had recently d...

    $347.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Pocket Epicurean, The
    Pocket Epicurean, The
    Sellars, John
    A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus came to his own conclusion: all we really want in life is pleasure. Though today we tend to associate the word "Epicurean" with indulgence in the form o...

    $230.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife
    Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and...
    Bannos, Pamela

    $687.00 MXN

    Comprar
    En stock
  • Book of Minds, The
    Book of Minds, The
    Ball, Philip
    Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them (including in plants, aliens, and God), Philip Ball pulls the pieces together to explore what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe. In so doing, he offer...

    $449.00 MXN

    No disponible
  • Modern Myths, The
    Modern Myths, The
    Ball, Philip
    With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales.Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time-fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by ...

    $414.00 MXN

    No disponible
  • Jellyfish
    Jellyfish
    Gershwin, Lisa-Ann

    $833.00 MXN

    No disponible
  • Complete Works, The
    Complete Works, The
    Epictetus

    $347.00 MXN

    No disponible
  • Love and Saint Augustine
    Love and Saint Augustine
    Arendt, Hannah / Vecchiarelli Scott, Joanna (editor) / Chelius Stark, Judith (editor)
    Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New Yor...

    $347.00 MXN

    No disponible
  • Rimbaud Complete Works, Selected Letters: Bilingual Edition
    Rimbaud Complete Works, Selected Letters:...
    Rimbaud, Arthur
    The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent...

    $366.00 MXN

    No disponible