The colorful splendor of flora has been a perennial a source of human interest and inspiration, (if you’re in Chicago just take a look out
Caitlin Zaloom’s most recent book, Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London, has factored into several articles this week about the
Evelyn Bloch-Dano’s Madame Proust: A Biography, delivers one of the most richly detailed biographical accounts of Marcel Proust’s mother to date. As Bloch-Dano shows, Madame
Dario Maestripieri’s Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World was recently featured on the Freakonomics blog hosted at the New York
Fire is being beaten in southern California. The wind shifts, more firefighters and equipment are deployed, and the wildfires—after burning half a million acres and
Now available in paperback— The Bourgeois Virtues is a magnum opus offering a radical view: capitalism is good for us. Deirdre McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and
The media bombards us with images from Iraq on a daily basis, but as the New Yorker‘s George Packer notes in his blog Interesting Times,
Now Available in Paperback—In Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University William Clark argues that the research university—which originated in German Protestant lands
Now available in paperback— Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former president of France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, here takes aim at what he sees as the most troubling aspect of
Now available in paperback— Arguably the most influential document in the history of American urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward