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The Blossoming Bookshelf gathers forty-three classic texts into a capacious history of gardening, botany, horticulture, and the cultural imagination of plants. Its range extends from practical manuals on cultivation, soils, orchards, and landscape design to reflective nature writing, botanical inquiry, travel-inflected observation, and accounts of public and domestic gardens. The volume's significance lies in this productive interchange between utility and aesthetics: advice on raising pla...

Look at Me, I Still Exist! is an intimate and honest book in which the author reconstructs the life of his mother, Marina Ramos Santiago (1956-2024), to restore her voice and presence. In these pages, you will discover a complex and deeply human woman: her virtues, her flaws, her fears, and her courage in the face of cancer. You will also accompany the author through the painful process of watching her fade day after day, as he tries to hold her and understand her. This work is an invitati...

Lives: Stories and Thoughts is a captivating collection that explores a spectrum of tales, spanning from the palpable to the ethereal. Its focal point resides in the lives of ordinary individuals residing in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, although one could argue that these narratives could unfold in any corner of Hispanic America. Within these pages, the struggles of poverty and the profound significance of familial ties intricately shape the existence of its inhabitants.Th...

Raúl inmigró desde Puerto Rico a Nueva York durante su niñez, cuando sus padres salieron huyéndole a la situación económica de una isla víctima de podredumbre política. Nunca se imaginó que el mundo cambiaria de tal forma, que cuando intentó regresar a cumplir una promesa, se vio obligado a tomar actos desesperantes en su intento de regresar. Esa lucha por pisar la tierra que lo vio nacer habría de definir más de un destino en un mundo donde todo era tan impredecible que hasta el medio amb...

Essays by economic historians making the case that early factory workers benefited from the Industrial Revolution, despite its hardships and disruptions.The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book.The authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion that under c...

"An invaluable resource. . . . a rich collection . . . particularly recommendable due to Lewis's detailed and knowledgeable commentary." ―History of Economic IdeasA deft selection of unpublished and little-known works by F. A. Hayek that will serve to enliven debates around the changing face of Western liberalismAcross seventeen volumes to date, the University of Chicago Press's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series has anthologiz...

The History of Ancient Greece: 20 Essential Books assembles a capacious library of Greek antiquity, joining epic, inquiry, political narrative, geography, biography, mythography, and modern historical interpretation. Its range extends from the imaginative horizons of heroic legend to the contested evidence of war, civic life, athletic culture, and imperial expansion. Foundational accounts of the Persian and Peloponnesian conflicts stand beside reflections on Alexander's world, ancient cust...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Cassandra of Silver Creek is destined to become the first female Alpha in wolf-shifter history. But the traditionalists have other plans. A female Alpha is a threat they intend to bury before it can take root, so while her father still clings to life, they dispatch a rogue from the Shadowfang pack to seize her and end her rule before it begins.Cassandra is not so easily caught. When the kidnapping fails, the cou...

Viral Vaccines Joseph L. Melnick As with history in general, the history of vaccines needs to be reexamined and updated. My task is to look back to see what has been successful and to look forward to see what remains to be accomplished in the prevention of viral diseases by vaccines. Also, I shall refer to the pertinent material discussed at two recent conferences of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, on virus vaccines under development and their target populations in...

Few men have had the nigh unimaginable privilege and definitely unconscionable weight of duty as those who have occupied the Throne of St. Peter as the Supreme Pontiff and Pastor of the Universal Church; even fewer have exercised that office in so tremendous and saintly a manner as Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, the son of poor peasants who became one of the most formidable occupants of the papal office of all time. Born in 1835 to a village postman and his wife, Giuseppe worked hard to gain a...

A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volumeIn this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek's writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essen...

The Apostle of CharitySt. Vincent de Paul, called the Apostle of Charity, stands as a monument in the life of the Church. He transformed utterly how both the Church and the secular world (copycatting the former) undertook the infrastructure of organized charitable action. Far from doing social work for social work's sake, St. Vincent de Paul sought out the good of souls both temporally and spiritually, as his massive labor and remarkable life attest.Born to a peasant family...