University of Chicago Press
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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft
$26.00 Add to cartMore than 250,000 copies sold
A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway’s best-selling classic is the mos- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Burroway, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 022661669X
- Language: English
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
$21.00 Add to cartHardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its center. But how did the belief that one could own an idea come about? And how did that belief chan
- Author: Rosen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0226726347
- Language: English
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in … [more below]
- Author: MacLean, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 022647206X
- Language: English
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Solvable: How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again
$19.00 Add to cartA compelling and pragmatic argument: Solutions to yesterday’s environmental problems reveal today’s path forward.
We solved planet-threatening problems before, Susan Solomon argues, and we can do it- Author: Solomon, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226845427
- Language: English
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Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test
$39.00 Read moreExplore the scientific crescendo of the Manhattan Project through newly contextualized and never-before-seen photographs from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s legacy collections–some just declassifie
- Author: Seyl, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 15 2026
- ISBN10: 022684840X
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$24.00 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of 2025
An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0226852598
- Language: English
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
$30.00 Read moreAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprisin… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847411
- Language: English
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The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
$30.00 Read moreFrom the essential chronicler of the world economy, a portrait of the Great Powers in transition.
The world’s two great economic powers are on opposite trajectories. In the United States, decades of- Author: Milanovic, Branko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0226846415
- Language: English
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Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology
$26.00 Add to cartQuantum computers, quantum cryptography, and even quantum AI–a century after the discovery of an unexpected physical world, researchers are putting this puzzling science to work in dazzling new ways.… [more below]
- Author: Davies, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0226849325
- Language: English
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Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone
$60.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated volume accompanying the first retrospective of Black and Indigenous American sculptor Edmonia Lewis.
Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) broke international, racial, and gender barriers as- Author: Richmond-Moll, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847241
- Language: English
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Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy
$25.00 Read moreA surprising look at the big business of owning small businesses and what America’s franchise economy means for its workers.
Walk into a McDonald’s anywhere in the United States, and it will be identi
- Author: Callaci, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0226828700
- Language: English
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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
$22.50 Read moreThe incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.
Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why–for better or (sometimes) worse- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0226834247
- Language: English
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Against Money
$30.00 Read moreA powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card- Author: Mason, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0226842533
- Language: English
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Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
$27.00 Read moreA remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick.
By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year f- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Quam, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0226828107
- Language: English
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Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America
$27.50 Add to cartSons of Britches. The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee. These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,
Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain- Author: Das, Joanna Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828409
- Language: English
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School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife
$25.00 Add to cartWhy school yearbooks–as frivolous and cringey as they are–are far more than just objects of nostalgia.
We’re all familiar with the embarrassment that washes over us when recalling our high school- Author: Eichhorn, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 022680951X
- Language: English
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Sweet Repetition
$18.00 Add to cartPoetry that centers its movement on repetition–orbiting, unwinding, and returning.
Integrating Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and the works of other poets, this collec- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Cruz, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843769
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor (an Inside Narrative)
$27.50 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of Billy Budd featuring woodcuts by celebrated artist Barry Moser.
This edition of Billy Budd, Sailor presents Herman Melville’s iconic tale of the high seas alongside illustra- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842487
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
$18.00 Add to cartAn invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini.
By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226845524
- Language: English
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New York Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartAn American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and explosive parts of the Middle East.
In an inve- Author: Balakian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843742
- Language: English
