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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Getting It Published, Fourth Edition: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books
$22.00 Read moreIn this thoroughly updated fourth edition, a trusted editor offers a comprehensive guide to selecting–and working with–a book publisher.
For more than two decades, writers have turned to William Ge- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Germano, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 022684479X
- Language: English
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Antigone
$12.00 Add to cartA stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Antigone taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.
Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press’s Comple- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 022684465X
- Language: English
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Addiction, Inc.: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America’s Forgotten War on Drugs
$30.00 Add to cartHow the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction–until America’s opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of patients.
Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in- Author: Dufton, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 13 2026
- ISBN10: 022675006X
- Language: English
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The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist’s Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of
$32.00 Add to cartThe untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death.
While Ian Stevenson (1918-2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a se- Author: Bering, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 22 2026
- ISBN10: 0226824225
- Language: English
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The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age
$27.50 Add to cartA respected voice on technology shows how seemingly simple ads help dismantle democracy and public discourse.
Whether you’re intentionally shopping or casually browsing social media, something is foll- Author: Turow, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 0226837335
- Language: English
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$20.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 27 2026
- ISBN10: 022684921X
- Language: English
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Joan
$18.00 Add to cartA narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and poetic voice.
Collapsing biography and autobiography, the poetry of Jake Rose’s debu- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Rose, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 26 2026
- ISBN10: 022684823X
- Language: English
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This Is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam
$27.50 Add to cartA personal account by a war historian and adoptee who discovers his biological father was a famous Marine combat photographer in Vietnam.
Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historia- Author: Brigham, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0226846881
- 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 Add to cartExplore 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 Add to cartAs 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 Add to cartFrom 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 Read moreQuantum 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 Add to cartA 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
