University of Chicago Press
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque
$19.00 Add to cartVivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurit… [more below]
- Author: Landon, H. C. Robbins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0226468429
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
$17.00 Add to cartDrawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: January 19 1998
- ISBN10: 0226041247
- Language: English
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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet
$36.42 Add to cartThe compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds- Author: Dry, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816842
- Language: English
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History of the Persian Empire
$33.00 Add to cartOut of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Olmstead, A. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 670
- Publish Date: February 15 1959
- ISBN10: 0226627772
- Language: English
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The Prayers of Kierkegaard
$20.00 Add to cartSoren Kierkegaard’s influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0226470571
- Language: English
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Cite Right, Third Edition: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles–Mla, Apa, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
$30.00 Add to cartCite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Lipson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 022643110X
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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You Were Never in Chicago
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. A
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022610415X
- Language: English
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Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
$30.08 Add to cartOne of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wi… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0226901351
- Language: English
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The Concept of Mind
$30.00 Add to cartThis now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy’s “official theory,” the Cartesians “myth” of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle’s linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography … [more below]
- Author: Ryle, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: December 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0226732967
- Language: English
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Doodling for Academics: A Coloring and Activity Book
$18.00 Add to cartTo an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes…. [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Academic Life
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 21 2017
- ISBN10: 022646704X
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini
$29.00 Add to cartMost people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works–Arabian Nights, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales among … [more below]
- Author: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 22 2015
- ISBN10: 022632544X
- Language: English
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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
$30.00 Add to cartThis volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Medite… [more below]
- Series: History of Religious Ideas #3
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0226204057
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks: A Life
$23.00 Add to cartOne of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history’s most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O’Brian’s biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of A… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0226616282
- Language: English
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
$22.00 Add to cartTucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs–they are … [more below]
- Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 14 2019
- ISBN10: 022659971X
- Language: English
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The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Add to cartSeeds are nature’s consummate survivors. The next time you admire a field of waving green grassland or a stunning grove of acacia, stop to consider how it got that way–often against incredible odds. … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 19 2018
- ISBN10: 022636223X
- Language: English
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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
$22.00 Read more“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”
Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not rea- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2020
- ISBN10: 022675510X
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$55.00 Add to cartGladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in
Empire.- Author: de la Bédoyère, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: December 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022675023X
- Language: English
