University of Chicago Press
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The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
$16.00 Read moreA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.
Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and t- Author: Richard, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829499
- Language: English
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
$21.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial co
- Author: Turner, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226817423
- Language: English
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Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée Sauvage”
$34.50 Read moreAs the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguisti
- Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 022641308X
- Language: English
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
$29.00 Read moreIn the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 022632592X
- Language: English
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The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life
$64.50 Add to cartThe cell is the basic building block of life. In its 3.5 billion years on the planet, it has proven to be a powerhouse, spreading life first throughout the seas, then across land, developing the rich … [more below]
- Author: Challoner, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 16 2015
- ISBN10: 022622418X
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Orchids
$33.00 Add to cartPerching on tropical trees, partnering with fungi to reproduce, or deceiving birds and amorous insects to promote pollination, orchids fascinate. In the exquisitely illustrated Extraordinary Orchids, … [more below]
- Author: Knapp, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022677967X
- Language: English
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Portal
$18.00 Read moreA poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety.
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes t- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Fuad, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0226831531
- Language: English
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Natural Right and History
$25.00 Add to cartIn this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the… [more below]
- Series: Walgreen Foundation Lectures
- Author: Strauss, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 1965
- ISBN10: 0226776948
- Language: English
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Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality
$45.92 Add to cartIn Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men’s intimacies with men during the nineteenth century–including those of Abraham Lincoln–drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friend… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Jonathan Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: June 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0226426165
- Language: English
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Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
$30.00 Read moreAn urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while compl
- Author: Skrentny, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 226825795
- Language: English
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What’s Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
$16.00 Read moreCombining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of ou… [more below]
- Author: Davies, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823873
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
$29.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and… [more below]
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0226815455
- Language: English
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Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was
$22.50 Read moreA vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.
Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rh?e, the town of Arles in the south of France had- Author: Seidel, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822192
- Language: English
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Ghost Image
$22.00 Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays–meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems–and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on photo… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 26 2014
- ISBN10: 022613234X
- Language: English
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Lee Miller: A Life
$22.00 Add to cartLee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America’… [more below]
- Author: Burke, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226080676
- Language: English
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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
$20.00 Read moreCrap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much c… [more below]
- Author: Woloson, Wendy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824071
- Language: English
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Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World
$49.00 Add to cartAsk anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a v… [more below]
- Author: Sardet, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2015
- ISBN10: 022618871X
- Language: English
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Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life
$14.00 Add to cartIn this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us–even the math-averse–to understand and cope with grief.
We all know the euphoria o- Author: Frame, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826481
- Language: English
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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cart“When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who h
- Author: Bergman, Ingmar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226043827
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
$27.00 Add to cartMeryle Secrest’s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright’s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hu… [more below]
- Author: Secrest, Meryle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0226744140
- Language: English
