University of Chicago Press
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From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
$31.67 Add to cartWhen a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. “You know something!” I would say if it could hear me. “Now tell it to us in languag… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Germano, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 18 2013
- ISBN10: 022606204X
- Language: English
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
$28.00 Add to cart“Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, rangi… [more below]
- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0226468046
- Language: English
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
$26.00 Add to cartIn this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envi… [more below]
- Author: Hayles, N. Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0226321460
- Language: English
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
$29.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regard… [more below]
- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022605568X
- Language: English
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Us and Them: The Science of Identity
$19.00 Add to cartDemocrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group–say, Red Sox fan… [more below]
- Author: Berreby, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226044653
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) Volume 1
$29.00 Add to cartIn this five-volume opus–now available in its entirety in paperback–Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth.
“Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition [- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #1
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: August 15 1975
- ISBN10: 0226653714
- Language: English
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Negro Mountain
$18.00 Read moreA cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.
In the final section of Negro Mountain, C.- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Giscombe, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829715
- Language: English
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The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America
$22.50 Read moreA history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish modern comfort.
Today, Danish Modern design is synonymous with clean, midcentury cool. D- Author: Taft, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 022655032X
- Language: English
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A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cart“No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about ‘primitive’ and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information … [more below]
- Series: History of Religious Ideas #1
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: April 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0226204014
- Language: English
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
$27.50 Read moreA startling discovery–that job market success after college is largely random–forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college- Author: Streib, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829316
- Language: English
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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
$35.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.
By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almos- Author: Moland, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 022671571X
- Language: English
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Land and Wine: The French Terroir
$23.00 Add to cartA tour of the French winemaking regions to illustrate how the soil, underlying bedrock, relief, and microclimate shape the personality of a wine.
For centuries, France has long been the world’s great- Author: Frankel, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816729
- Language: English
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Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
$22.00 Read moreLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize win… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022674907X
- Language: English
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Love and Saint Augustine
$22.00 Add to cartHannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine’s concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heideg… [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0226025977
- Language: English
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Doing Honest Work in College, Third Edition: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success
$22.50 Read moreDoing Honest Work in College stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly. These are straightforward concepts, but the abundance of ques… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Academic Life
- Author: Lipson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 022643074X
- Language: English
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
$30.00 Add to cartA New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year
Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victo- Author: Bashford, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022672011X
- Language: English
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Trees: From Root to Leaf
$49.95 Add to cartTrees seen like never before–a world expert presents a stunning compendium, illuminating science, conservation, and art.
Trees provoke deep affection, spirituality, and creativity. They cover about a
- Author: Smith, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824179
- Language: English
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Enemies of Promise
$19.00 Add to cart
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a b… [more below]- Author: Connolly, Cyril
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226115046
- Language: English
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In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People Behind Plant Names
$25.00 Add to cartA vividly illustrated meeting with thirty plants and their inspiring namesakes
Shakespeare famously asserted that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and that’s as true for common garden- Author: Knapp, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824306
- Language: English
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
$26.00 Add to cartPopular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?
Sciences fro- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 022679587X
- Language: English
