University of Chicago Press
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A Planet of Viruses: Third Edition
$18.00 Add to cartIn 2020, an invisible germ–a virus–wholly upended our lives. We’re most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one… [more below]
- Author: Zimmer, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 29 2021
- ISBN10: 022678259X
- Language: English
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Culture and Value
$14.00 Add to cartPeter Winch’s translation of Wittgenstein’s remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference.
“It was Wi- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0226904350
- Language: English
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The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
$20.00 Add to cartA dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind’s affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible–while also threatening its essential fabric.
For thousands of years, we’ve found wa- Author: Von Hippel, Frank A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829561
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric
$19.00 Add to cartFor more than two thousand years. Aristotle’s “Art of Rhetoric” has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhe… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2021
- ISBN10: 022678990X
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
$23.00 Read more“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American panth… [more below]
- Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 022659937X
- Language: English
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
$38.00 Read moreThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022602038X
- Language: English
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A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
$38.00 Add to cartThe First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even further, employing maps, charts, reconnaissance, and th… [more below]
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 022675524X
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$19.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823903
- Language: English
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Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
$25.33 Add to cartAn optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.
Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the fir- Author: Katz, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823962
- Language: English
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
$19.00 Add to cartAs the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scot
- Author: Rozelle, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824012
- Language: English
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
$18.00 Add to cartThe Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnes… [more below]
- Author: Mian, Atif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 20 2015
- ISBN10: 022627165X
- Language: English
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The Sour Lemon Score
$17.00 Add to cartBank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a j… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226771105
- Language: English
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Comeback: A Parker Novel
$18.00 Add to cartAfter the bloodbath of Butcher’s Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.”
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770583
- Language: English
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The Jugger
$17.00 Add to cartThey say the past always catches up to you–but if he can help it, Parker won’t let his. In The Jugger, an old contact who could blow Parker’s cover tells Parker he’s in trouble — then turns up dead.
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771024
- Language: English
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Firebreak
$18.00 Add to cartBetween Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the whole world of crime changed. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770656
- Language: English
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Yes
$17.00 Add to cartThe narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scient… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043908
- Language: English
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Slayground
$17.00 Read more- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0226770923
- Language: English
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The Black Ice Score
$17.00 Add to cartA corrupt African colonel has converted half his country’s wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the di… [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226771091
- Language: English
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The Green Eagle Score
$17.00 Add to cartIn The Green Eagle Score, Parker cuts his vacation with Claire short with a new job: stealing the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York. With help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the … [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226771083
- Language: English
