University of Chicago Press
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Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates
$43.00 Add to cart“Cephalopods are often misunderstood creatures. Three biologists set the record straight.”–Science News
Largely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda- Author: Hanlon, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2018
- ISBN10: 022645956X
- Language: English
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The Book of Snakes: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Add to cartUpdated to reflect the most recent species classifications, a second edition of the beautifully illustrated and beloved guide to 600 members of the suborder Serpentes.
For millennia, humans have rega- Author: O’Shea, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832856
- Language: English
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
$30.00 Read moreA riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media.
“The whole world is watching!” cried protestors at the 1968 Democra- Author: Hendershot, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 022676852X
- Language: English
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring t… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0226142698
- Language: English
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Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
$23.00 Add to cart- Author: Kripal, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 594
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226453707
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King
$16.67 Add to cartAvailable for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to sav
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226768686
- Language: English
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Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition
$31.50 Add to cartStudents of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper–and for decades Kate L. Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Turabian, Kate L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2019
- ISBN10: 022643026X
- Language: English
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa, Enlarged Edition
$46.67 Add to cartThe original publication of The Challenger Launch Decision occurred on January 28th, 1996, the 10th anniversary of that catastrophe. That very morning, a Sunday, the book was features in the New York … [more below]
- Author: Vaughan, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: January 04 2016
- ISBN10: 022634682X
- Language: English
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Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
$34.50 Read moreLet’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is in… [more below]
- Author: Wineburg, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022635721X
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Alchemy
$27.00 Add to cartIn The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and cu… [more below]
- Series: Synthesis
- Author: Principe, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 18 2015
- ISBN10: 022610379X
- Language: English
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
$18.00 Add to cartA look at the history and myth of the objective journalist and how this ideal has been used to silence marginalized voices.
In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history- Author: Wallace, Lewis Raven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826589
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
$28.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 732
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677141
- Language: English
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Ideas Have Consequences
$34.83 Add to cartOriginally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagno… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 022609006X
- Language: English
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Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
$25.00 Read moreA daily celebration of Chicago’s history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining.
Every day in Chicago is a day to remember. In a city so rich with history, every day is the anniversary of s- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 022677984X
- Language: English
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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
$17.00 Read moreFor more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic w… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022664393X
- Language: English
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On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts
$23.00 Read moreA trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of writing: revision.
So you’ve just finished writing something? Congratulations! Now revise it. Because revision is about getting from- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Germano, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022641065X
- Language: English
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
$38.00 Add to cartThough at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashe… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 022633242X
- Language: English
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Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
$29.00 Read moreA vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago’s most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them.
- Author: Kamin, Blair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 21, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226822737
- Language: English
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The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Read moreOne in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Yet orchids retain an air of exotic mystery–and they remain remarkably misunderstood and underappreciated. The orchid family contains an ast… [more below]
- Author: Chase, Mark W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 022622452X
- Language: English
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Doña Barbara
$21.00 Add to cartRómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela’s first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela’s literary treasur
- Author: Gallegos, Rómulo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0226279200
- Language: English
