University of Chicago Press
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Against Money
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.
Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card- Author: Mason, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0226842533
- Language: English
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Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
$27.00 Add to cartA remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick.
By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year f- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Quam, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0226828107
- Language: English
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Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America
$27.50 Add to cartSons of Britches. The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee. These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,
Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain- Author: Das, Joanna Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828409
- Language: English
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School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife
$25.00 Add to cartWhy school yearbooks–as frivolous and cringey as they are–are far more than just objects of nostalgia.
We’re all familiar with the embarrassment that washes over us when recalling our high school- Author: Eichhorn, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 022680951X
- Language: English
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Sweet Repetition
$18.00 Add to cartPoetry that centers its movement on repetition–orbiting, unwinding, and returning.
Integrating Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and the works of other poets, this collec- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Cruz, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843769
- Language: English
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Billy Budd, Sailor (an Inside Narrative)
$27.50 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of Billy Budd featuring woodcuts by celebrated artist Barry Moser.
This edition of Billy Budd, Sailor presents Herman Melville’s iconic tale of the high seas alongside illustra- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842487
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
$18.00 Add to cartAn invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini.
By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226845524
- Language: English
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New York Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartAn American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and explosive parts of the Middle East.
In an inve- Author: Balakian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843742
- Language: English
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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World
$39.50 Add to cartA bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene–the killing age.
We are used to speakin- Author: Crais, Clifton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827410
- Language: English
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The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit
$25.00 Add to cartGentrification is not inevitable, reveals Sharon Cornelissen, in this surprising, close look at the Detroit neighborhood of Brightmoor and the harsh reality of depopulation and urban decline.
In the- Series: Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
- Author: Cornelissen, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844714
- Language: English
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Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic
$35.00 Add to cartThe astonishing history of palmistry and biometrics–from occult physicians to the very foundations of modern science and medicine.
Why did Isaac Newton read books on chiromancy, the occult science- Author: Bashford, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0226831159
- Language: English
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Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror
$35.00 Add to cartAn original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror–the greatest case of “we told you so” in modern political history.
Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble- Author: Varon, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827682
- Language: English
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The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, Second Edition
$60.00 Add to cartAn up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world’s most fascinating frogs.
With almost nine thousand known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and be- Author: O’Shea, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844269
- Language: English
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A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places
$32.50 Add to cartFrom global navigation to natal charts to memory palaces and beyond, a thrilling journey through humanity’s visualization of new spaces.
When you give directions, do you tell someone to go straight a- Author: Huth, John Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844420
- Language: English
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Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
$20.00 Add to cartHow museums display extinct species–and what these exhibits say about us.
While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema- Author: Jørgensen, Dolly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842304
- Language: English
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition
$22.50 Add to cartCelebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.
Aphorisms are literature’- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838609
- Language: English
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Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today
$39.00 Add to cartAn illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.
Is there anything more intriguing than a sec
- Author: Harper, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0226846164
- Language: English
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Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
$30.00 Add to cartAn engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) almo- Author: Bather Woods, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0226829766
- Language: English
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The Complete Notebooks
$45.00 Add to cartThe first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.
Throughout his career, French writer and p- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 022669481X
- Language: English
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Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
$22.50 Add to cartThis book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.
Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermin- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Mesle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843629
- Language: English
