University of Chicago Press
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The Pocket Epicurean
$15.00 Add to cartA short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.
As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, t- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022679864X
- Language: English
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
$17.00 Add to cartA profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity–and witness t- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0226823865
- Language: English
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Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
$22.50 Read moreAn award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.
The idea that gender is a performance–a t- Series: Science.Culture
- Author: Prum, Richard O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829782
- Language: English
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The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
$30.00 Read moreAn internationally recognized scientist shows that Earth’s separate continents, once together in Pangea, are again on a collision course.
You’ve heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart s
- Author: Mitchell, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824918
- Language: English
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The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights
$26.00 Add to cartAn urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights–and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans.
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. F- Author: Paul, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 022679296X
- Language: English
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Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.
“There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . rejoice in what is yours. What- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2021
- ISBN10: 022678293X
- Language: English
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The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
$49.00 Add to cartFew people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style‘s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of Eng… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 022618885X
- Language: English
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Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
$45.00 Read moreThere’s nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet–a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been… [more below]
- Author: Leshko, Isa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: May 10 2019
- ISBN10: 022639137X
- Language: English
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Deep Water: From the Frilled Shark to the Dumbo Octopus and from the Continental Shelf to the Mariana Trench
$35.00 Add to cartFrom celebrated science writer Riley Black, a beautifully illustrated, compelling deep dive into the life story of the abyss, its ancient creatures, and the scientists and submersibles that have docum… [more below]
- Author: Black, Riley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226827313
- Language: English
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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
$38.00 Read moreFrom water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the el… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 022677595X
- Language: English
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Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
$25.00 Read moreA damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States–and how we can fix it.
While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, work
- Author: Ghilarducci, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0226831469
- Language: English
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Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
$24.00 Read moreA revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space–and a bold vision for a more equitable, responsible future both on and beyond our planet.
As environmental, po- Author: Rubenstein, Mary-Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0226821129
- Language: English
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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
$18.00 Read moreLongtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the “rights” and “wrongs” of prose … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Saller, Carol Fisher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 18 2016
- ISBN10: 022624007X
- Language: English
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Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth
$27.50 Read more“There is much to love between this book’s covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted–and some truly beautiful ones.”–Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal
Meet the menagerie of lifef- Author: Martin, Anthony J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 022681047X
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales: An Anthology with Tips for Finding, Reporting, and Writing Nonfiction Narratives
$22.50 Add to cartPart anthology and part craft guide, this collection of pieces from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers something for readers and writers alike. Lane DeGregory loves true stories, intimate de… [more below]
- Author: Degregory, Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022677127X
- Language: English
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Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
$33.00 Add to cartJack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize-winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2021
- ISBN10: 022673692X
- Language: English
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The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition Volume 17
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and con
- Series: Collected Works of F.A. Hayek (Paperback) #17
- Author: Hayek, F. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0226315398
- Language: English
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Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
$18.00 Add to cartEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.
This is a book about loving things–books, songs, people–in the shadow of a felt, looming disast- Author: Coviello, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828085
- Language: English
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Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour
$20.00 Read moreA unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.
This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both- Author: Samuelson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 022678004X
- Language: English
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A River Runs Through It
$35.00 Read moreFrom its first magnificent sentence, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing”, to the last, “I am haunted by waters”, A River Runs through It is an American classic.
- Author: MacLean, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0226500608
- Language: English
