University of Chicago Press
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$15.00 Add to cartKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826600
- Language: English
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Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project
$40.00 Read moreNew edition of poignant selected images from famed Life photographer W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh project.
In 1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career with Life Magazine, W.- Author: Smith, W. Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824837
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Boston History
$43.00 Add to cartFew American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston’s. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has… [more below]
- Author: Seasholes, Nancy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 022663115X
- Language: English
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
$19.00 Add to cartIn the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering…. [more below]
- Series: Synthesis (University of Chicago)
- Author: Hughes, Sally Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 022604551X
- Language: English
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A Bag of Marbles
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out … [more below]
- Author: Joffo, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0226400697
- Language: English
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Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park
$40.00 Add to cartIn 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Douglas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 07 2020
- ISBN10: 022672834X
- Language: English
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
$29.00 Read moreEditing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. Th… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Ginna, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2017
- ISBN10: 022629997X
- Language: English
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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cart“Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
Ernest Hemingw- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226013863
- Language: English
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The Library: A World History
$75.00 Add to cartA library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelv… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James W. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022609281X
- Language: English
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The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers
$22.50 Add to cartSeasoned designer Debbie Berne presents an accessible introduction to book design for authors, editors, and other book people.
Design is central to the appeal, messaging, and usefulness of books, but- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Berne, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0226822958
- Language: English
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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Volume 1
$22.00 Add to cartHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the “errors of socialism.” Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even o… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of F. A. Hayek #1
- Author: Hayek, F. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 28 1991
- ISBN10: 0226320669
- Language: English
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Notes and Methods
$49.00 Add to cartAt the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before… [more below]
- Author: Af Klint, Hilma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022659193X
- Language: English
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The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
$35.00 Add to cartA visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities.
Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience–being stuck in traffic. Bu- Author: Berman, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829790
- Language: English
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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
$32.50 Read moreFor the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it ha- Author: Johns, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022682148X
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
$23.00 Add to cart“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far
- Series: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 022669142X
- Language: English
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
$23.00 Add to cart“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench a… [more below]
- Author: Mayer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 022652583X
- Language: English
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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
$29.00 Add to cartSince Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite
- Author: Harrison, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 21, 2012
- ISBN10: 022600919X
- Language: English
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Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
$22.50 Read moreA delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea–whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.
For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet’s- Series: Oceans in Depth
- Author: King, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0226818039
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
$24.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826643
- Language: English
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Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution
$22.00 Add to cartBiologists, breeders and trainers, and champion sled dog racers, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger have more than four decades of experience with literally thousands of dogs. Offering a scientifically infor
- Author: Coppinger, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15, 2002
- ISBN10: 0226115631
- Language: English
