University of Chicago Press
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Saving Orchids: Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World
$35.00 Add to cartA gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids–and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe.
Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In
- Author: Seaton, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839419
- Language: English
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The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression
$33.33 Add to cartA collection of texts that provide the foundation for the University of Chicago’s longstanding tradition of free expression, principles that are at the center of current debates within higher educatio… [more below]
- Author: Banout, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837807
- Language: English
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Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
$17.00 Read moreScientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia’s wonderfully unique mammals–and how our perceptions impact their future.
Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-c- Author: Ashby, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0226833216
- Language: English
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The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry
$30.00 Read moreA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America.
A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentiet- Author: O’Malley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835901
- Language: English
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More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working
$27.50 Add to cartThis study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand–and perhaps alleviate–the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy.
For a widely dreaded, often mundane- Author: Lane, Carrie M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832775
- Language: English
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Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions
$16.00 Add to cartA Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics’ biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality.
At the start of the twentieth century,- Series: The France Chicago Collection
- Author: Aspect, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832015
- Language: English
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Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose
$24.00 Add to cartEconomics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no.
Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear st- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 17 2019
- ISBN10: 022644807X
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition
$18.00 Read moreA fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicol?s Guill?n presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.
Born in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicol?s- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Guill?n, Nicol?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226834794
- Language: English
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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
$16.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.
The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as i- Author: Henderson, Caspar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842665
- Language: English
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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History
$30.00 Add to cartA bracing, accessible history of white American liberals–and why it’s time to change the conversation about them.
If there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s that everyone hates white lib- Author: Schultz, Kevin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226824365
- Language: English
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Karl Marx in America
$39.00 Add to cartThe vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life.
To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential an- Author: Hartman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 022653748X
- Language: English
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How Us Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments
$37.50 Add to cartA vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide–and beyond.
Deserts, the Arctic, outer space–these extreme environments are often seen as inhosp- Author: Heefner, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0226831590
- Language: English
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The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick
$30.00 Add to cartA healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases.
When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits–rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; wat- Author: Kalaugher, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2025
- ISBN10: 226840905
- Language: English
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World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
$35.00 Add to cartA new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe.
As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On Se- Author: Kinder, John M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827666
- Language: English
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Moon Mirrored Indivisible
$18.00 Read moreMultilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy.
A previously undocumented child of Syrian and Peruvian parents, an inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered vio- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Matuk, Farid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 12 2025
- ISBN10: 022684000X
- Language: English
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This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
$27.50 Add to cartThe remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Music.”
Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs “You’ll Sing a Song and I’l- Author: Wald, Gayle F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 226824810
- Language: English
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
$27.50 Add to cartWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?
In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is t- Author: Ludwig, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828131
- Language: English
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Pow! Right in the Eye!: Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting
$22.50 Add to cartMemoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time.
Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish fam- Series: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
- Author: Weill, Berthe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 22 2022
- ISBN10: 022681436X
- Language: English
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartA tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.
The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing c- Author: Wisnom, Selena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2025
- ISBN10: 226822559
- Language: English
