University of Chicago Press
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Fossils: An Essential Guide
$26.00 Add to cartWith stunning images and an expert guide, explore the world of fossils to uncover the story of life on Earth, from the origins of new life to mass extinctions.
Ancient Earth seems like an alien world- Author: Taylor, Paul D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839397
- Language: English
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The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
$25.00 Add to cartThe director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.
In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuc- Author: Zuchtriegel, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839605
- Language: English
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$30.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839680
- Language: English
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Sunk Cost: Who’s to Blame for the Nation’s Broken Student Loan System and How to Fix It
$27.50 Add to cartExposes the forgotten origins of the student loan system, how politicians have attempted to fix it, and the life-altering damage borrowers face.
Student-loan horror stories are a dime a dozen. But st- Author: Berman, Jillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0226821153
- Language: English
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Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
$32.50 Add to cartA thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.
By most popular accounts, the universe starte- Author: Afshordi, Niayesh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0226830470
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.00 Add to cartA landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore’s translation o- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022660442X
- Language: English
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Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives
$18.00 Add to cartAn illustrated hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four flowers as they attract pollinators, resist predators, and survive on our changing planet.
Is it 4 AM or chicory o’clock? In this short book, b- Series: Earth Day
- Author: Knapp, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226834522
- Language: English
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The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
$26.00 Add to cartA thoroughly revised edition of the comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a successful career in writing.
Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Friedman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 18 2025
- ISBN10: 022683865X
- Language: English
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art
$55.00 Add to cartA landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians–from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists.
He toi whakairo, he mana tangata.
Through a- Series: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
- Author: Brown, Deidre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839621
- Language: English
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions–And How the World Lost Its Mind
$20.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box–a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.
Passengers get bump- Author: Davies, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843084
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$22.50 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“A must-read, with key lessons for the future.”–Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a centu- Author: Mattei, Clara E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226836746
- Language: English
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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
$22.00 Add to cart“Bold and intriguing.”–Wall Street Journal – “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) – “Offers plenty of food for thought.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840069
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$37.50 Read moreAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawn- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837971
- Language: English
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Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
$18.00 Add to cartAward-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West.
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colo- Author: Hansman, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0226819973
- Language: English
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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
$40.00 Add to cartReissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith’s time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians.
In 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at Life and- Author: Smith, W. Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824845
- Language: English
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Plant Families: A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists
$29.00 Add to cartMost of us lump plants together in one big family, and when pressed can only explain their grouping by what they’re not–not an animal, not a mineral, and so just a plant. In reality, there are hundre… [more below]
- Author: Bayton, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2017
- ISBN10: 022652308X
- Language: English
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Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
$26.00 Read moreWinner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Water Always Wins is a hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water.
Ne- Author: Gies, Erica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 13 2022
- ISBN10: 022671960X
- Language: English
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Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter
$65.00 Add to cartThe first book to combine exquisite cartographical charts of the Moon with a thorough exploration of the Moon’s role in popular culture, science, and myth.
President John F. Kennedy’s rousing “We wil- Author: Shindell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 226836517
- Language: English
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Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
$35.00 Add to cartWhat we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.
Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what i- Author: Shapin, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 022683221X
- Language: English
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A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps
$40.00 Add to cartThe first international history of railroads and railroad infrastructure told through stunningly reproduced maps.
Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, railroads have spread across the gl
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837882
- Language: English
