University of Chicago Press
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The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion
$30.00 Read moreA thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy.
At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affecte- Author: Gershberg, Zac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022668170X
- Language: English
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Backflash
$18.00 Read moreParker’s got a couple of rules that have helped keep him alive throughout his long career. One of those is never to work on a boat. But with a gambling boat cruising down the Hudson, stuffed to the gu
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226770605
- Language: English
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The Visual Elements–Photography: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering
$20.00 Read moreFor novice or pro, primary investigator or postdoc, the essentials for photographing science and technology for journals, grant applications, and public understanding.
Award-winning photographer Feli- Series: Visual Elements
- Author: Frankel, Felice C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 022682702X
- Language: English
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We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility
$18.00 Read moreRelating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperiled animals.
The image most of us have of whalers inclu
- Author: Moore, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823997
- Language: English
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Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
$30.00 Read moreSpanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted–and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. … [more below]
- Author: Wailoo, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022679413X
- Language: English
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Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law
$30.00 Read moreThe story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney’s ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.
In our current age o- Author: Selmi, Daniel P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0226816192
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose
$30.00 Read moreDo your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer’s Diet is for you It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost y… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Sword, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 02 2016
- ISBN10: 022635198X
- Language: English
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The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion
$20.00 Read moreA thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas about freedom of speech and democracy.
At the heart of democracy lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affecte- Author: Gershberg, Zac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829413
- Language: English
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Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
$22.00 Read moreThe variety of LGBTQ life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has striven to do just that, amassing a wea… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2020
- ISBN10: 022672753X
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33 Read moreKnown 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 022654933X
- Language: English
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American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa
$30.00 Read moreThis biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape the new imperial order in Africa.
Richard Dorsey- Author: Mohun, Arwen P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828190
- Language: English
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
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Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas
$65.00 Add to cartLavishly illustrated volume revealing the intricacies of a 1742 map of the cosmos.
The expansive and intricate Atlas Coelestis, created by Johann Doppelmayr in 1742, set out to record everything know- Author: Sparrow, Giles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 022682411X
- Language: English
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The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
$25.00 Add to cartA unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz.
On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosiv- Author: Gradowski, Zalmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022663678X
- Language: English
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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition
$38.33 Read moreSince it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called “remission society” of those who s… [more below]
- Author: Frank, Arthur W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 28 2013
- ISBN10: 022600497X
- Language: English
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The Upstate
$18.00 Read morePoetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.
Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Tu- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Turner, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828646
- Language: English
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Fascinating Shells: An Introduction to 121 of the World’s Most Wonderful Mollusks
$22.50 Add to cartA New Scientist Best Book of the Year
Beautiful photographs of stunning shells from London’s Natural History Museum, home to one of the most significant and comprehensive collections in the world. C- Author: Salvador, Andreia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226819132
- Language: English
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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
$27.50 Read moreA must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.
This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn’s unfinished book, The Plur- Author: Kuhn, Thomas S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0226822745
- Language: English
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Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice
$25.00 Read moreA former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system.
As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friend… [more below]- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Goodman, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826236
- Language: English
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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
$19.00 Add to cart“We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that … [more below]
- Author: Ansell MD, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 022679671X
- Language: English
