University of Chicago Press
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Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America
$19.00 Add to cartTheir names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chanc… [more below]
- Author: Rapp, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 19 2021
- ISBN10: 022679024X
- Language: English
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Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story
$23.00 Read moreAsk a scientist about Hollywood, and you’ll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they’ll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great s… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 022627084X
- Language: English
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Scorsese by Ebert
$19.00 Add to cartRoger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received–for 1967’s I Call First, later renamed Who’s That Knocking at My Door–creating a lasting bond that made him one of
- Author: Ebert, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226182037
- Language: English
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The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers
$31.67 Add to cartAll writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world–when they scribble an observation on t… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Gerard, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 022617980X
- Language: English
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Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
$30.00 Read moreA revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for t… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Ryan Tucker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2022
- ISBN10: 022662885X
- Language: English
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Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
$22.00 Add to cartFor much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of th… [more below]
- Author: Bering, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 23 2020
- ISBN10: 022675555X
- Language: English
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
$15.00 Add to cartArguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of C
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Smith, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226764729
- Language: English
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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic
$22.00 Add to cartGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Sha
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226730247
- Language: English
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
$21.00 Add to cartThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian govern… [more below]
- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226674339
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700) Volume 2
$29.00 Add to cartThe line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the “iron curtain” of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences comb… [more below]
- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #2
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: July 15 1977
- ISBN10: 0226653730
- Language: English
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Iphigenia among the Taurians
$12.00 Add to cartI am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review
My father killed me- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 10 2014
- ISBN10: 022620362X
- Language: English
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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
$31.67 Add to cart“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it … [more below]
- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 022614593X
- Language: English
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
$31.00 Add to cartBased on Michel Foucault’s 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collé‘’e de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited seq… [more below]
- Author: Burchell, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 09 1991
- ISBN10: 0226080455
- Language: English
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A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic
$26.00 Add to cartThis book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic’s natural history-sky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insects-for those who will experience the Arct… [more below]
- Author: Pielou, E. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0226668142
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 5: Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (since 1700)
$27.00 Add to cartJaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in i… [more below]
- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #5
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: October 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0226653803
- Language: English
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The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
$23.00 Add to cartWhen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that… [more below]
- Author: Peters, John Durham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 15 2016
- ISBN10: 022642135X
- Language: English
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How Animals Grieve
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limi… [more below]
- Author: King, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2014
- ISBN10: 022615520X
- Language: English
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The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
$35.00 Add to cartRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America’s tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, an- Author: Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 022673059X
- Language: English
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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World
$20.00 Add to cartA series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists’ ongoing quest to understand the quantum world.
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly- Author: Kaiser, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022681999X
- Language: English
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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to “incite, organize, promote, and encourage” antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants includ
- Author: Schultz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022676074X
- Language: English
