University of Chicago Press
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The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time
$49.00 Add to cartThe landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert … [more below]
- Author: Grande, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0226922960
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) Volume 4
$29.00 Add to cartThis penultimate volume in Pelikan’s acclaimed history of Christian doctrine–winner with Volume 3 of the Medieval Academy’s prestigious Haskins Medal–encompasses the Reformation and the developments… [more below]
- Series: Christian Tradition; A History of the Development of Doctrin (Paperback)
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: December 15 1985
- ISBN10: 0226653773
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00 Add to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 3: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300) Volume 3
$27.00 Add to cart“A magnificent history of doctrine.”–New York Review of Books
“In this volume Jaroslav Pelikan continues the splendid work he has done thus far in his projected five-volume history of the development- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #3
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: August 15 1980
- ISBN10: 0226653757
- Language: English
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
$36.67 Add to cartWas it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of … [more below]
- Author: Clottes, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 022626663X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Roses
$33.25 Add to cartOnce upon a time-before the 1860s-people loved old roses like “Pearl of Gold,” “Marchionesse of Lorne,” or “Autumn Damask.” Then along came the hybrid tea roses, which were easier to arrange, more dra… [more below]
- Author: Christopher, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0226105962
- Language: English
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Undertones of War
$17.00 Add to cart“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I r… [more below]
- Author: Blunden, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226061760
- Language: English
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A Little Queer Natural History
$16.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature.
From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mu- Author: Davis, Josh L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837033
- Language: English
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
$22.00 Add to cartHas American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a hist… [more below]
- Author: Howell, William G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2020
- ISBN10: 022676317X
- Language: English
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, an… [more below]
- Author: Meldahl, Keith Heyer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226519627
- Language: English
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Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque
$19.00 Add to cartVivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurit… [more below]
- Author: Landon, H. C. Robbins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0226468429
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
$17.00 Add to cartDrawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: January 19 1998
- ISBN10: 0226041247
- Language: English
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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet
$36.42 Add to cartThe compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds- Author: Dry, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816842
- Language: English
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History of the Persian Empire
$33.00 Add to cartOut of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Olmstead, A. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 670
- Publish Date: February 15 1959
- ISBN10: 0226627772
- Language: English
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The Prayers of Kierkegaard
$20.00 Add to cartSoren Kierkegaard’s influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0226470571
- Language: English
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Cite Right, Third Edition: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles–Mla, Apa, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
$30.00 Read moreCite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Lipson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 022643110X
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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You Were Never in Chicago
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. A
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022610415X
- Language: English
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Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
$30.08 Add to cartOne of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wi… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0226901351
- Language: English
