University of Chicago Press
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The Concept of Mind
$30.00 Add to cartThis now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy’s “official theory,” the Cartesians “myth” of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle’s linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography … [more below]
- Author: Ryle, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: December 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0226732967
- Language: English
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Doodling for Academics: A Coloring and Activity Book
$18.00 Add to cartTo an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes…. [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Academic Life
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 21 2017
- ISBN10: 022646704X
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini
$29.00 Add to cartMost people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works–Arabian Nights, The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales among … [more below]
- Author: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 22 2015
- ISBN10: 022632544X
- Language: English
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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
$30.00 Add to cartThis volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Medite… [more below]
- Series: History of Religious Ideas #3
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0226204057
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks: A Life
$23.00 Add to cartOne of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history’s most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O’Brian’s biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of A… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0226616282
- Language: English
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
$22.00 Add to cartTucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs–they are … [more below]
- Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 14 2019
- ISBN10: 022659971X
- Language: English
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The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Add to cartSeeds are nature’s consummate survivors. The next time you admire a field of waving green grassland or a stunning grove of acacia, stop to consider how it got that way–often against incredible odds. … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 19 2018
- ISBN10: 022636223X
- Language: English
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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
$22.00 Add to cart“Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”
Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it’s not rea- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2020
- ISBN10: 022675510X
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$55.00 Read moreGladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in
Empire.- Author: de la Bédoyère, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: December 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022675023X
- Language: English
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The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
$16.00 Read moreA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.
Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and t- Author: Richard, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829499
- Language: English
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
$21.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial co
- Author: Turner, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226817423
- Language: English
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Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée Sauvage”
$34.50 Read moreAs the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguisti
- Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 022641308X
- Language: English
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
$29.00 Add to cartIn the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 022632592X
- Language: English
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The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life
$64.50 Add to cartThe cell is the basic building block of life. In its 3.5 billion years on the planet, it has proven to be a powerhouse, spreading life first throughout the seas, then across land, developing the rich … [more below]
- Author: Challoner, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 16 2015
- ISBN10: 022622418X
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Orchids
$33.00 Add to cartPerching on tropical trees, partnering with fungi to reproduce, or deceiving birds and amorous insects to promote pollination, orchids fascinate. In the exquisitely illustrated Extraordinary Orchids, … [more below]
- Author: Knapp, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2021
- ISBN10: 022677967X
- Language: English
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Portal
$18.00 Read moreA poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety.
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes t- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Fuad, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0226831531
- Language: English
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Natural Right and History
$25.00 Add to cartIn this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the… [more below]
- Series: Walgreen Foundation Lectures
- Author: Strauss, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 1965
- ISBN10: 0226776948
- Language: English
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Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality
$45.92 Add to cartIn Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men’s intimacies with men during the nineteenth century–including those of Abraham Lincoln–drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friend… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Jonathan Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: June 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0226426165
- Language: English
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Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
$30.00 Read moreAn urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while compl
- Author: Skrentny, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 226825795
- Language: English
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What’s Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
$16.00 Read moreCombining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of ou… [more below]
- Author: Davies, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823873
- Language: English
