University of Chicago Press
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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
$29.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and… [more below]
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0226815455
- Language: English
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Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was
$22.50 Read moreA vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.
Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rh?e, the town of Arles in the south of France had- Author: Seidel, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822192
- Language: English
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Ghost Image
$22.00 Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays–meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems–and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on photo… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 26 2014
- ISBN10: 022613234X
- Language: English
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Lee Miller: A Life
$22.00 Add to cartLee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America’… [more below]
- Author: Burke, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226080676
- Language: English
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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
$20.00 Read moreCrap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much c… [more below]
- Author: Woloson, Wendy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824071
- Language: English
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Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World
$49.00 Add to cartAsk anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a v… [more below]
- Author: Sardet, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2015
- ISBN10: 022618871X
- Language: English
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Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life
$14.00 Add to cartIn this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us–even the math-averse–to understand and cope with grief.
We all know the euphoria o- Author: Frame, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826481
- Language: English
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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cart“When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who h
- Author: Bergman, Ingmar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226043827
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
$27.00 Add to cartMeryle Secrest’s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright’s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hu… [more below]
- Author: Secrest, Meryle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0226744140
- Language: English
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From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
$31.67 Add to cartWhen a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. “You know something!” I would say if it could hear me. “Now tell it to us in languag… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Germano, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 18 2013
- ISBN10: 022606204X
- Language: English
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
$28.00 Add to cart“Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, rangi… [more below]
- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0226468046
- Language: English
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
$26.00 Add to cartIn this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envi… [more below]
- Author: Hayles, N. Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0226321460
- Language: English
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
$29.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regard… [more below]
- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022605568X
- Language: English
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Us and Them: The Science of Identity
$19.00 Add to cartDemocrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group–say, Red Sox fan… [more below]
- Author: Berreby, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226044653
- Language: English
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) Volume 1
$29.00 Add to cartIn this five-volume opus–now available in its entirety in paperback–Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth.
“Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition [- Series: Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christi #1
- Author: Pelikan, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: August 15 1975
- ISBN10: 0226653714
- Language: English
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Negro Mountain
$18.00 Read moreA cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.
In the final section of Negro Mountain, C.- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Giscombe, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829715
- Language: English
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The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America
$22.50 Read moreA history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish modern comfort.
Today, Danish Modern design is synonymous with clean, midcentury cool. D- Author: Taft, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 022655032X
- Language: English
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A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cart“No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about ‘primitive’ and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information … [more below]
- Series: History of Religious Ideas #1
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: April 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0226204014
- Language: English
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
$27.50 Read moreA startling discovery–that job market success after college is largely random–forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college- Author: Streib, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829316
- Language: English
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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
$35.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.
By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almos- Author: Moland, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 022671571X
- Language: English
