University of Chicago Press
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Land and Wine: The French Terroir
$23.00 Add to cartA tour of the French winemaking regions to illustrate how the soil, underlying bedrock, relief, and microclimate shape the personality of a wine.
For centuries, France has long been the world’s great- Author: Frankel, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816729
- Language: English
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Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
$22.00 Read moreLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize win… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022674907X
- Language: English
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Love and Saint Augustine
$22.00 Add to cartHannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine’s concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heideg… [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0226025977
- Language: English
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Doing Honest Work in College, Third Edition: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success
$22.50 Read moreDoing Honest Work in College stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly. These are straightforward concepts, but the abundance of ques… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Academic Life
- Author: Lipson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 022643074X
- Language: English
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
$30.00 Read moreA New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year
Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victo- Author: Bashford, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022672011X
- Language: English
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Trees: From Root to Leaf
$49.95 Read moreTrees seen like never before–a world expert presents a stunning compendium, illuminating science, conservation, and art.
Trees provoke deep affection, spirituality, and creativity. They cover about a
- Author: Smith, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824179
- Language: English
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Enemies of Promise
$19.00 Add to cart
“Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a b… [more below]- Author: Connolly, Cyril
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226115046
- Language: English
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In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People Behind Plant Names
$25.00 Add to cartA vividly illustrated meeting with thirty plants and their inspiring namesakes
Shakespeare famously asserted that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” and that’s as true for common garden- Author: Knapp, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824306
- Language: English
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
$26.00 Add to cartPopular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?
Sciences fro- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 022679587X
- Language: English
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A Planet of Viruses: Third Edition
$18.00 Add to cartIn 2020, an invisible germ–a virus–wholly upended our lives. We’re most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one… [more below]
- Author: Zimmer, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 29 2021
- ISBN10: 022678259X
- Language: English
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Culture and Value
$14.00 Add to cartPeter Winch’s translation of Wittgenstein’s remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference.
“It was Wi- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0226904350
- Language: English
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The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
$20.00 Add to cartA dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind’s affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible–while also threatening its essential fabric.
For thousands of years, we’ve found wa- Author: Von Hippel, Frank A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829561
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric
$19.00 Add to cartFor more than two thousand years. Aristotle’s “Art of Rhetoric” has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhe… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2021
- ISBN10: 022678990X
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
$23.00 Add to cart“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American panth… [more below]
- Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 022659937X
- Language: English
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
$38.00 Read moreThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022602038X
- Language: English
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A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
$38.00 Add to cartThe First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even further, employing maps, charts, reconnaissance, and th… [more below]
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 022675524X
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$19.00 Add to cartGladius 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823903
- Language: English
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Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age
$25.33 Add to cartAn optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world.
Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the fir- Author: Katz, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823962
- Language: English
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
$19.00 Add to cartAs the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scot
- Author: Rozelle, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824012
- Language: English
