University of Chicago Press
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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
$28.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 732
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677141
- Language: English
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Ideas Have Consequences
$34.83 Add to cartOriginally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagno… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 022609006X
- Language: English
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Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
$25.00 Read moreA daily celebration of Chicago’s history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining.
Every day in Chicago is a day to remember. In a city so rich with history, every day is the anniversary of s- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 022677984X
- Language: English
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Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
$17.00 Add to cartFor more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic w… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022664393X
- Language: English
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On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts
$23.00 Read moreA trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of writing: revision.
So you’ve just finished writing something? Congratulations! Now revise it. Because revision is about getting from- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Germano, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022641065X
- Language: English
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
$38.00 Add to cartThough at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashe… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 022633242X
- Language: English
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Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
$29.00 Read moreA vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago’s most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify them.
- Author: Kamin, Blair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 21, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226822737
- Language: English
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The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Read moreOne in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Yet orchids retain an air of exotic mystery–and they remain remarkably misunderstood and underappreciated. The orchid family contains an ast… [more below]
- Author: Chase, Mark W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 022622452X
- Language: English
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Doña Barbara
$21.00 Add to cartRómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela’s first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela’s literary treasur
- Author: Gallegos, Rómulo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0226279200
- Language: English
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The Pocket Epicurean
$15.00 Add to cartA short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.
As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, t- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022679864X
- Language: English
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
$17.00 Add to cartA profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity–and witness t- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0226823865
- Language: English
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Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
$22.50 Read moreAn award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.
The idea that gender is a performance–a t- Series: Science.Culture
- Author: Prum, Richard O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829782
- Language: English
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The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
$30.00 Read moreAn internationally recognized scientist shows that Earth’s separate continents, once together in Pangea, are again on a collision course.
You’ve heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart s
- Author: Mitchell, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824918
- Language: English
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The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights
$26.00 Add to cartAn urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights–and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans.
Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. F- Author: Paul, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 022679296X
- Language: English
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Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.
“There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . rejoice in what is yours. What- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2021
- ISBN10: 022678293X
- Language: English
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The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
$49.00 Add to cartFew people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style‘s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of Eng… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 022618885X
- Language: English
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Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
$45.00 Add to cartThere’s nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet–a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been… [more below]
- Author: Leshko, Isa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: May 10 2019
- ISBN10: 022639137X
- Language: English
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Deep Water: From the Frilled Shark to the Dumbo Octopus and from the Continental Shelf to the Mariana Trench
$35.00 Add to cartFrom celebrated science writer Riley Black, a beautifully illustrated, compelling deep dive into the life story of the abyss, its ancient creatures, and the scientists and submersibles that have docum… [more below]
- Author: Black, Riley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226827313
- Language: English
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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
$38.00 Add to cartFrom water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the el… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 022677595X
- Language: English
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Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
$25.00 Add to cartA damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States–and how we can fix it.
While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, work
- Author: Ghilarducci, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0226831469
- Language: English
