University of Chicago Press
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Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror
$35.00 Add to cartAn original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror–the greatest case of “we told you so” in modern political history.
Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble- Author: Varon, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827682
- Language: English
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The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, Second Edition
$60.00 Add to cartAn up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world’s most fascinating frogs.
With almost nine thousand known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and be- Author: O’Shea, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844269
- Language: English
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A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places
$32.50 Add to cartFrom global navigation to natal charts to memory palaces and beyond, a thrilling journey through humanity’s visualization of new spaces.
When you give directions, do you tell someone to go straight a- Author: Huth, John Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844420
- Language: English
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Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
$20.00 Add to cartHow museums display extinct species–and what these exhibits say about us.
While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema- Author: Jørgensen, Dolly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842304
- Language: English
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition
$22.50 Add to cartCelebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.
Aphorisms are literature’- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838609
- Language: English
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Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today
$39.00 Add to cartAn illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.
Is there anything more intriguing than a sec
- Author: Harper, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0226846164
- Language: English
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Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
$30.00 Add to cartAn engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) almo- Author: Bather Woods, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0226829766
- Language: English
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The Complete Notebooks
$45.00 Read moreThe first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.
Throughout his career, French writer and p- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 022669481X
- Language: English
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Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
$22.50 Add to cartThis book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.
Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermin- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Mesle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843629
- Language: English
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As When Waking
$18.00 Add to cartAn exploration of poetic form, centering on the alphabet as both its medium and constraint.
The poems of Daniel Schonning’s debut collection range from personal examinations of childhood suffering an- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Schonning, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 022684384X
- Language: English
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Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense
$19.95 Add to cartThe winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusting) explains his process for writing comedy without going insane.
Philosophers may debate the meaning o- Author: Kalan, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226829928
- Language: English
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The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)
$25.00 Read moreAn eye-opening examination of how power–not technology–will define life with AI.
AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job- Author: Kasy, Maximilian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839532
- Language: English
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Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy
$45.00 Add to cartAn original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment’s purposes and prisoners’ rights.
Impermissible Punishments explores the history
- Author: Resnik, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 10 2025
- ISBN10: 022675474X
- Language: English
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The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life
$26.00 Add to cartA thrilling tour of Earth that shows the search for extraterrestrial life starts in our own backyard.
Is there life off Earth? Bound by the limitations of spaceflight, a growing number of astrobiolog- Author: Willis, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0226822400
- Language: English
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The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion
$32.50 Add to cartA history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world.
Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one o- Author: Jones, Christopher F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 022672204X
- Language: English
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way
$30.00 Add to cartThe globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings.
Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders–these are some of the features- Author: Samson, Maxim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844749
- Language: English
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Power Lines: The Human Costs of American Energy in Transition
$30.00 Add to cartOn American energy and its persisting power to destroy.
In the United States, the promise of a green-energy future is complicated by its realities. The country’s legacy energy systems are decrepit; th
- Author: Carley, Sanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226825620
- Language: English
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Mushroom Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Fungal Lives
$18.00 Add to cartAn hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four fungus species as they spread spores, find food, and adapt to a changing planet.
On this mushroom-filled day, ecologist Alison Pouliot tours the world to i- Series: Earth Day
- Author: Pouliot, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838447
- Language: English
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Tree Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Arboreal Lives
$18.00 Add to cartAn hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four trees as they root, flower, and host diverse forest life.
In this short book, treetop explorer Meg Lowman guides us through a global forest. Each chapter o- Series: Earth Day
- Author: Lowman, Meg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0226833968
- Language: English
