University of Chicago Press
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Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
$24.00 Read moreA revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space–and a bold vision for a more equitable, responsible future both on and beyond our planet.
As environmental, po- Author: Rubenstein, Mary-Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0226821129
- Language: English
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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
$18.00 Add to cartLongtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the “rights” and “wrongs” of prose … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Saller, Carol Fisher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 18 2016
- ISBN10: 022624007X
- Language: English
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Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth
$27.50 Read more“There is much to love between this book’s covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted–and some truly beautiful ones.”–Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal
Meet the menagerie of lifef- Author: Martin, Anthony J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 022681047X
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales: An Anthology with Tips for Finding, Reporting, and Writing Nonfiction Narratives
$22.50 Read morePart anthology and part craft guide, this collection of pieces from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers something for readers and writers alike. Lane DeGregory loves true stories, intimate de… [more below]
- Author: Degregory, Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022677127X
- Language: English
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Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
$33.00 Add to cartJack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize-winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2021
- ISBN10: 022673692X
- Language: English
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The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition Volume 17
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and con
- Series: Collected Works of F.A. Hayek (Paperback) #17
- Author: Hayek, F. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0226315398
- Language: English
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Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things
$18.00 Add to cartEssays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster.
This is a book about loving things–books, songs, people–in the shadow of a felt, looming disast- Author: Coviello, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828085
- Language: English
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Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour
$20.00 Read moreA unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.
This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both- Author: Samuelson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 022678004X
- Language: English
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A River Runs Through It
$35.00 Add to cartFrom its first magnificent sentence, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing”, to the last, “I am haunted by waters”, A River Runs through It is an American classic.
- Author: MacLean, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0226500608
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$15.00 Add to cartKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826600
- Language: English
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Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project
$40.00 Read moreNew edition of poignant selected images from famed Life photographer W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh project.
In 1955, having just resigned from his high-profile but stormy career with Life Magazine, W.- Author: Smith, W. Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824837
- Language: English
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The Book of Snakes: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$0.00 Read moreFor millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional combination of fascination and revulsion. Some people recoil in fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while others happily keep
- Author: O’Shea, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 15, 2018
- ISBN10: 022645939X
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Boston History
$43.00 Add to cartFew American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston’s. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has… [more below]
- Author: Seasholes, Nancy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 022663115X
- Language: English
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
$19.00 Add to cartIn the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering…. [more below]
- Series: Synthesis (University of Chicago)
- Author: Hughes, Sally Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 022604551X
- Language: English
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A Bag of Marbles
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out … [more below]
- Author: Joffo, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0226400697
- Language: English
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Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park
$40.00 Add to cartIn 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Douglas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 07 2020
- ISBN10: 022672834X
- Language: English
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
$29.00 Add to cartEditing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. Th… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Ginna, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2017
- ISBN10: 022629997X
- Language: English
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Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cart“Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
Ernest Hemingw- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226013863
- Language: English
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The Library: A World History
$75.00 Add to cartA library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelv… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James W. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022609281X
- Language: English
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The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers
$22.50 Add to cartSeasoned designer Debbie Berne presents an accessible introduction to book design for authors, editors, and other book people.
Design is central to the appeal, messaging, and usefulness of books, but- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Berne, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0226822958
- Language: English
