University of Chicago Press
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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 Read moreEditing 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
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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Volume 1
$22.00 Add to cartHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the “errors of socialism.” Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even o… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of F. A. Hayek #1
- Author: Hayek, F. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 28 1991
- ISBN10: 0226320669
- Language: English
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Notes and Methods
$49.00 Add to cartAt the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before… [more below]
- Author: Af Klint, Hilma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022659193X
- Language: English
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The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
$35.00 Add to cartA visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities.
Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience–being stuck in traffic. Bu- Author: Berman, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829790
- Language: English
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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
$32.50 Read moreFor the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it ha- Author: Johns, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022682148X
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
$23.00 Add to cart“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far
- Series: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 022669142X
- Language: English
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
$23.00 Add to cart“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench a… [more below]
- Author: Mayer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 022652583X
- Language: English
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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
$29.00 Read moreSince Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite
- Author: Harrison, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 21, 2012
- ISBN10: 022600919X
- Language: English
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Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
$22.50 Read moreA delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea–whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.
For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet’s- Series: Oceans in Depth
- Author: King, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0226818039
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
$24.00 Add to cartAn invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini.
By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826643
- Language: English
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Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution
$22.00 Add to cartBiologists, breeders and trainers, and champion sled dog racers, Raymond and Lorna Coppinger have more than four decades of experience with literally thousands of dogs. Offering a scientifically infor
- Author: Coppinger, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15, 2002
- ISBN10: 0226115631
- Language: English
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The Pocket Stoic
$15.00 Add to cartTo counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very diff… [more below]
- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 022668296X
- Language: English
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The Bridge on the Drina
$18.00 Add to cartThe Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the … [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Andric, Ivo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 15 1977
- ISBN10: 0226020452
- Language: English
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So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything
$29.00 Read moreHow humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.
Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edg- Author: Colwell, Chip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 022680142X
- Language: English
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Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored
$29.00 Add to cartGardening can be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy. Fickle plants make seemingly spontaneous decisions to bloom or bust, seeds sprout magically in the blink of an eye, and deep-rooted mysteries unfold
- Author: Hodge, Geoff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18, 2013
- ISBN10: 022609393X
- Language: English
