University of Chicago Press
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Chicago Reflected: A Skyline Drawing from the Chicago River
$29.95 Read moreA unique and playful hand-drawn exploration of the Chicago River’s landscape, documented on an eleven-foot-long foldout.
In March 2020, architect Ryan Chester began drawing the Chicago River for at l… [more below]- Author: Chester, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828549
- Language: English
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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives
$18.00 Add to cartAn hourly guide that follows twenty-four birds as they find food, mates, and safety from predators.
From morning to night and from the Antarctic to the equator, birds have busy days. In this short bo- Series: Earth Day
- Author: Hauber, Mark E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022681940X
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$26.00 Add to cartAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country’s equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his re… [more below]
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 722
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0226805360
- Language: English
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Justice by Means of Democracy
$27.50 Add to cartFrom leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism.
At a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of t- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 022677709X
- Language: English
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Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World
$22.50 Read moreAlbert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.
In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from L- Series: The France Chicago Collection
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 022669495X
- Language: English
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The Hunter
$16.00 Read moreShe shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. It all went down just the way they’d planned, excep… [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226770990
- Language: English
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The Greater Perfection: The Story of the Gardens at Les Quatre Vents
$65.00 Read moreThe Greater Perfection, now with a new foreword by Francis H. Cabot’s daughter, tells the story behind the creation of Les Quatre Vents, one of the world’s most breathtaking gardens.
Featured in the- Author: Cabot, Francis H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0226829812
- Language: English
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The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox Parc, and the Original Internet of Things
$29.00 Read moreA compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry’s quest to connect everything–and who hoped for something better.
When developers and critics- Author: Tinnell, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 022675720X
- Language: English
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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
$28.00 Read moreAn engrossing origin story for the personal computer–showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance.
Skip the iPhone, the iPod,- Author: Nooney, Laine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226816524
- Language: English
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Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Water Always Wins is a hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water.
Ne- Author: Gies, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829421
- Language: English
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Vexations
$18.00 Read moreA mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem.
Annelyse Gelman’s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empa- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Gelman, Annelyse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826112
- Language: English
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The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
$22.00 Add to cartA taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague.
Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little- Author: Montague, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829103
- Language: English
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Hilma AF Klint: A Biography
$35.00 Add to cartA highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter.
The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in whic- Author: Voss, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 022668976X
- Language: English
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
$18.00 Read moreAre we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first ma… [more below]
- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 24 2017
- ISBN10: 022652681X
- Language: English
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Who’s a Good Dog?: And How to Be a Better Human
$26.00 Read moreA New Scientist Best Book of 2023
A guide to cultivating a shared life of joy and respect with our dogs. Who’s a Good Dog? is an invitation to nurture more thoughtful and balanced relationships with o- Author: Pierce, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 022672171X
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and… [more below]
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823954
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t
$29.00 Read moreA “piercing, unsentimental” (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? O- Author: Conn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826902
- Language: English
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The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments
$18.00 Add to cartThe complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity.
“Some things are up to us and some are not.” Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE,- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 022676947X
- Language: English
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Young Men and Fire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
$22.00 Add to cartA devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers… [more below]
- Author: MacLean, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 022645035X
- Language: English
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Midwestern Food: A Chef’s Guide to the Surprising History of a Great American Cuisine, with More Than 100 Tasty Recipes
$27.50 Read moreAn acclaimed chef offers a historically informed cookbook that will change how you think about Midwestern cuisine.
Celebrated chef Paul Fehribach has made his name serving up some of the most thought- Author: Fehribach, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0226819493
- Language: English
