University of Chicago Press
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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
$24.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.
The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as i- Author: Henderson, Caspar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0226823237
- Language: English
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The Iliad of Homer
$18.00 Add to cart“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation.” For sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation–the gold stan
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226470490
- Language: English
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Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
$27.50 Read moreMeeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind.
In Mountains of Fire, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand with him in the shadow of an active- Author: Oppenheimer, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826341
- Language: English
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Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology
$30.00 Read moreAn incisive history of early American archaeology–from reckless looting to professional science–and the field’s unfinished efforts to make amends today, told “with passion, indignation, and a dash o… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822389
- Language: English
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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
$29.00 Add to cart“Bold and intriguing.”–Wall Street Journal – “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) – “Offers plenty of food for thought.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826686
- Language: English
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The Human Condition: Second Edition
$26.00 Read moreThe past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations–from totalitar… [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 022658660X
- Language: English
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The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
$25.00 Add to cartThe surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems.
In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case- Author: Kearney, Melissa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226817784
- Language: English
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Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online
$14.00 Add to cartAn indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet–often in less than 30 seconds.
The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often ju- Author: Caulfield, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822060
- Language: English
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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition Volume 2
$21.00 Add to cartAn unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for … [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of F.A. Hayek (Paperback) #2
- Author: Hayek, F. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226320553
- Language: English
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A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today’s students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Turabian, Kate L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 022643057X
- Language: English
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Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class
$20.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.
First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthrop- Author: Davis, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226817989
- Language: English
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
$19.00 Add to cart“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2020
- ISBN10: 022652616X
- Language: English
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Metaphors We Live by
$19.00 Read moreThe now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us … [more below]
- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0226468011
- Language: English
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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
$35.00 Read moreA New Scientist Best Book of 2023
Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This illustrated his- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0226825825
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Freedom
$22.00 Add to cartOne of TIME magazine’s All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books
One of Times Literary Supplement‘s 100 Most Influential Books Since the War
One of National Review‘s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Centur… [more below]- Author: Friedman, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 022673479X
- Language: English
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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
$26.00 Add to cartA history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.
Creat- Author: Franklin, Samuel W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 022665785X
- Language: English
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Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions
$24.00 Read moreAn essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making.
Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor’s office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weathe- Author: Downey, Allen B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822583
- Language: English
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Legal Writing in Plain English, Third Edition: A Text with Exercises
$22.50 Add to cartThe leading guide to clear writing
Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful–all too often, legal writing embodies none of these qualities. Its reputation for obscurity and needless lega- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226816540
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
$49.00 Add to cartIt’s one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know … [more below]
- Author: Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2018
- ISBN10: 022659663X
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$30.00 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“A must-read, with key lessons for the future.”–Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a centu- Author: Mattei, Clara E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 022681839X
- Language: English
