University of Chicago Press
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
$20.00 Add to cartLost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs’s narrative in full alongside a full-length biog… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, John Swanson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 022668430X
- Language: English
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The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies
$29.00 Add to cart“Combines accessible prose with solid science.”–Wall Street Journal – “Demonstrates that whatever creature you are–from a giraffe to a Tasmanian devil–life is all about who you know.”–New Scientis… [more below]
- Author: Dugatkin, Lee Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0226818780
- Language: English
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The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
$30.00 Add to cartAll aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be- Author: Alff, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0226822834
- Language: English
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Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
$30.00 Add to cartThis revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social … [more below]
- Author: de la Bédoyère, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832945
- Language: English
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Sound Reporting, Second Edition: The NPR Guide to Broadcast, Podcast and Digital Journalism
$25.00 Read moreThe definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business.
You’ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don’t know where to start. In a time when e- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Brenner, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0226833062
- Language: English
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Boccaccio: A Biography
$37.50 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” o- Author: Santagata, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226820947
- Language: English
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Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience
$20.00 Add to cartThis engaging guide offers practical advice to teachers on how to utilize their existing classroom skills to become more effective public writers.
After years spent cultivating their expertise and pa- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Lang, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839672
- Language: English
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Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World
$18.00 Add to cartAlbert 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840026
- Language: English
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Fishes of the Chicago Region: A Field Guide
$35.00 Add to cart“A treasure of hardcore fish intelligence and delightful tidbits of fish history.”–Dale Bowman, Chicago Sun-Times
Fish don’t heed state boundaries, and neither does this comprehensive, photo-filled g- Author: Veraldi, Francis M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837351
- Language: English
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Saving Orchids: Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World
$35.00 Add to cartA gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids–and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe.
Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In
- Author: Seaton, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839419
- Language: English
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The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression
$20.00 Add to cartA collection of texts that provide the foundation for the University of Chicago’s longstanding tradition of free expression, principles that are at the center of current debates within higher educatio… [more below]
- Author: Banout, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837807
- Language: English
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Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
$17.00 Add to cartScientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia’s wonderfully unique mammals–and how our perceptions impact their future.
Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-c- Author: Ashby, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0226833216
- Language: English
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The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry
$30.00 Read moreA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America.
A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentiet- Author: O’Malley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835901
- Language: English
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More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working
$27.50 Add to cartThis study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand–and perhaps alleviate–the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy.
For a widely dreaded, often mundane- Author: Lane, Carrie M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832775
- Language: English
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Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions
$16.00 Read moreA Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics’ biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality.
At the start of the twentieth century,- Series: The France Chicago Collection
- Author: Aspect, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832015
- Language: English
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Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose
$24.00 Add to cartEconomics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no.
Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear st- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 17 2019
- ISBN10: 022644807X
- Language: English
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The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartOur idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we te- Author: Roosevelt III, Kermit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829510
- Language: English
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The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition
$18.00 Add to cartA fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicol?s Guill?n presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition.
Born in Cuba to parents of African and European ancestry, Nicol?s- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Guill?n, Nicol?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226834794
- Language: English
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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
$16.00 Read moreA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226842665
- Language: English
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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History
$30.00 Add to cartA bracing, accessible history of white American liberals–and why it’s time to change the conversation about them.
If there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s that everyone hates white lib- Author: Schultz, Kevin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226824365
- Language: English
