University of Chicago Press
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Karl Marx in America
$39.00 Add to cartThe vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life.
To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential an- Author: Hartman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 022653748X
- Language: English
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How Us Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments
$37.50 Add to cartA vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide–and beyond.
Deserts, the Arctic, outer space–these extreme environments are often seen as inhosp- Author: Heefner, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0226831590
- Language: English
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The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick
$30.00 Add to cartA healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases.
When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits–rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; wat- Author: Kalaugher, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2025
- ISBN10: 226840905
- Language: English
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World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
$35.00 Add to cartA new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe.
As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On Se- Author: Kinder, John M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827666
- Language: English
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Moon Mirrored Indivisible
$18.00 Add to cartMultilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy.
A previously undocumented child of Syrian and Peruvian parents, an inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered vio- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Matuk, Farid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 12 2025
- ISBN10: 022684000X
- Language: English
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This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
$27.50 Add to cartThe remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Music.”
Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs “You’ll Sing a Song and I’l- Author: Wald, Gayle F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 226824810
- Language: English
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
$27.50 Add to cartWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?
In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is t- Author: Ludwig, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0226828131
- Language: English
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Pow! Right in the Eye!: Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting
$22.50 Add to cartMemoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time.
Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish fam- Series: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
- Author: Weill, Berthe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 22 2022
- ISBN10: 022681436X
- Language: English
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartA tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.
The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria’s last great king, held an astonishing c- Author: Wisnom, Selena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2025
- ISBN10: 226822559
- Language: English
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Fossils: An Essential Guide
$26.00 Add to cartWith stunning images and an expert guide, explore the world of fossils to uncover the story of life on Earth, from the origins of new life to mass extinctions.
Ancient Earth seems like an alien world- Author: Taylor, Paul D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839397
- Language: English
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The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
$25.00 Add to cartThe director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.
In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuc- Author: Zuchtriegel, Gabriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839605
- Language: English
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$30.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839680
- Language: English
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Sunk Cost: Who’s to Blame for the Nation’s Broken Student Loan System and How to Fix It
$27.50 Add to cartExposes the forgotten origins of the student loan system, how politicians have attempted to fix it, and the life-altering damage borrowers face.
Student-loan horror stories are a dime a dozen. But st- Author: Berman, Jillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0226821153
- Language: English
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Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
$32.50 Read moreA thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.
By most popular accounts, the universe starte- Author: Afshordi, Niayesh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0226830470
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.00 Add to cartA landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore’s translation o- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022660442X
- Language: English
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Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives
$18.00 Add to cartAn illustrated hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four flowers as they attract pollinators, resist predators, and survive on our changing planet.
Is it 4 AM or chicory o’clock? In this short book, b- Series: Earth Day
- Author: Knapp, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0226834522
- Language: English
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The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
$26.00 Add to cartA thoroughly revised edition of the comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a successful career in writing.
Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Friedman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 18 2025
- ISBN10: 022683865X
- Language: English
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art
$55.00 Add to cartA landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians–from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists.
He toi whakairo, he mana tangata.
Through a- Series: Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Collection
- Author: Brown, Deidre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839621
- Language: English
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions–And How the World Lost Its Mind
$20.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box–a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.
Passengers get bump- Author: Davies, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843084
- Language: English
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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
$22.50 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226836746
- Language: English
