University of Chicago Press
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
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Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas
$65.00 Add to cartLavishly illustrated volume revealing the intricacies of a 1742 map of the cosmos.
The expansive and intricate Atlas Coelestis, created by Johann Doppelmayr in 1742, set out to record everything know- Author: Sparrow, Giles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 022682411X
- Language: English
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The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
$25.00 Read moreA unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz.
On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosiv- Author: Gradowski, Zalmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022663678X
- Language: English
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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition
$38.33 Read moreSince it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called “remission society” of those who s… [more below]
- Author: Frank, Arthur W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 28 2013
- ISBN10: 022600497X
- Language: English
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The Upstate
$18.00 Read morePoetry that sings of southern Appalachian beauty and crisis.
Set in a landscape of red sunsets and wildfire smoke, Queen Anne’s lace on the roadsides, and toxic chemicals in the watershed, Lindsay Tu- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Turner, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0226828646
- Language: English
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Fascinating Shells: An Introduction to 121 of the World’s Most Wonderful Mollusks
$22.50 Add to cartA New Scientist Best Book of the Year
Beautiful photographs of stunning shells from London’s Natural History Museum, home to one of the most significant and comprehensive collections in the world. C- Author: Salvador, Andreia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226819132
- Language: English
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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
$27.50 Read moreA must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.
This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn’s unfinished book, The Plur- Author: Kuhn, Thomas S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0226822745
- Language: English
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Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice
$25.00 Read moreA former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system.
As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friend… [more below]- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Goodman, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826236
- Language: English
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The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
$19.00 Add to cart“We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that … [more below]
- Author: Ansell MD, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 022679671X
- Language: English
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The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
$22.00 Read moreAn unforgettable exploration of the natural world and the concept of biodiversity–what it is, why it matters, and how we as individuals can work to preserve it.
We are now living in an environmental- Author: Antonelli, Alexandre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0226821870
- Language: English
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Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
$27.50 Read moreA New Scientist Best Book of the Year
From an acclaimed botanist and artist, a thrilling and beautifully illustrated expedition around the globe in search of the world’s most extraordinary plants.- Author: Thorogood, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823539
- Language: English
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The Oldest Living Things in the World
$65.00 Read moreThe Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograp… [more below]
- Author: Sussman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2014
- ISBN10: 022605750X
- Language: English
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Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps
$70.00 Add to cartLavishly illustrated with full-color geological maps, tables of strata, geological cross-sections, photographs, and fossil illustrations from the archives of the Oxford University Museum of Natural Hi… [more below]
- Author: Oxford University Museum of Natural Hist
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 022675488X
- Language: English
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Song and Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance
$22.00 Read moreAward-winning singer Ian Bostridge examines iconic works of Western classical music to reflect on the relationship between performer and audience.
Like so many performers, renowned tenor Ian Bostridg- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Bostridge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022680948X
- Language: English
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Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
$41.67 Read moreFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.
A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2022
- ISBN10: 022665723X
- Language: English
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Rethinking Hypothyroidism: Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do
$22.00 Add to cartIn this primer for patients, their families, and their doctors, a leading physician and scientist explains why the standard treatment for hypothyroidism fails many–and offers an empowering call for c… [more below]
- Author: Bianco MD, Antonio C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823164
- Language: English
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
$38.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and it… [more below]
- Author: Davies, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 022638957X
- Language: English
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
$21.00 Read moreIn 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Beate Sirota
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2014
- ISBN10: 022613251X
- Language: English
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The Orange Tree
$18.00 Read moreDebut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration.
Dong Li’s The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and- Series: Phoenix Poets
- Author: Li, Dong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826163
- Language: English
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Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
$29.00 Read moreScientifically 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 04 2022
- ISBN10: 022678925X
- Language: English
