University of Pittsburgh Press
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Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science
$35.00 Add to cartWinner, 2022 PSA Women’s Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science Award
The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first- Series: Science, Values, and the Public
- Author: Goldenberg, Maya J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966905
- Language: English
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The Axion Esti
$20.00 Add to cartThe Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodoraki… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Elytis, Odysseus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 11 1974
- ISBN10: 0822953188
- Language: English
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In Parachutes Descending: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartIn Parachutes Descending follows the speaker’s decision to leave her Bostonian husband for Jane, a San Franciscan artist, while charting the sensual consequences of our bodily entanglements. These poe… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Welch, Tana Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967200
- Language: English
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From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition
$30.00 Add to cartHow Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century
In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania’s representati- Author: Brodt, Zachary L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0822947919
- Language: English
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The Art Of Drowning
$20.00 Add to cartThis collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the art form of the calendar pinup to blues music.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0822955679
- Language: English
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Questions about Angels: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartBilly Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, “I have never before felt possessive about a p… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0822956985
- Language: English
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Fields of Play: Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City
$28.00 Add to cartA Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity
Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. Whi- Author: Hayashi, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0822947846
- Language: English
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Creature: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWritten during the last five years of the poet’s father’s life, Creature is a book about love, destruction, and the self, all standing in relation to family and the natural world. The poems themselves… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: de la O., Marsha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967235
- Language: English
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Bringing the Shovel Down
$18.00 Add to cartBringing the Shovel Down is a re-imagination of the violent mythologies of state and power.
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0822961350
- Language: English
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Fata Morgana: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartFata Morgana mingles personal experience, history, mythology, politics, and natural science to explore the relationships of conception and perception, the self finding its way through a physical and s
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Shepherd, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0822959518
- Language: English
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The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon
$33.00 Add to cartGiven the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in th
- Author: Starzl, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: November 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0822958368
- Language: English
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Little Pharma: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartThe title Little Pharma is both a doppelg nger and a cri de coeur: as the poet’s dreamlike double, the character Little Pharma navigates the murky channels of the hospital and clinic, the borderlands … [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Kolbe, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966727
- Language: English
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Trailer Park Psalms: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Trailer Park Psalms traces the speaker’s journey beyond his boyhood trailer park, through an American landscape marked by violence–from a gas lin- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Dustin, Ryler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 082296712X
- Language: English
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The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town
$24.95 Add to cartIn October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, the town’s main industry was steel and zinc mills-mi… [more below]
- Author: McPhee, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0822966719
- Language: English
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Youghiogheny: Appalachian River, Revised Edition
$24.95 Add to cartFirst Published in 1984, this 40th Anniversary Edition of Youghiogheny is Revised and Expanded with a Beautiful New Cover
Turbulent rapids and wild shorelines of the Youghiogheny River highlight nat- Author: Palmer, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 082296709X
- Language: English
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Now You Know It All
$17.00 Add to cartPoised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery–and decision. Set in small-town North Carolina, or featuring eager Southern
- Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
- Author: Pearson, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967111
- Language: English
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Out of This Furnace
$25.00 Add to cartOut of This Furnace is Thomas Bell’s most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family — the Dobrejcaks — still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplish
- Series: Pitt Paperback; 120
- Author: Bell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 30 1976
- ISBN10: 0822952734
- Language: English
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Gumbo YA YA: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWinner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual PoetryWinner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry)Finalist, 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauld… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Marie, Aurielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966662
- Language: English
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Horsepower: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartPriest’s debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational. Across the book’s three sequences, we find the black-girl spea… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Priest, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0822966190
- Language: English
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It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories
$17.00 Add to cartWinner, 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters
Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and- Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
- Author: Reeves, Ramona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967103
- Language: English
