Recent and forthcoming
general interest books

from the University of Chicago Press

Our latest general interest books

• Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
  Mark V. Barrow, Jr.  •  Read an excerpt.
• Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
  Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner
• Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New
  Adam Biro  •  Read an excerpt.
• In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition
  Gendun Chopel
• Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers: & Other Unusual Relationships
  Marty Crump  •  Read an excerpt.
• Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America
  Lee Alan Dugatkin  •  Read an excerpt.
• Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting
  Dietmar Elger  •  Read an excerpt.
• "Do You Know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action
  Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker  •  Read an excerpt.
• Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City
  Liam T. A. Ford  •  See a gallery of photographs from the book.
• Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild
  Michael Forsberg  •  See a gallery of photographs from the book and sample pages in PDF format.
• Saving Alma Mater: A Rescue Plan for America’s Public Universities
  James C. Garland  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon
  Philip Graham  •  Read an excerpt.
• Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
  Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn  •  See a birthstone gallery from the book and sample pages in PDF format.
• Cougar: Ecology and Conservation
  Edited by Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri
• Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
  Adrian Johns  •  Read an excerpt.
• Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding
  Noel Kingsbury
• Breeding Bio Insecurity: How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure
  Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester
• Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
  Fulvio Melia  •  Read an excerpt.
• Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation
  Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz  •  Read the chapter on Kristallnacht in PDF format.
• Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth
  Alanna Mitchell
• Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos
  Paul Murdin  •  See a gallery of photographs from the book and sample pages in PDF format.
• From Mesopotamia to Iraq: A Concise History
  Hans J. Nissen
• Chicago: A Biography
  Dominic A. Pacyga  •  See a gallery of photographs from the book.
• Fishes of the Open Ocean: A Natural History and Illustrated Guide
  Julian Pepperell  •  See sample pages in PDF format.
• The Perils of Global Legalism
  Eric A. Posner  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
  Harriet Ritvo
• The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
  Edited by Richard A. Shweder  •  See a website for the book.
• Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University
  Gaye Tuchman
• The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
  Laura Dassow Walls  •  Read an excerpt.

General interest books now in paperback

• Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
  Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll  •  Read an excerpt.
• Obsession: A History
  Lennard J. Davis  •  Read an interview with the author. Listen to an audio interview.
• Nice Guys Finish Last
  Leo Durocher with Ed Linn  •  Read an excerpt.
• Scorsese by Ebert
  Roger Ebert  •  Read an excerpt.
• Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
  Robert Pogue Harrison  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples
  Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller  •  Read an excerpt
• Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West
  Erin Hogan  •  Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
• Collections of Nothing
  William Davies King  •  Read an excerpt and an essay by the author.
• Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
  Seth Lerer  •  Read an excerpt.
• A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
  George E. Lewis  •  Read an excerpt.
• Imperial City: Rome under Napoleon
  Susan Vandiver Nicassio
• Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic
  Ingrid D. Rowland
• Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
  Anne Whiston Spirn  •  See an illustrated excerpt.
• The Handle: A Parker Novel
  The Rare Coin Score: A Parker Novel
  The Seventh: A Parker Novel
  Richard Stark  •  Read an interview with the author.
• Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History
  Jan R. Van Meter  •  Read some contemporary slogans that we'll remember and listen to an audio interview.

Forthcoming general interest books

• Bulletproof Feathers: How Science Uses Nature’s Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology
  Edited by Robert Allen  •  See sample pages in PDF format.
• The Atlas of World Hunger
  Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson
• In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition
  Gendun Chopel
• Duke Ellington’s America
  Harvey G. Cohen
• Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism
  Sebastian Edwards
• Last Words of the Executed
  Robert K. Elder
• Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
  Claude S. Fischer  •  Read an excerpt.
• What Is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism
  Jack Fuller
• Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
  Reginald Gibbons
• Architecture under Construction
  Stanley Greenberg
• The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells
  M. G. Harasewych and Fabio Moretzsohn  •  See sample pages in PDF format.
• The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists
  Edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner
• Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials
  Michael Kammen
• Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
  Edited by Oliver Lubrich
• No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
  Mark Monmonier
• The Powers That Be: Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond
  Scott L. Montgomery
• The Boy on the Beach: Building Community through Play
  Vivian Gussin Paley  •  Read an excerpt.
• Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
  Massimo Pigliucci
• The Wagon and Other Stories from the City
  Martin Preib
• Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers: Fourth Edition
  Kate L. Turabian