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Our annual sale is one of the biggest university press book sales in the country. Every year we go through our overstock inventory and offer deep discounts on hundreds of books in subjects like history, fiction, art, science, travel, cooking, and more. Shop below or download a copy of our PDF catalog to get these amazing deals on scholarly and trade titles from the University of Chicago Press and our distributed publishers. Hurry! Supplies are limited on some books.

Featured Books

Volcanoes and Wine

From Pompeii to Napa

Charles Frankel

Plant Families

A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists

Ross Bayton

Feminism

A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement

Deborah Cameron

Matisse

The Books

Louise Rogers Lalaurie

How to Grow a Human

Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

Philip Ball

Catalog Titles

30% Off Recent and Bestselling Books

    The English Actor
    Pinocchio
    Wanderers
    Way Makers
    24 Hours with Gaspar
    How to Think like a Philosopher
    A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti
    Beautiful Experiments
    The Book of Minds
    How Life Works
    The Huxleys
    Inventing Photography
    The Lost Subways of North America
    Deep Water
    The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Second Edition
    American Born
    Hayek
    Verified
    Chicago Reflected
    A Short History of Finland
    Woven Histories
    Is There God after Prince?
    "The Girl in the Window" and Other True Tales
    The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants
    Breakfast Cereal
    Botany of the Kitchen Garden
    Napoleon at Peace
    The Lost Princess
    George Meléndez Wright
    The Lamb Cycle
    The Big Jones Cookbook
    Midwestern Food
    Presidents and Their Books
    The Cult of Creativity
    Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711–1851)
    Everyone against Us
    Country and Midwestern
    Pilgrims 2.0
    Stethoscope
    Bird Day
    When the News Broke
    A Book of Noises
    TL;DR
    Audubon at Sea
    The Science of Reading
    The Two-Parent Privilege
    In Levittown’s Shadow
    Ocean Bestiary
    30 April 1945
    The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook
    The Serpent Coiled in Naples
    The Kew Gardens Cookbook
    The Book by Design
    In Defense of Processed Food
    The Capital Order
    City of Newsmen
    The Next Supercontinent
    American Imperialist
    The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America
    Shells
    Sins of the Shovel
    Arc of Feeling
    The Portraitist
    Coconut
    The Apple II Age
    The Book of Snakes
    Mountains of Fire
    Fish and Chips
    Aesop’s Fables
    Fit Nation
    Who’s a Good Dog?
    Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
    Hitler’s Tyranny
    The Nation That Never Was
    Animated Advertising
    Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
    Avian Illuminations
    You Had a Job for Life
    Ukraine
    The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction
    Vincent’s Arles
    The Greatest Shows on Earth
    The Pirates’ Code
    The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio
    Handwritten
    Dream Street
    The Jazz Loft Project
    The Art of Verbal Warfare
    Phenomena
    Astray
    The Chieftain and the Chair
    The Philosopher of Palo Alto
    Cod
    Dinner in Rome
    Hilma af Klint
    Radicals and Rogues
    The Black Ceiling
    Nuclear Minds

    Ancient History

      The Aztecs
      The Sumerians
      Gladius
      Lines of Thought
      The Goths
      The Fires of Lust
      Giza and the Pyramids
      History of the Persian Empire
      The Sarpedon Krater
      Palmyra
      The Making of a King
      Caesar

      Botany and Gardening

        Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World
        The Book of Orchids
        Orchid
        Ancient Oaks
        Roots to Seeds
        Sunflowers
        The Botanical Adventures of Joseph Banks
        Kew’s Big Trees
        Remarkable Trees
        Hidden Natural Histories: Herbs
        The Wardian Case
        Hidden Natural Histories: Trees
        Hybrid
        Plant Evolution
        The Book of Seeds
        Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
        Cactus
        The Domestic Herbal
        Amber Waves

        Economics

          Big Med
          Capital in the Nineteenth Century
          Down and Out in the New Economy
          Bankrupt in America
          Insurance Era
          Clashing over Commerce
          The Power of Productivity
          The Mismeasure of Progress
          House of Debt
          Fully Grown
          Accounting for Capitalism

          Law and Political Science

            Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus
            The Toddler in Chief
            How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
            Citizens of Everywhere
            Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
            Confident Pluralism
            Crisis of the House Divided
            Leadership
            The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
            The Border Within

            Math, Physical Science, and Technology

              The Greatest Adventure
              Asteroids
              Five Photons
              Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth
              Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms
              Selected Papers on Computer Languages
              Selected Papers on Computer Science
              Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms
              Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics
              Selected Papers on Fun and Games
              The Moon
              Defending AI Research
              Mars
              Unearthing Fermi’s Geophysics
              Saturn
              Smart Machines and Service Work

              Military History

                St. Louis and the Great War
                Serving the Reich
                The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road
                The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!
                Flashpoint Trieste
                WWII
                The Great Cat and Dog Massacre
                Secrets in a Dead Fish
                Jews in Nazi Berlin
                28 June
                The Consequences of the Peace
                The Makers of the Modern World (complete series)

                Social History

                  The Wig
                  Imaginary Cities
                  The White Devil
                  Dispatches from Dystopia
                  Storyworlds of Robin Hood
                  The Mafia
                  Power and Time
                  Lines of Thought
                  Revenge
                  Running
                  Equestrian Cultures
                  Higher and Colder
                  Ugliness
                  Our Musicals, Ourselves
                  Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages
                  Trolls
                  Blue Mythologies
                  The Chattering Mind
                  Empires and Anarchies
                  Show People
                  The Phoenix
                  Uncountable
                  Radio
                  The Waterless Sea
                  Shoes
                  Hat
                  Insomnia
                  Cataclysms
                  The Legendary Detective
                  Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
                  Secrets of the Centenarians

                  European and British History

                    Serving the Reich
                    Greece
                    Undertones of War
                    The First World War
                    The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!
                    Marvelous Possessions
                    Taking Leave, Taking Liberties
                    Flashpoint Trieste
                    Secrets in a Dead Fish
                    Dialogue with Death
                    The Ghosts of Berlin
                    The Streets of Europe
                    North Sea Crossings
                    Paths of Fire
                    The Man Who Stole Himself
                    Rommel
                    D-Day Through French Eyes
                    Sheer Misery
                    The Makers of the Modern World (complete series)
                    The Europe Illusion
                    Athene Palace

                    Chicago History

                      Prague
                      Gilded Youth
                      Time Travelers
                      Unspeakable
                      Drink Map of Oxford
                      The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain
                      The Curious World of Dickens
                      The Secret History of English Spas
                      The Prague of Charles IV, 1316 - 1378
                      Vivat Rex!
                      The Worm in the Apple

                      World History

                        Mapping the Middle East
                        The Mercantile Effect
                        China
                        Contested Lands
                        The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
                        The Last Colonial Massacre
                        The Image Debate
                        The Selden Map of China
                        Art, Trade, and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond
                        Lost Maps of the Caliphs
                        A Historical Atlas of Tibet

                        American History

                          The American Robot
                          Murder in New Orleans
                          Captain Joseph Boyce and the 1st Missouri Infantry, CSA
                          The Reckless Decade
                          Hope and Scorn
                          Chicago by the Book
                          Machines of Youth
                          Troublemakers
                          The Encyclopedia of Chicago
                          Newsprint Metropolis
                          God’s Businessmen
                          Supersizing Urban America
                          Conspiracies of Conspiracies
                          Never a City So Real
                          American Girls in Red Russia
                          A Conspiratorial Life
                          The Education of Betsey Stockton
                          Blood Runs Green
                          The Beat Cop
                          Slaughterhouse
                          Who Freed the Slaves?
                          The Polarizers
                          Steam City
                          Newcomers
                          The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
                          Ties That Bound
                          Sovereign of the Market
                          A Drop of Treason
                          Wives Not Slaves
                          We Have Not a Government
                          Running the Numbers
                          Pushing Cool
                          Renewal

                          Cartography and Transportation

                            A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
                            Mapping Nature across the Americas
                            A New Map of Wonders
                            Picturing America
                            The Writer’s Map
                            How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition
                            A History of America in 100 Maps
                            The Atlas of Boston History
                            Globes
                            Maps and Civilization
                            Time in Maps

                            Travel

                              London
                              Berlin for Jews
                              Beyond the Map
                              Love of Country
                              Asian Absences
                              The Whales Know
                              Churchill’s Britain
                              An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo
                              Madrid
                              Smile of the Midsummer Night
                              The Ancient Shore
                              Oxford Botanic Garden
                              The Appian Way
                              Jewish Journeys
                              The Cruel Way
                              Mount Sinai
                              Black Earth
                              Troubled Water
                              Salzburg
                              Chaucer’s Italy
                              Turkey Rediscovered
                              An Armchair Traveller’s History of Apulia
                              An Armchair Traveller’s History of Cambridge
                              An Armchair Traveller’s History of Istanbul
                              Siena
                              The Ends of the Earth

                              Food and Beverage

                                Vanilla
                                Sausage
                                Brandy
                                Strong, Sweet and Dry
                                Land and Wine
                                Volcanoes and Wine
                                Mustard
                                Jam, Jelly and Marmalade
                                Tea, Coffee & Chocolate
                                Soda and Fizzy Drinks
                                Honey
                                Melon
                                Avocado
                                Salmon
                                Oishii
                                Dining Out
                                The Culinarians
                                The Kosher Baker
                                Tequila

                                Art

                                  The Surrealism Reader
                                  Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time
                                  Vietnam Zippos
                                  Learning from Madness
                                  Creative Gatherings
                                  What Is Paleolithic Art?
                                  Outliers and American Vanguard Art
                                  Belonging and Betrayal
                                  Like Andy Warhol
                                  Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II
                                  Warhol’s Working Class
                                  Jan Hendrix: Paradise Lost
                                  Perfect Wave
                                  Vive les Satiristes!
                                  Matisse
                                  Raphael and the Antique
                                  The Simple Truth
                                  Hans Holbein
                                  Portrait of the Artist
                                  The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece
                                  Myself and My Aims
                                  Michelangelo’s Painting
                                  Michelangelo’s Sculpture
                                  Renaissance and Baroque Art
                                  Pow! Right in the Eye!
                                  Czech Modern Painters

                                  Design and Photography

                                    Vivian Maier
                                    Through the Lens of Janet Stone
                                    The Suit
                                    The Camera Does the Rest
                                    Gloves
                                    Ghost Image
                                    Little Black Dress
                                    Menswear
                                    Harlem

                                    Architecture

                                      The Architecture of Maritz & Young
                                      The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame
                                      The World the Trains Made
                                      The Porch
                                      Burnham of Chicago
                                      Temple of Science
                                      Improbable Libraries
                                      Terror and Wonder
                                      St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle
                                      The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
                                      Carson Pirie Scott

                                      Philosophy

                                        America’s Philosopher
                                        The Death Penalty, Volume II
                                        Geschlecht III
                                        Theory and Practice
                                        Thinking Out of Sight
                                        Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict
                                        How Socrates Became Socrates
                                        A Fragile Life
                                        A Significant Life
                                        Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering
                                        Aristotle

                                        History of Science

                                          Curiosity
                                          How to Grow a Human
                                          Patterns in Nature
                                          The Sounding of the Whale
                                          Theodore Roosevelt in the Field
                                          The Epochs of Nature
                                          Nonsense on Stilts
                                          Volcanoes
                                          The Republic of Color
                                          Cataclysms
                                          The Chemical Age

                                          Health

                                            Immunization
                                            The Beautiful Cure
                                            Emotionally Disturbed
                                            Making Jet Engines in World War II
                                            The TVs of Tomorrow
                                            Those They Called Idiots
                                            Fear of Food
                                            How to Make a Vaccine
                                            Plague Years
                                            Hearing Happiness
                                            Restricted Data

                                            Life Science

                                              Platypus Matters
                                              Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
                                              Diamonds in the Marsh
                                              Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders
                                              Crab
                                              Mole
                                              Swordfish
                                              Polar Bear
                                              Bats
                                              The Accidental Species
                                              Across the Bridge
                                              Stung!
                                              Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish
                                              Wasp
                                              Red Leviathan
                                              The Lost Species
                                              Animals’ Best Friends
                                              Evolving God
                                              Personalities on the Plate
                                              Glacier
                                              America’s Snake
                                              The Dawn of the Deed
                                              Seahorses
                                              Rainbows
                                              The Science of Walking
                                              Nature Fast and Nature Slow
                                              The Dancing Bees
                                              Fishes of the Open Ocean
                                              Zebra
                                              Turtle
                                              Human
                                              The Sloth Lemur’s Song
                                              Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
                                              Plankton
                                              Dinner with Darwin
                                              Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants
                                              Kingfisher
                                              Body by Darwin
                                              From the Seashore to the Seafloor
                                              Squid
                                              Hippopotamus
                                              Jellyfish
                                              Darwin’s Cathedral
                                              Wild Boar

                                              Science

                                                The Demon in the Machine
                                                Three Steps to the Universe
                                                How We See the Sky
                                                Fermilab
                                                Mars
                                                Cosmos
                                                The Transmutations of Chymistry
                                                Mercury
                                                Saturn
                                                The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey
                                                Everyday Mathematics for Parents

                                                Music

                                                  The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
                                                  Amplified
                                                  Beethoven’s French Piano
                                                  Jazz Worlds/World Jazz
                                                  Music Lessons
                                                  The Missouri Harmony Songbook
                                                  The Art of the Blues
                                                  O Sing unto the Lord
                                                  Beethoven’s Symphonies
                                                  Richard Wagner
                                                  Bitten by the Blues
                                                  The Eighth
                                                  I’d Fight the World
                                                  The Haydn Economy
                                                  Electric Wizards
                                                  A Band with Built-In Hate
                                                  Hearing Beethoven
                                                  Say No to the Devil

                                                  Film

                                                    Reinventing Hollywood
                                                    The Academy and the Award
                                                    The Great Movies IV
                                                    A Place for Us

                                                    Biographies

                                                      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
                                                      Charles Darwin
                                                      Harold Rosenberg
                                                      The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
                                                      Tazmamart
                                                      Jack London
                                                      Henri Matisse
                                                      Gertrude Stein
                                                      Joseph Conrad
                                                      Thomas Mann
                                                      King of the World
                                                      Rosa Luxemburg
                                                      Being Somebody and Black Besides
                                                      Coco Chanel
                                                      Victor Hugo
                                                      Henry David Thoreau
                                                      Lumumba
                                                      Leo Tolstoy

                                                      Education and Social Sciences

                                                        Mama Might Be Better Off Dead
                                                        Becoming a Marihuana User
                                                        Feminism
                                                        The Other Boston Busing Story
                                                        Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves
                                                        The Insane Chicago Way
                                                        Love Stories
                                                        Heat Wave
                                                        Crossing
                                                        Pain and Shock in America
                                                        The Torture Letters

                                                        Literary Studies

                                                          Shaggy Muses
                                                          The Daily Jane Austen
                                                          A Fox for All Seasons Journal
                                                          The Book Lovers’ Anthology
                                                          Jane Austen, Ada Lovelace, Mary Shelley Handwriting Notebook Set
                                                          London Map Journal
                                                          Conversations, Volume 2
                                                          Rachel Owen
                                                          Shakespeare’s Rome
                                                          Evelyn Waugh’s Oxford
                                                          The Daily Charles Dickens
                                                          The Daily Sherlock Holmes
                                                          Iphigenia among the Taurians
                                                          The Invention of Oscar Wilde
                                                          This Perpetual Fight
                                                          Palace of Books
                                                          Outside Literary Studies
                                                          On War and Writing
                                                          Looking for The Stranger
                                                          Ahab’s Rolling Sea
                                                          And Bid Him Sing
                                                          The Daily Thomas Paine
                                                          The Poet and the Publisher
                                                          The Science of Life and Death in "Frankenstein"
                                                          Who Reads Poetry
                                                          The Ruins Lesson
                                                          Some Words of Jane Austen
                                                          The Aeneid

                                                          Fiction

                                                            Tomb(e)
                                                            Porcelain
                                                            Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light
                                                            Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
                                                            On the Royal Road
                                                            Land of Cockaigne
                                                            Only a Lodger . . . And Hardly That
                                                            études
                                                            Hallelujah Station and Other Stories
                                                            We’re Still at War
                                                            Carry You

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