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Featured Books

Ahab’s Rolling Sea

A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

Richard J. King

Prague

A City and Its River

Katerina Becková

Patty’s Got a Gun

Patricia Hearst in 1970s America

William Graebner

Gladius

The World of the Roman Soldier

Guy de la Bédoyère

Catalog Titles

Ancient Studies and Classical Thought

    Tiber
    The Barbarians
    Gladius
    A History of Trust in Ancient Greece
    How Socrates Became Socrates
    Giza and the Pyramids
    The Greeks
    The Persians
    Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory
    Oedipus and the Sphinx
    Oedipus the King
    The Aeneid
    The Making of a King

    Architecture, Design, and Photography

      Dandyism in the Age of Revolution
      The Flowering Desert
      Circus Girl
      Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park
      The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
      A Box of Photographs
      Burnham of Chicago
      Vintage Advertising
      Erich Lessing
      Picturing Empire
      Art-Nouveau Prague

      Biography and Memoir

        Mahatma Gandhi
        Limited by Body Habitus
        Fidel Castro
        Assassin of Youth
        Music at Midnight
        Anarchy’s Brief Summer
        Robert Schumann
        A Small Door Set in Concrete
        Thomas Mann
        Susan Sontag
        Langston Hughes
        Virginia Woolf
        Georgia O’Keeffe
        A Life
        Simone Weil

        Botany and Gardening

          Pollination Power
          A Portable Latin for Gardeners
          Lessons from the Great Gardeners
          Geranium
          Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World
          Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers
          Cannabis
          Sex on the Kitchen Table
          Orchid
          Tulip
          Seeds
          Gardening with Perennials
          Extraordinary Orchids
          Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery
          A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools
          Pine
          The Botanical Treasury
          Discoveries in the Garden
          Plant Evolution
          Prague
          Apple
          Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
          Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs, and Poisons
          Deceptive Beauties

          British and European History

            London
            Greece
            Prague
            The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road
            A Violent Peace
            A Few Planes for China
            Unspeakable
            The First World War
            Lies, Passions, and Illusions
            Ruling Culture
            The Peace That Never Was
            Flashpoint Trieste
            Backpack Ambassadors
            The Great Cat and Dog Massacre
            Nemesis
            A History of Crete
            The Man Who Stole Himself
            Rus–Ukraine–Russia
            Sheer Misery
            Fragments of Lives
            Spartakiads
            The Makers of the Modern World (complete series)
            Versailles 1919
            England’s Great Transformation

            Conservation and Earth Science

              Air
              Coevolution of Life on Hosts
              Don’t Look, Don’t Touch, Don’t Eat
              The Mantle of the Earth
              Ice
              Lightning
              The Sun
              Desert
              The Future of Conservation in America
              Dragons’ Teeth and Thunderstones
              Peak Oil
              Dinner with Darwin

              Economics

                The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
                Risk Topography
                Big Med
                Well Worth Saving
                U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy
                After the Flood
                Clashing over Commerce
                Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
                Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich
                House of Debt
                Selling Power
                Foxconned

                Education and Social Science

                  The Secret Lives of Teachers
                  Aspiring Adults Adrift
                  Housekeeping by Design
                  Feminisms
                  Paying the Price
                  Charter School City
                  Experimental Games
                  Off to College
                  Renegade Dreams
                  Empowering Science and Mathematics Education in Urban Schools
                  Fútbol in the Park
                  Creativity on Demand

                  Fun for All Ages

                    Once Upon a Playground
                    Postcards of Lost Royals
                    N Is for Nursery
                    What Is Round?
                    A Museum Miscellany
                    Soldier Field
                    Cycling Science
                    The Rain Puddle
                    Whale’s Way
                    The Hungry Goat
                    Tinker to Evers to Chance
                    The March Wind
                    Golf Science

                    Law and Political Science

                      Changing Their Minds?
                      Why Washington Won’t Work
                      The Wartime President
                      Confident Pluralism
                      Strategic Party Government
                      Democracy and Dysfunction
                      Campaign Finance and American Democracy
                      The Congressional Endgame
                      Justice Scalia
                      Secular Faith
                      The Politics of Petulance

                      Math and Physical Science

                        The Transmutations of Chymistry

                        Recent Hardcovers Half Off

                          Music’s Monisms
                          The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
                          The Myth of the Imperial Presidency
                          The Economic Other
                          Geschlecht III
                          How Schools Really Matter
                          Troublemakers
                          The Porch
                          Diagramming Devotion
                          Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
                          The Eighth
                          The Streets of Europe
                          The Mismeasure of Progress
                          King of the World
                          The Genesis Quest
                          Mental Traveler
                          Keats’s Odes
                          Dangerous Earth
                          Artist as Author
                          Myself and My Aims
                          Shoddy
                          Democracy Declined
                          A Drop of Treason
                          The Opening of the American Mind
                          Running the Numbers
                          Hearing Happiness
                          Amber Waves

                          Recent and Bestselling Books

                            The Hidden Universe
                            Platypus Matters
                            Reynard the Fox
                            Outrageous!
                            The Book of Minds
                            The Elements
                            The Huxleys
                            Tazmamart
                            Russia as Empire
                            Soviets in Space
                            A Fan’s Life
                            Get in the Game
                            A Short History of Beijing
                            Shadowland
                            My Three Dads
                            Deep South
                            The Academy and the Award
                            Where Light in Darkness Lies
                            Power in the Wild
                            How the Clinic Made Gender
                            Gossip Men
                            Geometry of Grief
                            Egyptomania
                            The Nutmeg’s Curse
                            A Short History of Tomb-Raiding
                            Life and Research
                            Stethoscope
                            Doping
                            The Federal Reserve
                            Audubon at Sea
                            Out of the Depths
                            The Bonds of Inequality
                            The Worst Military Leaders in History
                            Red Leviathan
                            Who Is the City For?
                            Gen Z, Explained
                            Russia Container
                            In the Name of Plants
                            The Serpent Coiled in Naples
                            Edward Hopper
                            Afghanistan
                            Soda and Fizzy Drinks
                            Defying Hitler
                            Tropical Arctic
                            City of Newsmen
                            Sub Culture
                            Lydia Maria Child
                            We Are All Whalers
                            Unworking
                            Troubled Water
                            The Portraitist
                            Coconut
                            The Education of Betsey Stockton
                            The Beat Cop
                            On Not Knowing
                            Strata
                            Fish and Chips
                            Aesop’s Fables
                            Fit Nation
                            Great Literary Friendships
                            Homer
                            Redefining Geek
                            Hitler’s Tyranny
                            The Sloth Lemur’s Song
                            The Nation That Never Was
                            Astrotopia
                            Fascinating Shells
                            The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
                            The Pocket Epicurean
                            Flowers!
                            Trees
                            The Art of Verbal Warfare
                            Phenomena
                            Every Goddamn Day
                            Tutankhamun
                            Chasing Plants
                            The Worm in the Apple
                            Dinner in Rome
                            From the Seashore to the Seafloor
                            Hilma af Klint
                            Pow! Right in the Eye!
                            Eleven-Inch
                            War and American Life
                            Victories Never Last

                            Reference and Literary Studies

                              Alice in Space
                              Pitch of Poetry
                              A Conspiracy of Ravens
                              Chicago by the Book
                              Hyphens & Hashtags*
                              A Library Miscellany
                              The Real McCoy
                              The Flash Press
                              Immersion
                              The Truth about Language
                              We Are Not Amused
                              The Daily Charles Dickens
                              Jane Austen’s Names
                              Elizabeth I
                              Improbable Libraries
                              How to Write a BA Thesis, Second Edition
                              London in Quotations
                              Does Science Need a Global Language?
                              Who Reads Poetry
                              Some Words of Jane Austen
                              But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
                              Just the Job

                              Social History

                                The Wig
                                Imaginary Cities
                                The White Devil
                                A History of Feelings
                                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
                                Phantom Islands
                                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 History

                                  Greece
                                  A Violent Peace
                                  Ruling Culture
                                  Sheer Misery

                                  World History

                                    Palestinian Art
                                    Revolution
                                    The Water Kingdom
                                    Two Years in East Asia
                                    Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell
                                    The Last Colonial Massacre
                                    A Story of Ruins
                                    My First Trip to China
                                    After the Nobel Prize 1989-1994
                                    A Historical Atlas of Tibet
                                    Tokyo Before Tokyo

                                    American History

                                      Abigail and John Adams
                                      How States Shaped Postwar America
                                      Liberty Power
                                      Follow Your Conscience
                                      Frontier Seaport
                                      Hollywood in Havana
                                      The Cycling City
                                      The Importance of Being Urban
                                      Freedom’s Ballot
                                      Patty’s Got a Gun
                                      The TVs of Tomorrow
                                      The Encyclopedia of Chicago
                                      Newsprint Metropolis
                                      Accidental Pluralism
                                      Outside the Gates of Eden
                                      Taking Leave, Taking Liberties
                                      Insurance Era
                                      Supersizing Urban America
                                      My Dear Molly
                                      Conspiracies of Conspiracies
                                      The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism
                                      After Redlining
                                      This Radical Land
                                      American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow
                                      Building a Revolutionary State
                                      That’s the Way It Is
                                      Steam City
                                      New York Recentered
                                      The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
                                      Chicago’s Block Clubs
                                      Wives Not Slaves
                                      Remembering Emmett Till
                                      The Democratic Surround
                                      The Angel in the Marketplace
                                      Crap

                                      Cartography and Geography

                                        A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
                                        Cartophilia
                                        Picturing America
                                        The History of Cartography, Volume 6
                                        How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition
                                        The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
                                        Rethinking America’s Highways
                                        Maps of Paradise
                                        Globes
                                        Maps and Civilization
                                        Time in Maps

                                        Places and Travel

                                          Palermo
                                          Ulaanbaatar beyond Water and Grass
                                          Berlin for Jews
                                          Elsewhere
                                          Mexico City
                                          Churchill’s Britain
                                          An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland
                                          Whereabouts
                                          Food on the Move
                                          Beijing
                                          The Appian Way
                                          Pilgrimage to Dollywood
                                          Chicago
                                          Black Earth
                                          Salzburg
                                          It’s a Living
                                          Prague
                                          An Armchair Traveller’s History of Apulia
                                          Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
                                          Traveling in Place
                                          Siena
                                          Floating on a Malayan Breeze
                                          The Ends of the Earth

                                          Food

                                            Sausage
                                            Barbecue
                                            The Story of Soy
                                            Volcanoes and Wine
                                            Bountiful Empire
                                            Corn
                                            Edible Memory
                                            Moonshine
                                            A Rich and Fertile Land
                                            Rice
                                            Salmon
                                            Pineapple
                                            Pork
                                            The Kosher Baker
                                            Lemon
                                            Sauces
                                            Lobster
                                            How We Fell in Love with Italian Food

                                            Art

                                              The Surrealism Reader
                                              Abstraction in Reverse
                                              Gerhard Richter
                                              Dogs in Art
                                              Perfect Wave
                                              Photography, Trace, and Trauma
                                              Oscar Wilde Prefigured
                                              The Global Work of Art
                                              Accounts and Drawings from Underground
                                              The Artfulness of Death in Africa
                                              The Simple Truth
                                              Andy Warhol, Publisher
                                              Hannah Ryggen
                                              Fragonard
                                              The Sexual Night
                                              Free as Gods
                                              Michelangelo’s Sculpture
                                              Renaissance and Baroque Art
                                              Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits
                                              Czech Modern Painters
                                              Street Art World
                                              Mexican Modernity

                                              Philosophy

                                                Biopower
                                                Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento
                                                The Government of Desire
                                                Thinking Out of Sight
                                                Creatively Undecided
                                                Artistic License
                                                Following Searle on Twitter
                                                Critique of Freedom
                                                Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict
                                                The Actual and the Rational
                                                A Philosophy of Dirt
                                                A Fragile Life
                                                Sovereignty, Inc.
                                                The Ashtray
                                                After the Beautiful
                                                Interanimations
                                                Two Thumbs Up
                                                Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering
                                                Rousseau’s Reader
                                                Action versus Contemplation
                                                Fashion
                                                The Moral Meaning of Nature

                                                History and Philosophy of Science

                                                  Curiosity
                                                  Darwin Deleted
                                                  Georg Forster
                                                  The Lost Species
                                                  The Dancing Bees
                                                  Poisonous Skies
                                                  Catastrophic Thinking
                                                  The Scientific Life
                                                  An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion
                                                  Appetite and Its Discontents

                                                  Science (General)

                                                    The Beautiful Cure
                                                    Animals’ Best Friends
                                                    We Are All Whalers

                                                    Life Sciences

                                                      The Longevity Seekers
                                                      Risky Medicine
                                                      Extreme Conservation
                                                      Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
                                                      Donkey
                                                      Diamonds in the Marsh
                                                      Hyena
                                                      The Sounding of the Whale
                                                      Llama
                                                      The Beautiful Cure
                                                      Global Flu and You
                                                      Rabbit
                                                      Seal
                                                      Waters of the World
                                                      Bats
                                                      All the Boats on the Ocean
                                                      Monkeytalk
                                                      Deer
                                                      Moth
                                                      Stung!
                                                      Critical Terms for Animal Studies
                                                      Call of the Blue
                                                      White Market Drugs
                                                      Ground Truth
                                                      Goat
                                                      RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR
                                                      Animals’ Best Friends
                                                      Personalities on the Plate
                                                      America’s Snake
                                                      The Lost Bird Project
                                                      After Preservation
                                                      Birds
                                                      Pig
                                                      We Are All Whalers
                                                      Owl
                                                      Elephant Don
                                                      Lions in the Balance
                                                      Sharks and People
                                                      Walden Warming
                                                      Dolphin
                                                      How to Make a Vaccine
                                                      Secrets of the Snout
                                                      Plankton
                                                      A Contagious Cause
                                                      The Cockroach Papers
                                                      The Long and the Short of It
                                                      Body by Darwin
                                                      Curious Creatures on Our Shores
                                                      City Creatures
                                                      The Way of Coyote
                                                      Why the Wheel Is Round
                                                      Ostrich
                                                      Swan
                                                      Tortoise

                                                      Mathematics and Physical Sciences

                                                        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

                                                          Duke Ellington’s America
                                                          Rave On
                                                          Curious and Modern Inventions
                                                          The Art of the Blues
                                                          Sound Knowledge
                                                          A Place for Us
                                                          Richard Wagner
                                                          Neil Young
                                                          The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley
                                                          The Beatles in Hamburg
                                                          Blowin’ Up
                                                          A Portrait in Four Movements
                                                          Nightingales in Berlin
                                                          Wherever the Sound Takes You
                                                          Let’s Make a Better World
                                                          Van Halen
                                                          Good Music
                                                          American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
                                                          Il trovatore
                                                          La traviata
                                                          Macbeth
                                                          Music/City
                                                          Say No to the Devil

                                                          Film and Performing Arts

                                                            The New Adventures of Don Quixote
                                                            Reinventing Hollywood
                                                            Staging History
                                                            Robert Altman
                                                            Overweight Sensation
                                                            The Great Movies IV
                                                            Herzog by Ebert
                                                            Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
                                                            Bigger, Brighter, Louder
                                                            Movies That Mattered
                                                            TV by Design

                                                            Fiction, Poetry, and Literature

                                                              Lost Mars
                                                              The Maze Maker
                                                              Heartland Calamitous
                                                              Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
                                                              Aristotle and Poetic Justice
                                                              Aristotle and the Secrets of Life
                                                              Aristotle Detective
                                                              The Morning Side of the Hill
                                                              A Stricken Field
                                                              The Great Fall
                                                              Of Bridges
                                                              Sleep Demons
                                                              Why I Write?
                                                              Papi
                                                              Looking for The Stranger
                                                              A Slap in the Face
                                                              Ahab’s Rolling Sea
                                                              Land of Cockaigne
                                                              Father’s on the Phone with the Flies
                                                              When True Love Came to China
                                                              Norte
                                                              Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
                                                              From a View to a Death
                                                              O, How the Wheel Becomes It!
                                                              Venusberg
                                                              What’s Become of Waring
                                                              The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus
                                                              The Chinese Love Pavilion
                                                              You Feel So Mortal
                                                              Voice Message
                                                              Eulogy for the Living
                                                              The Great Prince Died
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