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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

Who Reads Poetry

50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine

Fred Sasaki

Keats’s Odes

A Lover’s Discourse

Anahid Nersessian

Porcelain

Poem on the Downfall of My City

Durs Grünbein

études

Friederike Mayröcker

Rachel Owen

Illustrations for Dante’s “Inferno”

David Bowe

The Poet and the Publisher

The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street

Pat Rogers

Catalog Titles

30% off Recent 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

        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
        Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery
        Plant Evolution
        The Book of Seeds
        Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
        Cactus
        The Domestic Herbal
        Amber Waves

        Cultural History

          Seeing into the Future
          Packaged Pleasures
          Stand Up Straight!
          Broken Dreams
          Digging Up the Dead
          Phantom Islands
          Of Beards and Men
          Licentious Worlds
          The Most Powerful Idea in the World
          Power on the Inside
          Do You See Ice?
          Vast Expanses
          Shoddy
          Is the Cemetery Dead?
          Policing the Big Apple
          The Legendary Detective
          Breathing
          Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
          Assassins’ Deeds

          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

            Fiction and Literature for $7

              Lost Mars
              The Maze Maker
              The Parasite
              The Chattertooth Eleven
              The Safe House
              Gramsci’s Fall
              A Naked Singularity
              Youth Without Youth
              Science Fiktion
              Doña Barbara
              Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
              The Bad Lands
              The Unfinished
              Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor
              Uselessness
              Mydriasis
              Everyday Spooks
              Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
              The Raj Quartet, Volume 1
              The Divine Song
              August
              The Great Prince Died

              Fun, Games, and the Fantastic

                The Rise of the Vampire
                A Fan’s Life
                Cycling Science
                How to be a Good Parent
                The Phoenix
                Heath Robinson: How to Live in a Flat
                The Bittersweet Science
                Wrigley Field
                The Hidden Game of Baseball
                Games People Played
                Love Game

                Math and Physical Science

                  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

                  Political Science and Law

                    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
                    Foxconned
                    The Border Within

                    European 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

                      British 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
                            Crap

                            Cartography

                              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

                              History of Ideas

                                Imaginary Cities
                                The Arc of Love
                                Dispatches from Dystopia
                                Power and Time
                                Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
                                Juvenescence
                                The Actual and the Rational
                                The Rise of the West
                                The Marvelous Clouds
                                After the Beautiful
                                Action versus Contemplation

                                Travel

                                  London
                                  Berlin for Jews
                                  Beyond the Map
                                  Elsewhere
                                  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

                                  Cooking and Food

                                    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!
                                      Dutch Pictures In the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen
                                      Czech Modern Painters

                                      Photography and Fashion

                                        Vivian Maier
                                        Through the Lens of Janet Stone
                                        The Suit
                                        The Camera Does the Rest
                                        Cairo to Constantinople
                                        Gloves
                                        A Box of Photographs
                                        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 and Technology

                                              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

                                                Gardening

                                                  A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables
                                                  Heritage Apples
                                                  Plant Families
                                                  Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum
                                                  Bizarre Botany
                                                  Extraordinary Orchids
                                                  Strange Bright Blooms
                                                  Discoveries in the Garden
                                                  Prague
                                                  Get Plants
                                                  Herbs A to Z
                                                  The Botany of Gin

                                                  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

                                                    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

                                                        Biography

                                                          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

                                                          Social Science

                                                            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

                                                            Earth Science

                                                              Choked
                                                              Downriver
                                                              Ground Truth
                                                              The Future of Conservation in America
                                                              Wild Sea
                                                              Tropical Arctic
                                                              The World of Dinosaurs
                                                              Dangerous Earth
                                                              Walden Warming
                                                              Catastrophic Thinking
                                                              The Other Dark Matter

                                                              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
                                                                Keats’s Odes
                                                                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, Poetry, and Literature

                                                                  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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