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Gift Books for the Holidays from the University of Chicago Press

The holidays are upon us again and the University of Chicago Press is ready to help you find the perfect book for everyone on your list. Whether you're shopping for someone who loves lavish art books, or that hardcore reader of nonfiction, we've got you covered!  Our curated holiday gift guide is here to help you inform, inspire, educate, and amaze your loved ones this season. Best of all, if you use the code AD2023 you get 30% off! And, if you spend $60 or more, you qualify for free shipping! Want a different browsing experience? You can explore all of these titles by downloading our annual Reading Catalog

Be sure to order on or before December 6th for holiday delivery! 

Gift Books for the Holidays from the University of Chicago Press

Catalog Titles

Animals and Nature

    Otter
    Platypus Matters
    Deep Water
    Worm
    Power in the Wild
    Water Always Wins
    Downriver
    Bird Day
    Audubon at Sea
    Ocean Bestiary
    Journeys with Emperors
    Dog
    The Book of Snakes
    Dogopolis
    Who’s a Good Dog?
    Sloth
    The Sloth Lemur’s Song
    Fascinating Shells
    From the Seashore to the Seafloor
    Robin

    Art

      Pinocchio
      Lamestains
      Sonya Clark
      Olmsted Trees
      Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
      Living Metal
      Inventing Photography
      The Varnish and the Glaze
      Woven Histories
      Harmonia Rosales
      Santiago Calatrava in the Glyptothek
      Merchants of Style
      Pazazz
      Dark Room
      Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects
      Käthe Kollwitz
      Heinrich Campendonk
      The Advanced School of Collective Feeling
      Frida Kahlo
      Vincent’s Books
      Perfect Wave
      Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
      Olga Costa
      Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
      The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America
      The Portraitist
      National Museum of Women in the Arts
      Hans Holbein
      Style & Society
      Gustav Klimt
      Animated Advertising
      Doodling for Academics
      Vincent’s Arles
      Dream Street
      The Jazz Loft Project
      HR Giger
      The Chieftain and the Chair
      The Historic Heart of Oxford University
      Agnes Pelton
      Funk You Too!
      Baroque Prague
      Hilma af Klint
      Paul Cézanne
      Coloring St. Louis

      Fiction

        The Bridge on the Drina
        24 Hours with Gaspar
        Lost Mars
        Reynard the Fox
        A Christmas Carol
        Pilgrims 2.0
        On the Way to the End of the World
        Tales of the Prague Ghetto
        30 April 1945
        Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor
        Russia Container
        Where the Rivers Flow North
        Backflash
        Comeback
        Firebreak
        Flashfire
        The Man with the Getaway Face
        Nobody Runs Forever
        The Outfit
        The Score
        Slayground
        Eleven-Inch

        Nonfiction

          Justice by Means of Democracy
          Black in White Space
          Way Makers
          Richard Owen
          In Praise of the Bicycle
          How to Think like a Philosopher
          Better Bed Manners
          The Huxleys
          Cancel Wars
          A Conspiracy of Ravens
          The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Second Edition
          Song and Self
          American Born
          Hayek
          None of Your Damn Business
          The Hidden Game of Football
          Verified
          Get in the Game
          Churchill’s Britain
          Dangerous Fun
          Is There God after Prince?
          A Date with Language
          Deep South
          "The Girl in the Window" and Other True Tales
          On Christopher Street
          How Schools Really Matter
          The Lost Princess
          Gossip Men
          Democracy for Busy People
          Byron
          The Lamb Cycle
          Ghosts in the Schoolyard
          Democratize Work
          Capitalism and Freedom
          To Live Is to Resist
          Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711–1851)
          The Paradox of Democracy
          The Nutmeg’s Curse
          The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
          Stethoscope
          Storycraft, Second Edition
          The Road to Serfdom
          TL;DR
          Escape to Gwrych Castle
          The Federal Reserve
          Hayek vs Keynes
          Bitten by the Blues
          Radical American Partisanship
          Who Is the City For?
          The Two-Parent Privilege
          The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook
          The Serpent Coiled in Naples
          Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy
          Exquisite Dreams
          Wild Thought
          Novels by Aliens
          The Capital Order
          The Return of Inflation
          Lesbians on Television
          Lydia Maria Child
          Unworking
          Black Earth
          Troubled Water
          Street Scriptures
          Keats’s Odes
          The Apple II Age
          On Not Knowing
          Chaucer’s Italy
          Winters in the World
          The Ends of Freedom
          In Search of Tito’s Punks
          Great Literary Friendships
          Performance All the Way Down
          Redefining Geek
          Tinker to Evers to Chance
          Permanent Crisis
          The Thinking Student’s Guide to College
          Invisible China
          Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
          Ford Madox Ford
          The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction
          Alone
          The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio
          Handwritten
          The Art of Verbal Warfare
          The View from the Hill
          Every Goddamn Day
          The Accidental Equalizer
          The Money Illusion
          Wisdom from the Ancients
          A Swedenborg Perpetual Calendar
          Foxconned
          But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
          The Philosopher of Palo Alto
          Just the Job
          Information Now, Second Edition
          H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
          Race at the Top
          The Black Ceiling
          Born This Way
          Liberalism’s Last Man
          The Subversive Simone Weil

          Plants and Gardening

            A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti
            The Greater Perfection
            Things to Do with Plants
            The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants
            Kew Pocketbooks: Orchids
            Yew
            The Beauty of the Flower
            Extraordinary Orchids
            In the Name of Plants
            Kew Pocketbooks: Mexican Plants
            The Kew Sketch Journal
            Kew Pocketbooks: Trees
            Mushrooms
            Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
            Hello Kew
            Trees
            Rowan
            Chasing Plants
            Carnivorous Plants
            Temptation Transformed

            Coffee Table Books

              Beautiful Experiments
              A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
              Chicago Reflected
              Woven Histories
              Iran
              Travelers, Tracks, and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life
              The Eternal City
              The Book by Design
              "Westward the Course of Empire"
              Formula 1
              Aesop’s Fables
              Gifts & Books
              The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter
              A History of America in 100 Maps
              Bugatti
              Trees
              Dream Street
              The Jazz Loft Project
              Phenomena
              Forty Six
              The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
              Time in Maps

              Cooking and Food

                Fermented Foods
                Why Fast?
                The Food Adventurers
                Hong Kong Foodways
                Breakfast Cereal
                Botany of the Kitchen Garden
                The Big Jones Cookbook
                Midwestern Food
                Soda and Fizzy Drinks
                The Kew Gardens Cookbook
                In Defense of Processed Food
                Coconut
                Fish and Chips
                Oishii
                Cod
                Dinner in Rome

                Science

                  Beautiful Experiments
                  Beyond Weird
                  The Book of Minds
                  The Elements
                  How Life Works
                  Rethinking Hypothyroidism
                  Soviets in Space
                  What’s Eating the Universe?
                  Simulating the Cosmos
                  Waters of the World
                  George Meléndez Wright
                  The Visual Elements—Photography
                  Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish
                  A Book of Noises
                  Beasts at Bedtime
                  The Science of Reading
                  Uranus and Neptune
                  Life Sculpted
                  Tropical Arctic
                  The Next Supercontinent
                  Shells
                  The World of Dinosaurs
                  Mountains of Fire
                  Strata
                  How to Make a Vaccine
                  Enchanted Forests
                  Jupiter
                  Venus
                  For the Love of Mars
                  Phenomena
                  Water Beings
                  Shaping Science
                  Return to My Trees

                  History

                    The English Actor
                    Decadent Women
                    Alle Thyng Hath Tyme
                    Making Mexican Chicago
                    Wanderers
                    Outrageous!
                    Serving the Reich
                    The Lost Subways of North America
                    The Great American Transit Disaster
                    Bede and the Theory of Everything
                    A Brief History of Nakedness
                    An Armchair Traveller’s History of the Silk Road
                    A Short History of Finland
                    The Curious History of Weights & Measures
                    The Sumerians
                    The Lies of the Land
                    Becoming a Historian
                    Francis of Assisi
                    Gladius
                    Napoleon at Peace
                    How the Clinic Made Gender
                    Presidents and Their Books
                    Basilisks and Beowulf
                    The Cult of Creativity
                    Partition
                    A Short History of Tomb-Raiding
                    Everyone against Us
                    The Last Consolation Vanished
                    A Fistful of Shells
                    Country and Midwestern
                    Pet Revolution
                    The Globe
                    The Fires of Lust
                    When the News Broke
                    Pulp Empire
                    The Bonds of Inequality
                    The Worst Military Leaders in History
                    In Levittown’s Shadow
                    I’d Fight the World
                    The Inca
                    Afghanistan
                    Defying Hitler
                    About England
                    The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
                    City of Newsmen
                    Dark Lens
                    A Conspiratorial Life
                    American Imperialist
                    Sins of the Shovel
                    Arc of Feeling
                    Banking on Slavery
                    Navigations
                    Freedom Seekers
                    The Beat Cop
                    Stones
                    Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma
                    The Maya
                    The Persians
                    The Pleasure’s All Mine
                    Fit Nation
                    Homer
                    The Ruling Families of Rus
                    Hitler’s Tyranny
                    Rommel
                    Incomparable Realms
                    D-Day Through French Eyes
                    Sheer Misery
                    The Nation That Never Was
                    A Monarch in the Making
                    The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
                    Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race
                    Avian Illuminations
                    You Had a Job for Life
                    Flowers, Guns, and Money
                    Ukraine
                    The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
                    Doodling for Academics
                    Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty
                    Catastrophic Thinking
                    Libraries and Books in Medieval England
                    The Etruscans
                    Laughing Shall I Die
                    The Greatest Shows on Earth
                    The Pirates’ Code
                    The Hittites
                    Fairies
                    Astray
                    Games People Played
                    Wine
                    Introducing the Medieval Fox
                    Eaters of the Dead
                    Radicals and Rogues
                    Popularizing the Past
                    A Cultural History of The Punisher
                    Nuclear Minds
                    Charles IV

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