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Exquisite Books 1-773-702-7000 The Elements A Visual History of Their Discovery Philip Ball From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. “Ball has once again produced a terrific book, one that presents a tremendous amount of the history of chemistry in a manner that is engagingly written, beautifully illustrated, and conscientious about avoiding the usual traps of popular science. . . . I cannot think of another popular history of chemistry I have so enjoyed reading.” —Michael D. Gordin, author of On the Fringe 2021 224 p. 71/2 x 93/4 200 color plates 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77595-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Tropical Arctic Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland Jennifer C. McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian J. Glasspool “A compelling fusion of art and science, Tropical Arctic brings to life a warmer world at the dawn of the Jurassic when Greenland was covered with lush forests and global climate change wrought ecologi- cal disruption. Tropical Arctic reveals the creativity and dedication needed to understand our planet’s ancient past”—Sir Peter Crane, president, Oak Spring Garden Foundation “Tropical Arctic recreates a collapsing ecosystem 200 million years ago in words and visuals that are detailed and beautiful. . . . This timely book is engrossing as it relays the dangers of exceeding the limits of plant and animal resilience and overheating an already too hot Earth.”—Foreword 2021 144 p. 81/2 x 11 91 color plates, 15 halftones 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Aesop’s Fables Illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker For 25 centuries, the animal stories that go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best- loved fables, including “The Boy who Cried Wolf,” “The Lion and the Mouse,” “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg,” “The Hare and the Tortoise,” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse,” alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 37 woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Distributed for Bodleian Library 2021 208 p. 71/2 x 91/2 35 halftones 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-537-6 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00 Strata William Smith’s Geological Maps Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History “Some books are beautiful, others are enlightening. Strata is both. Packed with exquisite illustrations, it presents the work of William Smith, a seventeenth-century geologist, who was the first person to comprehensively map the earth beneath our feet. It’s the best non- fiction book I’ve read in a long time.”—BBC News “Offers a glimpse of ancient history and reminds us of the immensity of geological time. . . . The book’s visual appeal distinguishes it—beauti- fully drawn, colorful maps and drawings are as much a work of art as of science.”—Library Journal 2020 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 500 color plates 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75488-8 $65.00 Your Price: $52.00 Front cover: photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash
press.uchicago.edu/directmail Great Reading 1 Black Paper The Nutmeg’s Curse Writing in a Dark Time Parables for a Planet in Crisis Teju Cole Amitav Ghosh “Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black “In this brilliant book, aflame with insight and Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to moral power, Ghosh shows that in the history of the sustain our humanity—and witness the human- nutmeg lies the path to our planetary crisis, twisting ity of others—in a time of darkness. One of the through the horrors of empire and racial capitalism. most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole The Nutmeg’s Curse brings to life alternative visions here plays variations on the essay form, giving us of human flourishing in consonance with the rest intriguing new ways of thinking about blackness of nature—and reminds us how great are the vested and its numerous connotations. As he describes the interests that obstruct them.”—Sunil Amrith, author carbon-copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on of Unruly Waters the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white sheet. Black “Ghosh challenges readers to reckon with war, transported the meaning.” empire, and genocide in order to fully grasp the 2021 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 color plates, 6 halftones world-devouring logics that underpin ecological col- 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-64135-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 lapse. . . . Do not miss this book—and above all, do not tell yourself that you already know its contents, Available for Preorder because you don’t.”—Naomi Klein, author of This Black in White Space Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 2021 336 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81545-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Elijah Anderson “A captivating book that is a must-read for anyone The Subversive Simone Weil seeking a lucid discussion of American race rela- A Life in Five Ideas tions.”—William Julius Wilson, Harvard University Robert Zaretsky “Black in White Space is an elegantly composed, “This memorable survey delivers a rich portrait of brilliant, and intimate look at how Black people are the intellectual currents that shaped a one-of-a-kind seen in and navigate through predominantly white thinker. Those curious about Weil’s work will find spaces. This will be an extremely useful text— this to be a welcome place to start.”—Publishers Weekly particularly as we grapple with what diversity means in its substance as an aspiration.”—Imani Perry, “[An] absorbing and tender intellectual portrait. Princeton University . . . With her demanding vision of the life well lived, 2021 272 p. 6 x 9 in her extreme judgments and through her punish- 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65723-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 ing empathy, Weil emerges here as a figurehead for the intellectual and ethical challenges of the current The Porch moment.”—Alice Kaplan, author of Looking for The Meditations on the Edge of Nature Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 Charlie Hailey 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54933-0 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 “A Sand County Almanac for the Anthropocene. . . . Hailey’s book reaches beyond the merely static facts Keats’s Odes of history to something more poetic.”—Guernica A Lover’s Discourse “The Porch first appears to be a study of a minor Anahid Nersessian architectural element, but it turns into a meditation “Intense emotion abounds in this literary blend of on the secrets of human existence and the world. analysis and autobiography. . . . In six essays that This book demonstrates convincingly how even a examine each of Keats’s Great Odes, Nersessian modest piece of architecture turns into a mediat- tells a ‘kind of love story’ between herself and the ing device that frames, focuses, and articulates our poems.”—Publishers Weekly views of reality. This book is a delightful invitation 2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 to the joys of reading, imagining, and dreaming.” 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76267-8 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 —Juhani Pallasmaa, Aalto University, Helsinki 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 6 line drawings 7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76995-0 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00
2 Great Reading 1-773-702-7000 The Oak Park Studio of Frank Supernatural America Lloyd Wright The Paranormal in American Art Lisa D. Schrenk Edited by Robert Cozzolino “In this magnificent offering, Schrenk takes a re- “Covers more than 200 years of visualizations of markably detailed look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak paranormal phenomena and otherworldly contact, Park Studio in Chicago. . . . Architecture buffs won’t demonstrating a search for healing from the coun- want to miss this extraordinary monograph.” try’s violent past by embracing the uncanny.” —Publishers Weekly —Bookseller “Frank Lloyd Wright said he shook his designs “Cozzolino aims to offer new ways of seeing, and out of his sleeve. In this remarkable and informa- new entry points for comprehending how artists tive new book, Schrenk shows what Wright had up have given physical form to intangible visitations or his sleeve at his Oak Park Studio—a talented team experiences (spanning the realms of UFOs, séances, of architects, artists, and designers who helped him and spirits of Indigenous or enslaved peoples). . . . produce a masterpiece a year.”—Kevin Harrington, Whether or not readers believe in the supernatu- Illinois Institute of Technology ral, they’ll be impressed by the erudition of these 2021 336 p. 81/2 x 11 179 halftones, 1 table texts and the wide range of beautifully presented 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31894-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 artworks.”—Library Journal 2021 320 p. 91/4 x 11 200 color plates Matisse 14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78682-7 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00 The Books Louise Rogers Lalaurie Vincent’s Books Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him “[A] fresh, in-depth, lavishly illustrated study.” Mariella Guzzoni —Financial Times “Vincent van Gogh’s letters are almost as wonderful “Henri Matisse did not confine his art to the cut- as his paintings and in one of them he writes, ‘I out or the canvas. In fact, over a period of 18 years, have a more or less irresistible passion for books.’ he produced eight limited-edition books that dem- Guzzoni traces that passion in the beautifully onstrate a deft understanding of the interplay be- designed Vincent’s Books. If you need a gift for a book tween word and image. In this new volume, Louise or art lover, this is it.”—Washington Post Rogers Lalaurie considers the significance of these editions. . . . Not only does it contain rarely seen “During this meandering journey through Hol- images, but also a sensitive analysis of [Matisse’s] land, Paris, Provence, and beyond, Guzzoni reveals relationships (as inscribed in these books) and his just how much Van Gogh’s favorite books and political affiliations during World War II.” authors defined his life and art.”—Christie’s 2020 224 p. 6 x 9 132 color plates —Arts Society 15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-70646-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 2020 320 p. 121/2 x 103/8 350 color plates 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75054-5 $75.00 Your Price: $60.00 Fantastic Women Chicago Apartments Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Louise A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury Bourgeois Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein Edited by L. Kirstin Degel and Ingrid Pfeiffer The ribbon of high rise luxury apartment buildings Seeking to present the female perspective of the along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals women artists of surrealism, Fantastic Women nationwide for sustained architectural significance. highlights this forgotten side of the avant-garde This historic confluence of site, money, style, and movement. Including 350 color plates, this book development lies at the heart of the updated edition showcases paintings, drawings, photography, films, of Neil Harris’s Chicago Apartments. Featuring nearly and other artworks that create a powerful case for 350 stunning images and a foreword by renowned the recognition and celebration of the women artists Chicago author Sara Paretsky, this new edition of of the avant-garde. Distributed for Hirmer Publishers Chicago Apartments offers a wide-ranging look inside 2020 420 p. 91/2 x 111/2 350 color plates some of the Windy City’s most magnificent abodes. 16 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3414-8 $60.00 Your Price: $48.00 2020 368 p. 81/2 x 11 344 duotones 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61087-0 $85.00 Your Price: $68.00
press.uchicago.edu/directmail Great Reading 3 The Modern Myths Pulp Empire Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism Imagination Paul S. Hirsch Philip Ball “Hirsch positions the early decades of the American “From acclaimed popular science writer Ball comes comic book in a global context and illuminates the a fresh look at the modern legends that shape our anxieties this powerful new form of popular culture perception of reality. Stories like Dracula, Batman, inspired not only in parents and cultural critics but Sherlock Holmes, or Frankenstein, which we keep also in government officials and world leaders.” retelling and reimagining, are doing the kind of —Jared Gardner, author of Projections: Comics and the cultural work that ancient myths and fairy tales History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling once did. How do they operate, and why do we need “Every so often, a single book changes our under- them? And what tales will come to be the new myths standing of an entire topic. Hirsch’s brilliant, artfully of the future?”—Bookseller written Pulp Empire does that for mid-twentieth-cen- 2021 368 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71926-9 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 tury American studies. The billions of comic books that rolled off American presses and circumnavi- Gen Z, Explained gated the globe in the 1940s and ’50s reveal significant The Art of Living in a Digital Age unexplored aspects of American society, politics, Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, and and foreign policy.”—Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of Linda Woodhead American Prometheus 2021 344 p. 6 x 9 44 color plates, 6 halftones “This extraordinarily rich and empathetic account 21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35055-4 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 of Gen Z offers a groundbreaking understanding of this generation’s habits and motivations without Beyond Weird reducing them to the sum of their posts and tweets. Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum . . . Parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about Physics Is Different our future as a society should read this deeply in- Philip Ball formed contribution to the research on Gen Z.” “Ball’s gorgeously lucid text takes us to the edge of —Devorah Heitner, author of Screenwise 2021 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 7 tables contemporary theorizing about the foundations of 18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79153-1 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 quantum mechanics.”—Washington Post “[Ball] weighs up the competing interpretations, Seeing Silicon Valley and the misconceptions, that have attached them- Life inside a Fraying America selves to quantum theory in its 100-year history, Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner finishing with more recent attempts to rebuild the “Seeing Silicon Valley spotlights people lost in the theory ‘from scratch’, and new ideas that offer tan- shadows of the tech capital. . . . Through their col- talizing glimpses beyond. . . . [A] laudable achieve- lection of around 30 portraits and mini-narratives ment.”—Sunday Times of everyday people, Meehan and Turner take us 2020 384 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 halftones, 19 line drawings 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75510-6 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 through the unique lives of a swath of the region’s residents who each struggle, in their own ways, to feel a sense of stability.”—San Francisco Chronicle In Praise of the Bicycle 2021 112 p. 10 x 7 67 color plates Marc Augé 19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78648-3 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 “In this playful (and playfully illustrated) little book . . . a French anthropologist expounds on his love Now in Paperback of cycling. On a bicycle, he asserts, ‘you become Crime Dot Com someone else, and yet you are yourself as never From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global before.’ . . . His argument is fast and incautious; he’s Geoff White freewheeling and having great fun.”—New York Times Distributed for Reaktion Books Book Review 2021 344 p. 5 x 73/4 Distributed for Reaktion Books 20 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-443-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 2019 96 p. 43/4 x 73/4 8 halftones 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-138-2 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20
4 Great Reading 1-773-702-7000 Animals’ Best Friends What’s Eating the Universe? Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity And Other Cosmic Questions and in the Wild Paul Davies Barbara J. King “Brilliant. You won’t find a clearer, more engaging “Sharing her personal experiences and her exten- guide to what we know (or would like to know) about sive research, King shows how people can treat the universe and how it is put together.”—Bill Bryson, animals with sensitivity, from not killing spiders author of A Short History of Nearly Everything in the home to avoiding eating Chinook salmon, a “Davies gives us a thought-provoking, fascinat- preferred food of orca whales. . . . This interesting ing, and delightful journey through some of the Big work is often troubling to read, yet it’s important in Questions that have perplexed and tantalized scien- showing how people can compassionately care for tists throughout history. . . . What happened before the animals that share our planet.”—Library Journal the beginning? What is the meaning of the universe? 2021 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60148-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 Are there other universes?”—Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible The Other Dark Matter 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones, 1 tables 28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81629-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health ‘I Know Who Caused Lina Zeldovich COVID-19’ “Zeldovich shows to dazzling effect how a famously Pandemics and Xenophobia difficult subject—the often peculiar scientific history Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gilman of human waste—can become an engrossing tale. The story is enlightening, surprising, occasionally This is a timely, cogent examination of the blame and enraging—and wholly worth your time.” xenophobia that have been brought to the surface by —Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a close analysis The Poison Squad of four cases from around the world, this book 2021 264 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones explores prejudice toward groups who are thought 25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61557-8 $26.00 Your Price: $20.80 to have caused and spread COVID-19. The authors examine stereotyping and the false attribution of Geometry of Grief blame towards these groups, as well as what hap- Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life pens when a collective is actually at fault, and how Michael Frame the community deals with these conflicting issues. Distributed for Reaktion Books “With concision and compassion, Frame shows how 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 a mathematical mind makes sense of a grieving 29 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-507-6 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 heart. The result is a peculiar, wise, and beautiful book.”—Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad Drawings Breathing 2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 45 halftones An Inspired History 26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80092-9 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Edgar Williams How to Make a Vaccine Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Ranging over topics from ancient meditation prac- John Rhodes tices to modern ventilator technology, air pollution, “At a time when online searches for books on vac- and the threat of respiratory viruses, this book tells cines are more likely to turn up misinformation the fascinating story of breathing—a tale relevant to than reliable literature, How to Make a Vaccine is everyone. a required primer that demystifies concepts and “An expansive piece of scholarship that explores gives an informative overview of how vaccines are the wild and often weird history of our most essen- developed and how they work. An essential guide tial biological function.”—James Nestor, author of indeed.”—The Inquisitive Biologist 2021 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art 27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79251-4 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 256 p. 51/2 x 91/4 70 halftones 30 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-362-1 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00
press.uchicago.edu/directmail Great Reading 5 A Brief History of Nakedness The Fires of Lust Philip Carr-Gomm Sex in the Middle Ages “As Carr-Gomm reveals in his academic romp Katherine Harvey through two millenniums of public exhibitionism “With unabashed directness, a delicate touch of wit, from the ancient Greeks to animal-rights activists, and constant humanity, Harvey surveys the world you can be naked anywhere. You are only nude of medieval sex and sexuality. Throughout The Fires if someone is watching. Nakedness on its own is of Lust she situates the twin themes of morality and straightforward—it’s the context and the audience of medicine in the social and material world that me- nudity that make it interesting.”—Times dieval people inhabited. . . . Here, in its messy com- “Carr-Gomm’s lushly illustrated book takes a long plexity, is medieval life—life laid bare, but always and enthusiastic look at the politics and culture of with respect and care. A triumph.”—John H. Arnold, nakedness. . . . Thought-provoking.”—Economist author of Belief and Unbelief in the Middle Ages Distributed for Reaktion Books Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 320 p. 61/4 x 91/4 17 halftones 2013 288 p. 6 x 9 99 color plates, 44 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-489-5 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 31 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-022-1 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 The People’s Porn With the Hand A History of Handmade Pornography in America A Cultural History of Masturbation Lisa Z. Sigel Mels van Driel “From erotic scrimshaw made by nineteenth- “An enthusiastic, amusing, and eye-opening ex- century sailors to amateur polaroids, [this book] ploration of a topic which remains disappointingly charts a course through the ways in which appar- taboo.”—New Scientist ently ‘ordinary’ men and women represented sex “When [van Driel’s] stethoscope is about his neck, in all its variety—cis and trans, straight and queer, the M.D. employs all the unvarnished plainspoken- in couples or groups, with people or animals and ness of any health care professional. But when he somewhere in between. . . . The People’s Porn is at its entertains historical, literary, and other arts-and- most illuminating when exploring the place of sex humanities perspectives, he is as curious and open in shared cultures of humor and conviviality, show- to surprise as any cultural critic.”—Chronicle of ing that pornography was as much about male (and Higher Education sometimes female) bonding as it was about private Distributed for Reaktion Books 2012 255 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 halftones fantasy.”—History Today 35 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-919-4 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Distributed for Reaktion Books 2020 256 p. 61/4 x 81/4 70 color plates, 29 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-226-6 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00 Sex in the World of Myth David Leeming The Pleasure’s All Mine In this survey of the sex lives of the world’s mytho- A History of Perverse Sex logical figures, Leeming demonstrates that even Julie Peakman when such myths are meant to elicit laughter or “Whether sussing out topics like homosexuality titillation, they also offer answers to questions of and BDSM, to those that still remain taboo, like religion, existence, and human sexuality. bestiality and pedophilia, Peakman is able to pro- “Destined to become a classic in its field. . . . vide a well-needed historical context for all things [Leeming] understands that lack of respect for the ‘perverse’ (or in her opinion, not perverse at all) and female is the great wound at the heart of human shine a light in the many places we would rather sexuality, and this book serves as a starting point to keep dark.”—Bookslut heal it.”—Australian “Peakman’s broad overview is stunning, sweeping, Distributed for Reaktion Books 2018 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 50 halftones and very carefully nonjudgmental. . . . A fact-filled, 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-977-4 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00 entertaining read for sex history neophytes and scholars alike.”—Library Journal Distributed for Reaktion Books This catalog is available online at 2016 472 p. 6 x 9 64 color plates, 114 halftones 33 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-675-9 $29.00 Your Price: $23.20 bit.ly/UCP-Reading
6 Reference & Language 1-773-702-7000 Hyphens & Hashtags* On Revision *The stories behind the symbols on our keyboard The Only Writing That Counts Claire Cock-Starkey William Germano In our digital world, we owe much of our ability to “On Revision is about the process of writing and communicate to the punctuation marks, mathemati- its last steps, those of shaping a text and turning a cal symbols, and other glyphs that hover on the manuscript into a well-argued and readable book it edges of our keyboard. Hyphens & Hashtags presents wants to be. With On Revision at your side, you will the history and modern evolution of these stalwart have a superb guide to gaining the skills and experi- symbols, revealing the long road many have taken ence needed to finish your own project, all the while on their way to general usage. enjoying the elegance and wit of Germano’s prose.” Distributed for Bodleian Library —Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania 2021 192 p. 43/4 x 71/4 2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones, 6 line drawings 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-536-9 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-41065-4 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00 Storycraft, Second Edition I, Grape; or The Case for The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction Jack Hart Fiction Essays “This book is a master class in narrative nonfic- Brock Clarke tion, a must-read for anyone who wants to tell true stories. Whether you’re a novice writer or seasoned “Novelist Clarke chronicles in this whimsical outing veteran, you will learn from Hart’s insight and ex- his obsession with fiction as an art form. . . . This amples culled from decades of coaching and editing impassioned defense of fiction is great for dipping some of the country’s best reporters. He shows us into, and those who engage with fiction on a deep how to seek scenes, build structure, explore voices, level will find much here that piques.” write riveting stories—then make them sing.” —Publishers Weekly Distributed for Acre Books —Lane DeGregory, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist 2021 176 p. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 2021 320 p. 6 x 9 42 Paper ISBN: 978-1-946724-36-6 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60 38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73692-1 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 Information Now An Inky Business A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to Second Edition the American Civil War A Graphic Guide to Student Research and Web Literacy Matthew J. Shaw Matt Upson, Holly Luetkenhaus, C. Michael Hall, and Kevin Cannon “A vivid and incisive account of the origins of “Information Now equips undergraduate students newspapers and their extraordinary role in the with essential research strategies and tools as transformation of society over two hundred years. they navigate the complex information world. It With the very concept of news under threat, this scaffolds the research process through real-world book could not be more timely.”—Paul Lay, editor of examples, good humor, and helpful exercises. The History Today Distributed for Reaktion Books authors have packed their many years of informa- 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones tion literacy teaching wisdom into this short graphic 39 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-386-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 guide—the comic-book style engages college readers and makes the learning experience enjoyable.” Just the Job —Ning Zou, Harvard University How Trades got their Names 2021 136 p. 7 x 10 43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76611-9 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40 Alexander Tulloch In this highly original book, linguist Alexander Around the World in 80 Tulloch examines the etymology behind a selection of trades and professions, unearthing intriguing bits Words of historical information along the way. A Journey through the English Language Distributed for Bodleian Library Paul Anthony Jones 2020 224 p. 43/4 x 71/4 30 halftones 2020 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-550-5 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68279-2 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40
press.uchicago.edu/directmail Inspiration & Quotables 7 The Pocket Epicurean The Daily Henry David John Sellars Thoreau Though today we tend to associate the word A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season “Epicurean” with indulgence in the form of food Edited by Laura Dassow Walls and wine, the philosophy of Epicurus was about a life well lived even in the hardest of times. This “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, book is a concise, approachable guide to living the drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself good life through the teachings of Epicurus. to the influence of each.” “In this brief and eloquent book, Sellars takes Drawn from the full range of Thoreau’s journals us through the basic arguments of Epicureanism and published writings, and arranged according to with wonderful clarity, distilling the essence of an season, The Daily Henry David Thoreau allows us to ancient philosophy that speaks with increasing discover the endless variation and surprise to be urgency to our troubled times.”—David Konstan, found in the natural world. This little volume em- New York University bodies, in small compass, Thoreau’s own ambition 2021 72 p. 41/2 x 6 to “live in season”—to attune ourselves to nature and 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $12.50 Your Price: $10.00 heal our modern sense of discontinuity with our surroundings. The Pocket Stoic 2020 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-62496-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 John Sellars “Sellars’s book is an excellent starting point for any- The Daily Sherlock Holmes one interested in experimenting with this approach A Year of Quotes from the Case-Book of the World’s to life.”—Five Books Greatest Detective “Expertly and vividly Sellars presents lessons Edited by Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani in Stoicism that are strikingly relevant to modern The Daily Sherlock Holmes is the perfect bedside life. From the great Roman Stoic authors, he distills companion for fans of the world’s only consulting teaching on managing emotions, dealing with detective. Within these pages readers will find a adversity, facing death, and making the best use of quotation for every day of the year, drawn from every hour and situation. This is a book that excel- across the Conan Doyle canon. lently shows why Stoicism is the philosophy for our 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 time. I recommend it with enthusiasm.” 49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65964-0 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 —A. A. Long, author of Epictetus: How to be Free 2020 64 p. 41/2 x 6 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68296-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60 The Daily Jane Austen A Year of Quotes Seneca Edited by Devoney Looser Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic “Delightful. . . . Some [quotations] are the briefest Lucius Annaeus Seneca little bons mots, others provide a satisfying chunk In the year 62, the Roman philosopher Seneca with- of Austen to illuminate your day.”—Jane Austen’s drew from public service and devoted his time to Regency World 2019 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 writing. His letters from this period offer a window 50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-65544-4 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 into his personal life and provide lucid explana- tions for many key points of Stoic philosophy. This The Daily Charles Dickens selection of fifty letters brings out the essentials of A Year of Quotes Seneca’s thought, with much that speaks directly to Edited by James R. Kincaid the modern reader. Above all, they explore the inner life of the individual who proceeds through philo- “Dickens was a chronicler of Victorian times, an sophical inquiry from a state of emotional turmoil entertainer and a fighter for social justice. So what to true friendship, self-determination, and personal book lover wouldn’t want a daily quote to chew on to excellence. start the day?”—Our Windsor 2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2018 208 p. 41/2 x 71/4 47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56374-9 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80
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press.uchicago.edu/directmail Fantastic Tales 11 Reynard the Fox Basilisks and Beowulf Retold by Anne Louise Avery Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World “A tour de force of storytelling and a beautiful object Tim Flight in itself.”—Wall Street Journal “A bold and wide-ranging expedition into the wildest “Game of Thrones meets The Wind in the Willows corners of the early medieval mind; Flight skillfully in Avery’s retelling of Reynard the Fox. Riffing on conjures the primal fears and ancient wonders that William Caxton’s 1481 English translation of a popu- once lurked in England’s shadowed groves and hol- lar Dutch beast epic, this is set in an intricate medi- lows.”—Thomas Williams, author of Viking Britain: eval world reminiscent of Brian Jacques’s ‘Redwall’ A History Distributed for Reaktion Books series, except bawdy and violent. . . . The challenge 2021 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 color plates, 10 halftones of Avery’s language is equaled by the reward of 81 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-433-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 world-building.”—School Library Journal Distributed for Bodleian Library 2020 480 p. 53/4 x 73/4 Eaters of the Dead 78 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-555-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00 Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Shapeshifters “Wetmore has written a fascinating history of the A History ultimate recycling—cannibalism. . . . The book is John B. Kachuba two-fold, investigating not only the innate fear of be- “[A] wide-ranging study . . . of our long-established ing eaten but the nightmare of becoming a cannibal fascination with shapeshifting in all its guises. It ourselves.”—Del Howison, author and editor Distributed for Reaktion Books is ubiquitous in literature and folklore, from the 2021 276 p. 61/4 x 81/4 43 halftones countless metamorphoses in Greek myth down 82 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-444-4 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 to the apprentice wizards of Hogwarts. Transfor- mation is the lifeblood of narrative. . . . Kachuba The Devil and His Advocates refreshes the meager store of case studies from the Erik Butler time of the European witch craze with comparable “[Butler] explores the character of the devil in litera- modern accounts.”—Literary Review ture, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones up to the present, discussing canonical authors such 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-079-8 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00 as Dante, Goethe, and Milton.”—Publishers Weekly “The Devil and His Advocates presents a grand Fairies sweep of Western intellectual history that amounts A Dangerous History to an alternative history of evil in the Christian Richard Sugg world. In Butler, the Devil has found his most “[A] bulging field guide to fairy lore. Taking read- eloquent, sophisticated, and measured advocate to ers on a tour of the brownies, hobs, changelings, date.”—Nick Groom, University of Macau kelpies, selkies, sea trows, and various other fairy Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 248 p. 61/4 x 81/4 29 halftones types of the British Isles and beyond, Sugg inves- 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-373-7 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 tigates ‘the great heresy of fairyland’ in folklore, the arts, and historical testimony.”—Times Literary The Writer’s Map Supplement An Atlas of Imaginary Lands “Far from the innocuous flutterings of Disney Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones films, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries “One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (espe- fairies were often regarded as dangerous creatures. cially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map . . . This account of apparent ‘sightings,’ and what secreted inside and filled with the details of a land they tell us about wider society, makes for compel- about to be discovered. . . . The Writer’s Map contains ling reading.”—History Revealed dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn Distributed for Reaktion Books 2019 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 color plates, 4 halftones or that have been made by others to illustrate the 80 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-120-7 $14.00 Your Price: $11.20 places they’ve created.”—Atlas Obscura 2018 256 p. 81/4 x 113/4 220 color plates 84 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59663-1 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00
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