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Aeschylus
The Greek Tragedies

"Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume. Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's…

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Niayesh Afshordi, Phil Halper
Battle of the Big Bang

"Excellent."--Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal - "Terrific."--Liz Else, New Scientist (Best Popular Science Books of 2025) - "A brilliant overview of the state of modern cosm…

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Alison Bashford
Decoding the Hand

"The astonishing story of palmistry-from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and medicine. Why did Isaac Newton read books on chiromancy, the occult science of hand reading that reve…

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Gregory Bateson
Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new For…

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Karol Berger
Mahler's Symphonic World

A new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world.Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orche…

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Martin Buber
A Land of Two Peoples

A new edition of Martin Buber's many writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, with updated forewords by two preeminent Palestinian and Jewish scholars. The theologian and philosopher Martin Buber (…

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Albert Camus
The Complete Notebooks

The first complete translation of Albert Camus's personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.Throughout his career, French writer and philoso…

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Allen B. Downey
Probably Overthinking It

An essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making.Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blo…

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Amitav Ghosh
Great Derangement

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major …

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Anne E. Greene
Writing Science in Plain English

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing

An updated edition of the essential guide for all scientists--from undergraduates to senior scholars--who want to produce prose that anyone can understand.Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and diffi…

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Adam S. Hayes
Irrational Together

A must-read that reshapes how we think about the social underpinnings of our financial choices.In Irrational Together, economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover …

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Maximilian Kasy
The Means of Prediction

"An eye-opening examination of how power-not technology-will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, empl…

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Sandra Knapp,
Flower Day

An illustrated hourly guide that spotlights twenty-four flowers as they attract pollinators, resist predators, and survive on our changing planet.Is it 4 AM or chicory o'clock? In this short book, botanis…

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Thomas S. Kuhn
Structure of Scientific Revolutions

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and w…

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George Lakoff
The Neural Mind

Offers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experience t…

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Norman Maclean
A River Runs through It and Other Stories

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in…

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Clara E. Mattei
The Capital Order

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year"A must-read, with key lessons for the future."--Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins.For more than a cent…

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Paul Mendes-Flohr
Love Is Strong as Death

A brilliant and engaging biography of one of the great modern Jewish thinkers.Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germ…

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Laine Nooney
The Apple II Age

An engrossing origin story for the personal computer--showing how the Apple II's software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists' plaything to essential home appliance.Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and th…

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Rune Nyord
Yearning for Immortality

How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity.Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians' obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure …

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