Online features
from Chicago books

excerpts, interviews, essays, etc.

 Anthropology

• Blank, Jonah: Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras
  › Read an excerpt and interview with the author.
  
• Gottlieb, Alma: The Afterlife Is Where We Come From
  › See a website for the book with color versions of the photographs, videos to accompany the book, and an excerpt.
  
• Herzfeld, Michael: Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome
  › See a trailer for Monti Moments, a film about the subject of the book.
  
• Phillips, Susan A.: Wallbangin': Graffiti and Gangs in L.A.
  › Read an illustrated excerpt.
  
• Sahlins, Marshall: Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
  › Read an excerpt.
• Taussig, Michael: My Cocaine Museum
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Taussig, Michael: Walter Benjamin's Grave
  › Read an excerpt.
• Taussig, Michael: What Color Is the Sacred?
  › Read an excerpt.
• Wikan, Unni: In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Wilmsen, Edwin N.: Journeys with Flies
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Zaloom, Caitlin: Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London
  › Read an excerpt.

 Art and architecture

• Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla: Leonardo, The Last Supper
  › View fourteen images.
  
• Benezra, Neal: Juan Munoz
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bevan, Robert: The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bottoms, Greg: The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
  › Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
  
• Brassai: Conversations with Picasso
  › Read an excerpt from October 1943.
  
• Bruegmann, Robert: Sprawl: A Compact History
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Burke, Carolyn: Lee Miller: A Life
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Chappell, Sally A. Kitt: Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
  › View a video overview of the book.
  
• Drucker, Johanna: Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Durozoi, Gerard: History of the Surrealist Movement
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Ebert, Roger: Scorsese by Ebert
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Elliott, Peter: Home Front: American Flags from Across the United States
  › View sample photographs.
  
• Gilbertson, Ashley: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
  › See a video interview of the author on our website for the book.
  
• Gilfoyle, Timothy J.: Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark
  › See a trivia quiz.
• Gray, Mary Lackritz: A Guide to Chicago's Murals
  › View images from the book.
  
• Guthrie, R. Dale: The Nature of Paleolithic Art
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Halpern, Richard: Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Hogan, Erin: Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West
  › Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
  
• Johnson, Elmer W.: Chicago Metropolis 2020: The Chicago Plan for the Twenty-First Century
  › Read an excerpt from the introduction.
  
• Nadler, Steven: Rembrandt's Jews
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Page, Barbara: Rock of Ages, Sands of Time: Paintings by Barbara Page, Text by Warren Allmon
  › View images from the book and read interview with the author.
  
• Poulet, Anne L.: Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
  › See images from the book.
  
• Rugg, Linda Haverty: Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography
  › Read an excerpt from the introduction.
  
• Scharfstein, Ben-Ami: Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Schulze, Franz: Chicago's Famous Buildings
  › Read excerpts.
  
• Scott, John Beldon: Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Searle, Ronald: Ronald Searle in Le Monde
  › View five cartoons from the book.
  
• Lynn Spigel: TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Spirn, Anne Whiston: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
  › See an illustrated excerpt.
  
• Storrer, William Allin: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog
  › See the entries for the Robie and Heller Houses.
  

 Biography and Memoir

• Adamczyk, Wesley: When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Amenta, Edwin: Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Biro, Adam: One Must Also Be Hungarian
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bottoms, Greg: Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Brassai: Henry Miller, Happy Rock
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Brown, David S.: Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Cronin, James W.: Fermi Remembered
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Drucker, Doris: Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair: A Memoir
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Durocher, Leo: Nice Guys Finish Last
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Farber, David: Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Graham, Philip: The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Grene, David: Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir
  › Read an excerpt.
• Hartfield, Ronne: Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family
  › Read an excerpt.
• Herrmann, Dorothy: Helen Keller: A Life
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Kaplan, Alice: The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
  › Read an excerpt and an interview.
  
• King, William Davies: Collections of Nothing
  › Read an excerpt and an essay by the author.
  
• Knight, Louise W.: Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• McCloskey, Deirdre N.: Crossing: A Memoir
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Michener, Anna J.: Becoming Anna
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Milton, Edith: The Tiger in the Attic: Memories of the Kindertransport and Growing Up English
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Motion, Andrew: Keats
  › Read an excerpt on Keats, Fanny Brawne, and his poem “Bright Star.”
  
• Narayan, Kirin: My Family and Other Saints
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• O'Brien, Sharon: The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Pritchett, Wendell E.: Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer
  › Read an excerpt
  
• Pyron, Darden Asbury: Liberace: An American Boy
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Reid, Tim: Tim and Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White
  › Read an excerpt
  
• Rotella, Carlo: Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• SAID: Landscapes of a Distant Mother
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• >Shapiro, Alan: The Last Happy Occasion
  › Read a chapter, "Woodstock Puritan"
  
• Shulman, David: Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Segre, Dan Vittorio: Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Siegel, Lee: Who Wrote the Book of Love?
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Veeck, Bill: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
  › Read the first chapter, on the career of Eddie Gaedel.
  
• Watts, Sarah: Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Weiss, Andrea: In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Wyke, Maria: Caesar: A Life in Western Culture
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Cartography and geography

• Akerman, James R.: Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
  › View a selection of unusual maps.
  
• Hewsen, Robert H.: Armenia: A Historical Atlas
  › View sample maps.
  
• Lemmon, Alfred E.: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps
  › See images of maps from the book.
  
• Monmonier, Mark: Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
  › Read an excerpt on television weather maps and forecasting.
  
• Monmonier, Mark: Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America
  › Read Monmonier's list of ten risky places.
  
• Monmonier, Mark: From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
  › Read an excerpt.
• Monmonier, Mark: Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Monmonier, Mark: Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
  › Read a web-only essay, "Eleven Ways You Are Being Watched".
  
• Woodward, David: The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
  › Read the introduction and a detailed table of contents.
  

 Computer and information studies

• Castronova, Edward: Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Hayles, N. Katherine: My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lanham, Richard A.: The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
  › Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
• Lanham, Richard A.: The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
  › An excerpt (Chapter 4).

 Economics and business

• Birkeland, Peter M.: Franchising Dreams: The Lure of Entrepreneurship in America
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Brown, Clair: Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America?
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Caldwell, Bruce: Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
  › Read the introduction.
  
• Castronova, Edward: Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Fogel, Robert William: The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
  › A chart of the Phases of the Four Great Awakenings.
  
• Hayek, F. A.: The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents—The Definitive Edition
  › Read an excerpt about the publication history of The Road to Serfdom.
  
• Lewis, William W.: The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lusardi, Annamaria: Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs
  › Read the introduction.
  
• McCloskey, Deirdre N.: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
  › Read an excerpt.
• Miller, Laura J.: Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Nelson, Julie A.: Economics for Humans
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Education

• Brinkley, Alan: The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
  › Read the introduction and Chapter 10: "Using Electronic Resources for Teaching."
  
• Egan, Kieran: The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
  › Read the introduction.
  
• Garland, James C.:Saving Alma Mater: A Rescue Plan for America's Public Universities
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Goldsmith, John A.: The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School through Tenure
  › Read Chapter Two: "Entering Graduate School."
  
• Lipson, Charles: How to Write a BA Thesis: A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper
  › See a website for the book.
• Lipson, Charles: Succeeding as an International Student in the United States and Canada
  › See a website for the book.
• Matthews, Anne: Bright College Years: Inside the American College Today
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Paley, Vivian Gussin: A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Fiction

• Bernhard, Thomas: The Voice Imitator
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Biro, Adam: Is It Good for the Jews? More Stories from the Old Country and the New
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Biro, Adam: Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New
  › Read a story "The Good Catch."
  
• Cutrufelli, Maria Rosa: In the Forbidden City: An Anthology of Erotic Fiction by Italian Women
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Devi, Maitreyi: It Does Not Die: A Romance
  › A review essay: "A Terrible Hurt: The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi"
  
• Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion
  › See our Friedrich Dürrenmatt website.
  
• Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: The Pledge
  › See our Friedrich Dürrenmatt website.
  
• Dutourd, Jean: A Dog's Head
  › Read the first twelve pages.
  
• Eliade, Mircea: Youth Without Youth
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Ferrucci, Franco: The Life of God (as Told by Himself)
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Guedj, Denis: The Measure of the World: A Novel
  › Read the first chapter.
  
• Guilloux, Louis: OK, Joe
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Maclean, Norman: A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
  › See a website for Norman Maclean.
  
• McMahon, Thomas: McKay's Bees: A Novel
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Scott, Paul: The Raj Quartet
  › See some excerpts from the volumes.
  
• Siegel, Lee: Love and the Incredibly Old Man: A Novel
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Siegel, Lee: Love in a Dead Language
  › Read an excerpt, with illustrations.
  
• Stark, Richard: The Hunter: A Parker Novel (and other books)
  › Read an interview with Donald Westlake.
  

 History

• Allen, Peter Lewis: The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Andriote, John-Manuel: Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Baynton, Douglas C.: Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
  › Read an excerpt from Chapter Two.
  
• Bell, Rudolph M.: How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
  › Take the advice of renaissance Italy in our web feature.
  
• Bess, Michael: The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Brauer, Jurgen and Hubert van Tuyll: Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Brown, David S.: Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing
  › Read an excerpt and an essay by the author.
  
• Brown, David S.: Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Burgoyne, Michael L. and Albert J. Marckwardt: The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: With E. D. Swinton's The Defence of Duffer's Drift
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso: The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
  › Read an excerpt.
• Chappell, Sally A. Kitt: Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Chaplin, Tamara: Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television
  › Read an excerpt.
• Cohen, Patricia Cline, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, and American Antiquarian Society: The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
  › Read an excerpt.
• Cohen, Thomas V.: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
  › Read an excerpt.
• Davis, Lennard J.: Obsession: A History
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• DePastino, Todd: Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
  › Read an excerpt from the book and an interview with the author.
  
• Dunaway, Finis: Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Einhorn, Robin L.: American Taxation, American Slavery
  › Read a special essay, "Tax Aversion and the Legacy of Slavery."
• Elliott, Michael: Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Faas, Patrick: Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Farber, David: Chicago '68
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Feeney, Mark: Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
  › The book's appendix lists all films screened by Nixon during his presidency.
• Frank, Thomas: The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Gere, Cathy: Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
  › Read the introduction.
  
• Gilbert, James: Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science
  › Read "William Jennings Bryan, Scientist," a chapter from the book.
  
• Goldgar, Anne: Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Goldhill, Simon: Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
  › Read an excerpt.
• Graebner, William: Patty's Got a Gun: Patricia Hearst in 1970s America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Grandin, Greg: The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War
  › Read the preface and an interview with the author.
  
• Grossman, James R.: The Encyclopedia of Chicago
  › See a website for the book.
• Hansen, Jonathan M.: The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920
  › Read an excerpt from the book and an interview with the author.
  
• Harris, Leslie M.: In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Harris, Neil: The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
  › Read an interview with the author, see a gallery of covers and illustrations from the magazine and sample pages in PDF (7mb) from the book.
  
• Heap, Chad: Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
  › Read the introduction.
  
• Henkin, David M.: The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  › Read an excerpt from Higginson's journal.
  
• Houlbrook, Matt: Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Howard, John: Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Jasper, James M.: Restless Nation: Starting Over in America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Johns, Adrian: The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
  › Read a web feature "Ten Things You Didn't Know about Your Books."
  
• Johnson, David K.: The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Keating, Ann Durkin: Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
  › See tours of Chicagoland.
  
• Kercher, Stephen E.: Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America
  › Read an excerpt.
• Kitson, Simon: The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France
  › Read an excerpt.
• Kusch, Frank: Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
  › Read an excerpt.
• Ladd, Brian: Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age
  › Read an excerpt.
• Lenthall, Bruce: Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel: The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
  › Read Chapter One: "Pilgrimage to the Valais."
  
• Levenstein, Harvey: Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Levenstein, Harvey: We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lovegren, Sylvia: Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads
  › Read eight recipes.
  
• Macfarlane, Alan: Glass: A World History
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Mayer, Milton: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• McLaren, Angus: Impotence: A Cultural History
  › Read a special feature, “Two Millennia of Impotence Cures.”
  
• Meldahl, Keith Heyer: Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Muller, Eric L.: Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Nagl, John A.: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
  › Read the preface.
  
• Niebuhr, Reinhold: The Irony of American History
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Nossack, Hans Erich: The End: Hamburg 1943
  › Read an excerpt.
• O'Brien, Conor Cruise: The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
  › Read the Epilogue.
  
• Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko: Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
  › Read an excerpt.
• Olick, Jeffrey K.: In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Otto, Beatrice K.: Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World
  › Read an excerpt and an interview.
  
• Owen, Alex: The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Pacyga, Dominic A.: Chicago: A Biography
  › See a gallery of photographs from the book.
  
• Parsons, Neil: King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Peters, John Durham: Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Peters, John Durham: Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
  › Read an excerpt about the dead letter office.
  
• Pinkus, Karen: The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Politkovskaya, Anna: A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Popkin, Jeremy D.: Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection
  › Read an excerpt.
• Redon, Odile: The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy
  › Read six medieval recipes.
  
• Roger, Philippe: The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Rothfield, Lawrence: The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Rozario, Kevin: The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Rudolph, Conrad: Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela
  › Read an excerpt.
• Rydell, Robert W.: Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Sawislak, Karen: Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
  › An excerpt from chapter one gives a brief account of the Great Chicago Fire.
  
• Schultz, John: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Revised Edition
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Schultz, John: No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Schwartz, BarryAbraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Sher, Richard B.: The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Smith, Carl: The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Smith, Carl: Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Smith, Philip: Why War?: The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Torgovnick, Marianna: The War Complex: World War II in Our Time
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Turner, Fred: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
  › Read the introduction and an excerpt.
• Wiese, Andrew: Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• United States Army: Instructions for American Servicemen in France during World War II
  › Read the introduction by Rick Atkinson.
  
• Van Meter, Jan R.: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History
  › Read a web feature on contemporary slogans that we’ll remember.
  
• Wilson, Daniel J.: Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Winter, Alison: Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Wright, Robert E.: Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Wright, Robert E.: The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Law

• Baker, Tom: The Medical Malpractice Myth
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Farber, Daniel A.: Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations
  › Read The Constitutional Foundations of Shirley Edelman's Latkes.
  
• Farber, Daniel A.: Lincoln's Constitution
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Ferguson, Robert A.: The Trial in American Life
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Garner, Bryan A.: Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises
  › See the writing exercises for the book.
  
• Hagan, John: Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal
  › Read an article by the author Ace in the Hole.
  
• Knox, John: The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Kurland, Philip B.: The Founders' Constitution
  › The Founders' Constitution is also acccessible in a web edition.
  
• Manaster, Kenneth A.: Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
  › See transcriptions of original source documents referenced in the book.
  
• Posner, Eric A.: The Perils of Global Legalism
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Viscusi, W. Kip: Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal
  › Read Viscusi's essay based on the book, "Smoked Out."
  

 Literature and criticism

• Appelbaum, Robert: Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Attlee, James: Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bartsch, Shadi: Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern
  › See video clips from the Erotikon conference.
  
• Bloch-Dano, Evelyne: Madame Proust: A Biography
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bonnefoy, Yves: Shakespeare and the French Poet
  › Read John Naughton's interview of Yves Bonnefoy.
• Cernea, Ruth Fredman: The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate
  › Read an excerpt and recipes.
  
• Chandler, James: England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Coetzee, J. M.: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
  › Read an excerpt from the introduction.
  
• Doniger, Wendy: The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Dürrenmatt, Friedrich: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings
  › See our Friedrich Dürrenmatt website.
  
• Friedman, Bruce Jay: Even the Rhinos Were Nymphos: Best Nonfiction
  › Read "Some Thoughts on Clint Eastwood and Heidegger."
  
• Gates, Barbara T.: In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780-1930
  › Read some excerpts.
  
• Grenier, Roger: The Difficulty of Being a Dog
  › Read an excerpt, "The Walk down the Rue du Bac."
  
• Gross, Kenneth: Shylock Is Shakespeare
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Harrison, Robert Pogue: Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Hayles, N. Katherine: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
  › Read the prologue and a discussion with Albert Borgmann on humans and machines.
  
• Hine, Daryl: Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns
  › Read an excerpt.
• Hazzard, Shirley and Francis Steegmuller: The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples
  › Read an excerpt.
• Jager, Eric: The Book of the Heart
  › Read a web-only essay "Reading the Book of the Heart from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century."
  
• Lentricchia, Frank: Crimes of Art and Terror
  › Read an interview with the authors.
  
• Lerer, Seth: Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Maclean, Norman: The Norman Maclean Reader
  › See a website for Norman Maclean.
  
• Maclean, Norman: Young Men and Fire
  › See a website for Norman Maclean.
  
• Piper, Andrew: Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
  › See a supplementary website for the book.
  
• Robinson, Paul: Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters
  › Read Robinson's essay "The Philosophy of Punctuation."
  
• Royko, Mike: For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko
  › Read four classic Royko columns.
  
• Royko, Mike: One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Schmid, David: Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Silver, Brenda R.: Virginia Woolf Icon
  › Read "World Wide Woolf," a web-only essay.
  
• Stern, Lesley: The Smoking Book
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Stern, Richard: What Is What Was
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Szczeklik, Andrzej: Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Tatum, James: The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam
  › Read excerpts on memorials in Vietnam, the battlefields of Troy and Battery Wagner, and the chapter "The Poetry is in the Killing"
  
• Weschler, Lawrence: A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces
  › Read the foreword.
  
• Zischler, Hanns: Kafka Goes to the Movies
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Music

• Averill, Gage: A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti
  › Read an excerpt from the introduction.
  
• Booth, Wayne: For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bromell, Nick: Tomorrow Never Knows
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Buch, Esteban: Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Faulkner, Robert R. and Howard S. Becker: "Do You Know...?" The Jazz Repertoire in Action
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Gendron, Bernard: Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Gennari, John: Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics
  › Read an excerpt and an outlined soundtrack to the book.
• Gossett, Philip: Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
  › Read an excerpt.
• Grazian, David: Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Gussow, Adam: Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Kenney, William Howland: Jazz on the River
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lewis, George E.: A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Melograni, Piero: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Nicassio, Susan Vandiver: Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective
  › Read a web feature: "Ten Things You Didn't Know about Tosca."
  
• Peterson, Richard A.: Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity
  › Read a web exclusive: "Ten Things You Didn't Know about the Origins of Country Music."
  
• Toscanini, Arturo: The Letters of Arturo Toscanini
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• van Orden, Kate: Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France
  › View a one-minute video of an equestrian ballet performance. (Video is 3.5 Mb in .wmv format.)

 Philosophy

• Afary, Janet: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Agamben, Giorgio: State of Exception
  › Read an excerpt.
• Aronson, Ronald: Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Benardete, Seth: Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Borgmann, Albert: Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
  › Read the introduction and a discussion with N. Katherine Hayles on humans and machines.
  
• Borgmann, Albert: Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Borradori, Giovanna: Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Braude, Stephen E.: The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Derrida, Jacques: The Work of Mourning
  › Our website in remembrance of Derrida includes an excerpt from this book.
• Gross, Neil: Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Krell, David Farrell: The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image
  › Our web feature, "Nietzsche: The Problem of Autumn," includes twenty-seven additional photos, commentary, and quotes from Nietzsche.
  
• Perloff, Marjorie: Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
  › Read a short excerpt from the introduction.
  
• Smith, Steven B.: Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
  › Read an excerpt.
• Taylor, Mark C.: Hiding
  › Our web feature for the book including an interview with Taylor, sample pages, and an essay by the book's designers.
  
• Taylor, Mark C.: The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture
  › Read an excerpt
  

 Poetry

• Baudelaire, Charles: Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
  › Read three poems.
  
• Bernstein, Charles: My Way: Speeches and Poems
  › Read a web special "Against National Poetry Month as Such."
  
• Caws, Mary Ann: Surrealist Love Poems
  › Read three poems from the book.
  
• Hernandez, Miguel: The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez: A Bilingual Edition
  › Read three poems.
  
• Hugo, Victor: Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition
  › Read four poems.
  
• Jacobsen, Rolf: North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition
  › Read three poems.
  
• Mazur, Gail: They Can't Take That Away from Me
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Michelangelo: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
  › Read three poems.
  
• Nemerov, Howard: War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
  › Read two poems about the space shuttle.
  
• Rimbaud, Jean Nicholas Arthur: Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
  › Read five poems.
  
• Stewart, Susan: Columbarium
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Verlaine, Paul: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition
  › Read four poems.
  

 Politics and current events

• Allen, Danielle S.: Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
  › Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
  
• Baker, Dean: Social Security: The Phony Crisis
  › Read an excerpt and an op-ed by the authors.
  
• Bennett, W. Lance, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston: When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Berns, Walter: Making Patriots
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bryan, Frank M.: Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Entman, Robert M.: The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
  › Read the Entman-Rojecki Index of Race and the Media.
  
• Geer, John G.: In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns
  › See the John Geer Attack Ad Hall of Fame.
  
• Glaude, Eddie S.: In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites: No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Hart, Stephen: Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics: Styles of Engagement among Grassroots Activists
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Jacobs, Lawrence R.: Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Jacobs, Lawrence R.: Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America
  › See additional data and documentation about the survey done for the book.
  
• Keck, Thomas M.: The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Klinkner, Philip A.: The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lakoff, George: Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lott, Jr., John R.: More Guns, Less Crime
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Machiavelli, Niccoló: Art of War
  › Read aphorisms from the book.
  
• McCaffery, Edward J.: Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• McCaffery, Edward J.: Taxing Women
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Mendelsohn, Barak: Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Minow, Newton N. and Craig L. LaMay: Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future
  › See memorable moments from presidential debates and read an excerpt.
  
• Monmonier, Mark: Bushmanders and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections
  › Read a web-only essay, "Spotting Bushmanders."
  
• Samples, John: The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Samples, John: The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Shane, Peter M.: Madison’s Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Shaviro, Daniel: Who Should Pay for Medicare?
  › Read an excerpt and an op-ed by the author.
  
• Shulman, David: Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Sunstein, Cass R.: The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court
  › See the online draft edition of the book.
  
• Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America
  › Read two chapters: "On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life" and "Why the Americans Show Themselves So Restive in the Midst of Their Well-Being."
  
• United States Army and United States Marine Corps: The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
  › Read an excerpt, “Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations”, and the foreword by Lt. Colonel John A. Nagl.
  
• Valelly, Richard M.: The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement
  › Read an op-ed by the author.
  
• Walsh, Katherine Cramer: Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life
  › Read an essay based on the book.
  
• Weinberger, Eliot: 9/12: New York After
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Yoo, John: The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Zuckert, Catherine H.: The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Reference and writing

• Basalla, Susan: "So What Are You Going to Do with That?" Finding Careers Outside Academia
  › See a website for the book.
• Bielstein, Susan M.: Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property
  › Read an excerpt.
• Booth, Wayne C.: The Craft of Research, Third Edition
  › Read an interview with the authors.
  
• Crystal, David: Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages
  › Take the Words on Words Challenge.
  
• Dunne, Will: The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Germano, William: From Dissertation to Book
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Germano, William: Getting It Published, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books
  › Read a chapter "What Do Publishers Do?"
  
• Kern, Jonathan: Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Kuhn, Jeffrey S.: The Rules of Golf in Plain English, Second Edition
  › See a website for the book.
• Lassiter, Luke Eric: The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Levieux, Eleanor: Insiders' French: Beyond the Dictionary
  › See sample entries.
  
• Lipson, Charles: Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success, Second Edition
  › See a website for the book.
• Miller, Jane E.: The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis
  › A study guide of exercises is available online.
  
• Miller, Jane E.: The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers
  › A study guide of exercises is available online.
  
• Norton, Scott: Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers
  › Read the introduction.
  
• Pharies, David A.: The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Spanish-English, English-Spanish: Universidad de Chicago Diccionario Espanol-Ingles, Ingles-Espanol
  › See the website for the dictionary.
  
• Saller, Carol Fisher: The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Shweder, Richard A.: The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
  › See a website for the book.
  
• Turabian, Kate L.: A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers
  › See a website for the book.
• University of Chicago Press Staff: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition
  › The Chicago Manual of Style Online has free content for writers and editors, plus the text of the Fifteenth Edition by annual subscription.
  

 Religion

• Appleby, R. Scott: Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Brague, Rémi: The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
  › Read an interview with Brague.
  
• Cadge, Wendy: Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Greeley, Andrew M.: Priests: A Calling in Crisis
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Greeley, Andrew: The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Hendershot, Heather: Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Jordan, Mark D.: The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism
  › Read Jordan's "9.5 Theses on Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism."
  
• Kass, Leon R.: The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Kripal, Jeffrey J.: Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lincoln, Bruce: Holy Terrors, Second Edition: Thinking About Religion After September 11
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lopez Jr., Donald S.: Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
  › Read a web feature "Seven Things You Didn't Know about Tibet."
  
• Lopez Jr., Donald S.: Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
  ›Read a web feature, "Six Episodes from Buddhism and Science."
  
• Porter, J. R.: The Lost Bible: Forgotten Scriptures Revealed
  › View a few sample pages.
  
• Schwartz, Regina M.: The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Taylor, Mark C.: Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption
  › See Taylor's timeline of emerging network culture.
  
• Taylor, Mark C.: Critical Terms for Religious Studies
  › Our guide to the book including an excerpt from the introduction.
  › Taylor's op-ed "Religious Correctness."
  

 Science

• Barrow, Jr., Mark V.:Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bass, Karen: Nature's Great Events
  › See videos from the BBC series and a gallery of photographs from the book.
  
• Bekoff, Marc: Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bernhardt, Peter: The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History of Flowers
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Biagioli, Mario: Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Boggs, Carol L.: Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight
  › A website for the book with additional data material.
  
• Bowler, Peter J.: Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
  › See research documents referenced in the book.
  
• Buhs, Joshua Blu: Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legendt
  › Read an excerpt, an interview with the author, and Buhs in dialogue with Sigrid Schmalzer about Bigfoot and the yeren.
  
• Calvin, William H.: A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Cheney, Dorothy L. and Robert M. Seyfarth: Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Christopher, Thomas: In Search of Lost Roses
  › Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
  
• Collins, Harry: Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Crump, Marty: Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Crump, Marty: In Search of the Golden Frog
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Crump, Marty: Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Elton, Charles S.: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Forsberg, Michael: Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild
  › See a gallery of photographs from the book and video slideshow.
  
• Garwin, Laura: A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries that Changed Science and the World
  › Read excerpts from the book.
  
• Gazzaniga, Michael S.: The Ethical Brain
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Gee, Henry: Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life
  › Color versions of thirteen illustrations that appear only in black-and-white in the text.
  
• Grande, Lance: Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
  › See a gallery of photographs from the book and sample pages (PDF format, .8Mb).
  
• Greenberg, Joel: A Natural History of the Chicago Region
  › Only on the web: Greenberg's "Naturalist's Tour of Southern Lake Michigan."
  
• Greenberg, Daniel S.: Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion
  › Read a web-only summary: "The Hidden Dynamics of the Great American Scientific Enterprise."
  
• Griffin, Donald R.: Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
  › Read "In Favor of Animal Consciousness" from the first chapter.
  
• Hedman, Matthew: The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Hughes, Thomas P.: Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Kaufman, Sharon R.: And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
  › Read an excerpt.
• LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski: Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
  › Read an excerpt.
• Lambertini, Marco: A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Lambin, Eric: The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe
  › Read an excerpt.
• Laszlo, Pierre: Citrus: A History
  › See six citrus recipes.
• Laurance, William: Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Macnamara, Peggy: Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art
  › See some paintings from the book.
  
• Maloney, Cathy Jean: Chicago Gardens: The Early History
  › See five legacy gardens.
  
• Mech, L. David: Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Meinesz, Alexandre: Killer Algae
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Melia, Fulvio: Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Millenson, Michael L.: Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Mitchell, Alanna: Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Mitchell, W. J. T.: The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
  › Our web feature includes an interview, an excerpt, images, and more.
  
• Mittermeier, Russell A.: Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places
  › See an illustrated list of 37 wilderness areas.
  
• Montgomery, Scott L.: The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science
  › Read an excerpt on online communication.
  
• Murdin, Paul: Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos
  › See a gallery of photographs from the book and sample pages (PDF format, 1.3Mb).
  
• Newman, William R.: Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
  › Read an excerpt.
• Nicholls, Steve: Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
  › Read an excerpt.
• Nouvian, Claire: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
  › See images from the book.
  
• Prager, Ellen: Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Rabinow, Paul: French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Richerson, Peter J.: Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
  › Read an excerpt.
• Ross, Stephanie: What Gardens Mean
  › Read an excerpt describing four 18th-century English landscape gardens.
  
• Schaller, George B.: The Last Panda
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Schneider, Eric D.: Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Secord, James A.: Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Shapin, Steven:The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Silvertown, Jonathan: Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Silvertown, Jonathan: An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Stanovich, Keith E.: The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Sullivan, Jerry: Hunting for Frogs on Elston, and Other Tales from Field & Street
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Sunquist, Mel: Wild Cats of the World
  › Read an excerpt on the domestic cat.
  
• The University of Chicago Press: Science and Technology Encyclopedia
  › View some sample pages.
  
• Walls, Laura Dassow: The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
  › Read an excerpt.
  

 Sociology

• Altman, Dennis: Global Sex
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Bearman, Peter: Doormen
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Becker, Howard S.: Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
  › Read the first chapter.
  
• Brooks, Scott N.: Black Men Can't Shoot
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Clarke, Lee: Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination
  › Read an interview with the author.
  
• Crane, Diana: Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• de La Pradelle, Michèle: Market Day in Provence
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Desmond, Matthew: On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Epstein, Steven: Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst: Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine
  › Read an excerpt on the film Babette's Feast.
  
• Frohock, Fred M.: Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism
  › Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
  
• Gamson, Joshua: Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
  › Read an interview and excerpt.
  
• Goldfarb, Jeffrey C.: The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Grazian, David: On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Grindstaff, Laura: The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Gullette, Margaret Morganroth: Aged by Culture
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Harper, Douglas: Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture
  › Read interview with the author about farming as craft and as factory.
  
• Jackson, John L.: Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America
  › Read an excerpt.
  
• Klinenberg, Eric: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
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• Laumann, Edward O.: The Sexual Organization of the City
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• Long, Elizabeth: Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life
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• McRoberts, Omar M.: Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood
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• Mechling, Jay: On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth
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• Mitchell Jr., Richard G.: Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times
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• Nardi, Peter M.: Gay Men's Friendships: Invincible Communities
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• Pager, Devah: Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
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• Pattillo, Mary: Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
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• Pattillo-McCoy, Mary: Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
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• Rupp, Leila J.: Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret
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• Timmermans, Stefan: Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
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• Turow, Joseph: Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World
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