Recent and forthcoming
general interest books

from the University of Chicago Press

Our latest general interest books

• Nature’s Great Events
  Karen Bass, General Editor  •  See a gallery of photographs from the book, sample pages in PDF format, and videos from the BBC version of the series.
• Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
  Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
• A General History of Quadrupeds: The Figures Engraved on Wood
  Thomas Bewick
• Black Men Can’t Shoot
  Scott N. Brooks  •  Read an excerpt.
• Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing
  David S. Brown  •  Read an excerpt and Brown’s essay on the fiftieth anniversary of William Appleman Williams’s The Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
• Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend
  Joshua Blu Buhs  •  Read an excerpt and an interview with the author.
• The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa: With E. D. Swinton’s The Defence of Duffer’s Drift
  Michael L. Burgoyne and Albert J. Marckwardt  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Dramatic Writer’s Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories
  Will Dunne  •  Read an excerpt.
• Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding
  Jed Fielding
• Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
  Cathy Gere
• Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
  Chad Heap  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
  Dave Hickey
• Corporate Tribalism: White Men/White Women and Cultural Diversity at Work
  Thomas Kochman and Jean Mavrelis
• Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
  Steve Nicholls  •  Read an excerpt.
• Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
  Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs
• Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
  Robert Pinsky
• The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
  Lawrence Rothfield  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
  Carol Fisher Saller  •  Read the introduction.
• Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity
  Ben-Ami Scharfstein  •  Read an excerpt.
• Madison’s Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy
  Peter M. Shane  •  Read an excerpt.
• 99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up
  Edited by Jonathan Silvertown
• An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds
  Jonathan Silvertown  •  Read an excerpt.
• The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America’s Weather
  Jack Williams  •  See a website of supplementary material and sample pages in PDF format.

General interest books now in paperback

• A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
  Ben Hecht
• Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
  Harry V. Jaffa
• The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations
  J. M. G. Le Clézio
• Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
  Devah Pager  •  Read an excerpt.
• No One Was Killed: The Democratic National Convention, August 1968
  John Schultz  •  Read an excerpt.
• The Jugger: A Parker Novel
  The Mourner: A Parker Novel
  The Score: A Parker Novel
  Richard Stark  •  Read an interview with the author.
• Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick
  Jenny Uglow

Forthcoming general interest books

• In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition
  Gendun Chopel
• Nature’s Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
  Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
• Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
  Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner
• Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New
  Adam Biro
• Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers: & Other Unusual Relationships
  Marty Crump
• Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America
  Lee Alan Dugatkin
• Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting
  Dietmar Elger
• "Do You Know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action
  Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker
• Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City
  Liam T. A. Ford
• Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild
  Michael Forsberg  •  See sample pages in PDF format.
• Saving Alma Mater: A Rescue Plan for America’s Public Universities
  James C. Garland
• The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon
  Philip Graham
• Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
  Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
• Cougar: Ecology and Conservation
  Edited by Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri
• Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
  Adrian Johns
• Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding
  Noel Kingsbury
• Breeding Bio Insecurity: How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure
  Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester
• Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
  Fulvio Melia
• Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation
  Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz
• Seasick: Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth
  Alanna Mitchell
• Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos
  Paul Murdin
• From Mesopotamia to Iraq: A Concise History
  Hans J. Nissen
• Chicago: A Biography
  Dominic A. Pacyga
• The Perils of Global Legalism
  Eric A. Posner
• The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
  Harriet Ritvo
• The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion
  Edited by Richard A. Shweder
• Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University
  Gaye Tuchman
• The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
  Laura Dassow Walls