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We're pleased to make this very important book available for free as an ebook for a limited time. With compassion and careful skill, Laurence Ralph amplifies the voices of the victims of police violence.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Doug Mitchell, who, until his retirement in December, served as an acquisitions editor for 41 years making vital contributions to gay and lesbian studies, sociology, history, and rhetoric.
We're excited to share some very BIG poetry news: Phoenix Poets Series to Relaunch in 2023 with Srikanth Reddy as Editor, Rosa Alcalá, Douglas Kearney, and Katie Peterson as Consulting Editors. Read more:
#PhoenixPoets
Our annual sale is one of the biggest university press book sales in the country! Now through June 15th, 2022 you can get thought-provoking, independently published books for up to 90% off with code AD1958 on our site:
We're excited to share the news about Phenomenal World Books—a new series with
@phenomenalworld
@uchicagopress
, focused on the most exciting research in political economy. Read more here:
In MAKING MEXICAN CHICAGO, Mike Amezcua explores how the Windy City became a Latinx metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century, offering a powerful multiracial history of Chicago. Read more in an excerpt on our blog:
@DrMikeAmezcua
We're thrilled to share that
@DrMikeAmezcua
has won the 2023
@SACRPH
Lewis Mumford Prize for his book MAKING MEXICAN CHICAGO! Congratulations, Mike! Learn more:
As of today, the Chicago Distribution Center has reopened and is fully operational with strict safety guidelines in place. We are glad to be able to return to the work of supporting our community of readers & bookselling partners. We appreciate your patience and support!
If you want to understand our nuclear secrecy regime & its history, Alex Wellerstein's RESTRICTED DATA is THE book. We've made it 50% off for a week if you buy direct on our website. Use the code SECRET50 at checkout.
@wellerstein
We're hiring! We're seeking an editor to acquire books in anthropology and history & build on our strengths in cutting-edge theory; ethnography; world history; history of sexuality; Asian, European, environmental, and intellectual history. More details:
Congratulations to Eve L. Ewing, author of GHOSTS IN THE SCHOOLYARD, recipient of the 2020 Gordon J. Laing Award for the book by a UChicago faculty author that has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the UChicago Press.
@eveewing
We are proud to share the news that we are one of six university presses who've been awarded grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation designed to diversify academic publishing by offering apprenticeships in acquisitions departments.
Love books? Love talking about books? We're hiring! Join the marketing & promotions team of one of the oldest, largest, and most prestigious university presses in the US.
Sometimes you want to read,
sometimes you need to read.
There are some books we need now.
We have eleven e-books on racism in America
priced at $1.99 each until June 26.
See the list and use code JUNE199 at checkout
(Also $1.99 at ebook retailers)
Boris Karloff at his best: in honor of the season, if you've never heard Karloff tell the story of the appointment in Samarra, check out this
@tcm
clip from
@blogdanovich
's Targets (1968). It's well worth 3 minutes of your time.
#Halloween
We are excited to share that Dong Li is the recipient of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize! Li's book and a new work by Annelyse Gelman will be published in Spring 2023 as part of the Phoenix Poets Series relaunch. Read more:
#NationalPoetryMonth
The Association for Asian Studies meeting may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 35% off and free domestic shipping using EX57634 here:
#AAS2024
Learn more about visionary painter Hilma af Klint during this free online event hosted by
@morbidanatomy
. Julia Voss, author of HILMA AF KLINT: PAINTER AND REVOLUTIONARY MYSTIC, will discuss af Klint's life, work, and spiritual worldview:
Can a painting think in ways that language can’t? And how can we think with an image? In Hanneke Grootenboer’s beautiful new book, THE PENSIVE IMAGE, she explores how artworks themselves form thoughts and point beyond interpretation.
Enormous congratulations to Press author
@mervatim
, recipient of both the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle
@bookcritics
and a Silvers-Dudley Prize from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation
@silversfound
!
"In
@BlairKamin
's masterful hand, architectural criticism is about far more than design. It is a civic project: a public conversation about politics, the public good, and the promise of urban life."
@ALA_Booklist
on WHO IS THE CITY FOR?
@LEEBEY
:
How did the Windy City become a Mexican-American metropolis? Join
@DrMikeAmezcua
and
@DrMChatelain
on 3/24 for a discussion of Mike's new book MAKING MEXICAN CHICAGO, sponsored by
@SeminaryCoop
:
Many cheers to Dean Blobaum, who over the last 31 years has been leading the Press boldly into the technological future. We're going to miss you and your progressive spirit, but wish you a wonderful retirement!
@UCPbooks
Our biggest e-book sale of the year is here! Now through August 23 you can get any e-book published by the University of Chicago Press on our website for ⚡️75% off!⚡️
Use code EBOOK75 at checkout to get this exclusive offer!
With METAMODERNISM, Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm (
@Ghost_Image_
) moves beyond postmodern critiques, offering a new model for theory. “Ambitious, lucid, and erudite, this is a book that demands to be read and argued over.”—Rita Felski, University of Virginia
Free for Black History Month: Eve L. Ewing's vital and important study of systemic racism in Chicago's school closings, GHOSTS IN THE SCHOOLYARD. Download the e-book for free from our website with code BHMEBOOK:
@eveewing
Oceans in Depth will publish works that put the ocean at the center of our narratives about the past.
Find the series and submission info here:
@oceanhistories
#HST2021
Party time!!!
October 18: join us for the launch party for
@eveewing
's Ghosts in the Schoolyard!
Right here in Chicago at the Chicago Teachers Union building--details & tickets at the link:
"Getting to read this book made my week."
Dmitry Samarov is full of praise for
@whet
's book on Chicago, out in October from
@reaktionbooks
.
Chicagoans: you know how good Whet Moser is at analyzing our city—you're gonna want this book.
@ChicagoDistrib
The first book in our Ocean Depth series is now forthcoming: OCEANS UNDER GLASS by
@aquariumglass
, a welcome dive into the world of aquarium craft.
Find series and submission details here:
@oceanhistories
#ASEH2022
The American Association of Geographers meeting is underway! You can now browse our virtual exhibit. Check out our featured books and get 30% off & free domestic shipping with promo code EX57726!
#AAG2024
Spread the word! We're looking for a new Promotions Assistant to support our book promotions and publicity team! It's a fantastic entry into the world of academic publishing, and you get to work with our world-class Marketing Department. More info here:
After the recent articles about the failures of fact-checking in trade publishing, it's reassuring to sit with a docket of peer reviews and be reminded that scholarly publishing is built upon the care that all of our readers, experts in their fields, put into vetting our books.
"The simple argument is that President Trump behaves more like the toddler in chief than the commander in chief. The less simple argument is that having a president who behaves like a toddler is a more serious problem today than it would have been, say, 50 years ago."
With his death, we also remember him as a friend and mentor, a joyful champion of authors and their ideas, and a passionate musician. Our thoughts go out to his family, and we will share news on a memorial service as soon as we have them.
In RETHINKING HYPOTHYROIDISM, Dr. Antonio C. Bianco, a physician who has studied the disease for decades, offers an accessible overview of its treatment, making the case that the current approach is failing many patients. Read an excerpt:
For book lovers, this is the best time of the year—because it's best-of time!
@NPR
has chosen their bests-of-the year, and
@eveewing
's "poignant & deeply troubling" Ghosts in the Schoolyard &
@polarworld
's "handsome" The Writer's Map are among them!
If you’ve enjoyed
@UrbanHistoryA
's
#urbanhistorymonth
, you’ll love our Historical Studies of Urban America series:
And browse our exhibit for 30% off & free shipping on a selection of our
#urbanhistory
books here:
Poets, the open reading period for Chicago's Phoenix Poets series, edited by Srikanth Reddy, starts now. Submit your manuscript through 10/31. Submission guidelines are available here:
#PhoenixPoets
Odysseus is setting sail for Ithaca once more . . .
We are proud to announce that we will be publishing a new translation of The Odyssey by
@DMendelsohn1960
!
He's hard at work right now; we promise it will be in bookstores in far less time than it took Odysseus to get home.
⚡FLASH SALE⚡ ALL Chicago e-books are 75% off through August 24th. Use the code EBOOK75 on our website. Mystery or history, you don't have to choose. Time to snatch up some titles for the cooler months ahead.
Join us in honoring David Myer Temin, the co-winner of the APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Prize for his book Remapping Sovereignty! You can check out the book for 30% off at our booth or our virtual exhibit: !
#APSA2024
Congratulations to Deborah Nelson, recipient of this year's Laing Award for her book Tough Enough. The award is conferred annually by the Board of University Publications on the faculty author whose book has brought the greatest distinction to Press's list in the past 2yrs.
We're celebrating
#ValentinesDay
with a flash sale! Now through February 14th, use promo code XOCMOS to get a sweet 50% off the print edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth Edition. Just $35 (regularly $70).
@ChicagoManual
Cover reveal! Though it may have been 24 degrees in Chicago this morning, our beautiful SPRING 2020 catalog is off to the printer. We look forward to sharing all 375 pages and 669 titles with you soon.
Examining the nature of craft, skill, and scientific knowledge,
@ps2270
considers how and why European craftspeople began to record their making practices, passing down their knowledge through handbooks, guides, recipe books, and more.
@MakingKnowing
It's
#StoicWeek
. Even if you're not living like a stoic this week, you can read like one. THE POCKET STOIC by John Sellars offers a concise introduction to the essential ideas and thinkers, which remain incredibly relevant in our pandemic times.
@StoicWeek
How did we decide that professors don’t deserve job security or a decent salary? Herb Childress, author of "The Adjunct Underclass," looks at the unfortunate truth of how we've discarded the idea of college faculty. via
@chronicle
"What we’ve missed is that someone doesn’t have to be incarcerated, found guilty or even go to court in order for the prospect of criminalization to change their lives for the worse."
@ForrestDStuart
on life in America's overpoliced underclass:
#MLA21
attendees, we wish we could show you all of these wonderful new lit crit books in person, but our virtual exhibit is almost as good. All the books are available at the meeting discount of 40% off with free shipping!
@MLAnews
The need for clear, informed, and effective communication of science information to the general public has never been greater. For all the scicommers of the world, we’ve put together a
#SciComm
toolkit of books over on our blog.
Named one of the ten best Chicago books of 2020 by the Chicago Reader, SUN RA’S CHICAGO grounds the music and interstellar cosmology of the visionary jazz artist in the postwar culture of Chicago's South Side.
“I think the first thing is to understand public schools as public goods, and that these are all of our schools, regardless of whether you have a child enrolled there or not.”
@eveewing
taking about Ghosts in the Schoolyard on
@TheDailyShow
:
Hello, environmental historians! Even though
#ASEH2023
is coming to an end, there’s still time to browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping on new
#EnvHist
books with promo code EX57400: /
@ASEH_org
“Two books that bring secrets to light—must-reads for anyone interested in how government shapes science.”
Our Editor’s Choice books for
#4S2021
are RESTRICTED DATA by
@wellerstein
& SCIENCE ON A MISSION by
@NaomiOreskes
!
Dive into the layers of the Earth and nature with STRATA. Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, this is the 1st collection of the intricate maps of 19th-century geologist William Smith. Here’s a peek inside this stunning (and massive) new book!
@morethanadodo
Join our team! We are now hiring for a 14-month internship, aimed at increasing diversity in publishing. With the support of
@aupresses
&
@MellonFdn
, the program brings fellows into the acquisition departments of 6 university presses. Apply here:
Congratulations to Chicago faculty authors
@RobinBartram1
and Jenny Trinitapoli! Stacked Decks is the 2024 winner of the Max Weber Book Award and An Epidemic of Uncertainty won the 2024 Sociology of Development and Sociology of Population awards!
#ASA24
#ASA2024
Melissa Osborne, author of POLISHED, was interviewed for the
@NewBooksNetwork
! She discusses the connection between higher education and social inequalities in the United States.
Listen here:
#authorinterview
#collegeadmissions
SHODDY CRAP. A perfect pair and by no means a statement on our books. Histories of the textiles and cheap goods that define our consumer lives.
#nationalbookmonth
We're celebrating
#PrideMonth
🏳️🌈 with a reading list that highlights queer history, culture, and creativity. Use code PRIDEMONTH on our website to save 30% on our entire LGBTQ+ studies subject list (excluding e-books), now through June 30:
UChicagoPress and the Chicago Distribution Center are excited to announce a new distribution partnership with the University of Texas Press throughout North America starting July 1, 2021. Welcome friends from the Lone Star state!
@UTexasPress