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  may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipp...
10/26/2025

may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping using code EX58158: https://buff.ly/9KWlWEW

Attending  ? Discover Paul F. Berliner’s A Prodigy’s Calling, documenting the life and legacy of Zimbabwean master music...
10/25/2025

Attending ? Discover Paul F. Berliner’s A Prodigy’s Calling, documenting the life and legacy of Zimbabwean master musician Cosmas Magaya and his enduring cultural influence. Read more in our Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series: https://buff.ly/tNDiGbO

The open submission period for the Phoenix Poets series is closing soon! We are accepting poetry manuscript submissions ...
10/24/2025

The open submission period for the Phoenix Poets series is closing soon! We are accepting poetry manuscript submissions through October 31. Guidelines and more information can be found at phoenixpoets.org, and questions can be sent to [email protected].

The book series Phoenix Poets published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

At  ? Step into the postcolonial Caribbean soundscape of Jessica Swanston Baker’s Island Time, which highlights wylers, ...
10/24/2025

At ? Step into the postcolonial Caribbean soundscape of Jessica Swanston Baker’s Island Time, which highlights wylers, a popular music style that carries the region’s history. From our Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series: https://buff.ly/tNDiGbO

Heading to  ? Don’t miss Thomas Hodgson’s Journeys of Love, exploring the musical lives of Muslim migrants in England. L...
10/24/2025

Heading to ? Don’t miss Thomas Hodgson’s Journeys of Love, exploring the musical lives of Muslim migrants in England. Learn more with our Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series: https://buff.ly/tNDiGbO

At this year’s  ? Check out Gurminder Kaur Bhogal’s Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys, and trace the pathways of Sikh devotio...
10/23/2025

At this year’s ? Check out Gurminder Kaur Bhogal’s Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys, and trace the pathways of Sikh devotional music across time and place. Part of our Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series: https://buff.ly/tNDiGbO

In *Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound*, Megan Poole invites us into a moving study of how encou...
10/23/2025

In *Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound*, Megan Poole invites us into a moving study of how encounters with beauty advance scientific study. On our blog, read an excerpt on "Hearing Leviathan Sing":

Author Essays, Interviews, and Excerpts, Literature, Philosophy, Science Hearing Leviathan Sing, an Excerpt from “Listening to Beauty” by Megan Poole October 23, 2025October 22, 2025 by PublicityTeam In Listening to Beauty: Rhetorics of Science in Sea and Sound, Megan Poole invites us into a mov...

At the Society for Ethnomusicology meeting this year? We'll see you there! Whether you're attending or not, you can now ...
10/23/2025

At the Society for Ethnomusicology meeting this year? We'll see you there! Whether you're attending or not, you can now browse our virtual exhibit. Check out our featured books and get 30% off & free domestic shipping with promo code EX58158: https://buff.ly/9KWlWEW

In her new book, Ray Madoff pulls back the curtain on how the ultra-rich legally sidestep the tax system the rest of us ...
10/21/2025

In her new book, Ray Madoff pulls back the curtain on how the ultra-rich legally sidestep the tax system the rest of us navigate.

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Hello Philadelphia! Join Sanya Carley tonight at Head House Books to celebrate her new book, POWER LINES, discussing the...
10/21/2025

Hello Philadelphia! Join Sanya Carley tonight at Head House Books to celebrate her new book, POWER LINES, discussing the human cost and future of American energy. RSVP today:

📅 Date: October 21 @ 6:30pm
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Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, THE WORLD IN A PHRASE is an entertaining tour th...
10/20/2025

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, THE WORLD IN A PHRASE is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world. In this interview from the Harvard Gazette, aphorism lover and author James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media.

Aphorism lover and historian James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media.

Join Elliott Kalan, author of JOKE FARMING, for "Funny on Purpose: The Craft of Writing Comedy," a free, virtual event h...
10/18/2025

Join Elliott Kalan, author of JOKE FARMING, for "Funny on Purpose: The Craft of Writing Comedy," a free, virtual event hosted by The Writer's Bridge! Being funny on purpose is a learnable skill, whether you’re writing memoir, fiction, or anything in between. Learn more on October 21 at 1:00 PM Eastern! https://buff.ly/KztZEe6

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Since its origins in 1890 as one of the three main divisions of the University of Chicago, the Press has embraced as its mission the obligation to disseminate scholarship of the highest standard and to publish serious works that promote education, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. Through our books and journals, we seek not only to advance scholarly conversation within and across traditional disciplines but, in keeping with the University of Chicago's experimental tradition, to help define new areas of knowledge and intellectual endeavor. In addition to publishing the results of research for communities of scholars, the Press presents innovative scholarship in ways that inform and engage general readers. We develop reference works and educational texts that draw upon and support the emphases of our scholarly programs and that extend the intellectual reach of the Press. We publish significant non-scholarly work by writers, artists, and intellectuals from within and beyond the academy; translations of important foreign-language texts, both historical and contemporary; and books that contribute to the public's understanding of Chicago and its region. In all of this, the Press is guided by the judgment of individual editors who work to build a broad but coherent publishing program engaged with authors and readers around the world. The Press also recognizes the obligation to match the form of our publications to our readers' needs by pursuing innovations in print and electronic technologies. In our books and journals programs as well as in our distribution business, the Press pioneers new ways of extending the availability and accessibility of knowledge, and the intellectual exchange that thrives on them.

BOOKS DIVISION

The Books Division of the University of Chicago Press has been publishing books for scholars, students, and general readers since 1892. The Books Division has published more than eleven thousand books since the Press was founded. It has more than five thousand books in print at the present time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn; A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean; and The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek.

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