Read an Excerpt from “The Pandemic Workplace”
September 30, 2024
In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the pandemic. In this excerpt, we share a snippet from the book’s introduction. Introduction At some point in the week of March 9, 2020, people’s daily lives in the United States
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Read an Excerpt from “Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era” by Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler
September 24, 2024
As Americans digest the first—and possibly last—Presidential Debate, many questions now loom even larger than before concerning the future of American democracy. Today’s politics reflect one of the most polarized ideological landscapes in our nation’s history—one where national politics subsume and transform local politics. The result: American democracy finds itself
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Read an Interview with Poet Jonathan Thirkield, author of “Infinity Pool”
September 19, 2024
Continuing our series of interviews with the poets in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re happy to feature Jonathan Thirkield, whose new collection, Infinity Pool, publishes this month. Jonathan discusses a range or influences and methodologies that impact his work—from coding languages and AI to grief and chronic illness. He invites
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5 Questions with Meredith McKittrick, author of “Green Lands for White Men”
September 17, 2024
In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, but government experts insisted that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when
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What to Read for National Dog Day
August 26, 2024
As we wrap up the dog days of summer, we are excited to mark one last, very different sort of dog day before the arrival of autumn: National Dog Day on August 26. To celebrate National Dog Day this year, we have put together a reading list of books new
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The University Betrayed: The Lost Promise of the 1960s, a Guest Post from Ellen Schrecker
August 15, 2024
In  The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, Ellen Schrecker illuminates how American universities’ explosive growth intersected with the turmoil of the 1960s, fomenting an unprecedented crisis where dissent over racial inequality and the Vietnam War erupted into direct action. Torn by internal power struggles and demonized by conservative
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What to Read for Women in Translation Month
August 6, 2024
In honor of Women in Translation Month, we are pleased to share this exciting list of recent books from the University of Chicago Press and our marketing distribution client publishers that evidence the evocative power of women’s writing from around the globe. From The University of Chicago Press Slashing Sounds
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Mann Gulch: A National Legacy at Seventy-Five, a Guest Post from John N. Maclean
August 5, 2024
August 5, 2024, marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Montana’s deadly Mann Gulch fire, immortalized by Norman Maclean in his best-selling book, Young Men and Fire. Today, Maclean’s son, John N. Maclean, will deliver this speech for an anniversary observance at Montana’s state capital in Helena. A quarter century ago, Bob
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5 Questions with Roberta L. Millstein, author of “The Land Is Our Community”
August 1, 2024
Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic essay, published posthumously in A Sand County Almanac, Leopold advocated for an expansion of our ethical obligations beyond the purely human to include what
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Posts published in “Sports”

Get Ready for MLB Opening Day with These Books

By PublicityTeam on March 28, 2024

Opening day 2024 is fast approaching with all its excitement and anticipation. However, unless you are a Diamondbacks fan, you were probably disappointed with your team in 2023. (In Chicago, we got a double dose of disappointment.) Perhaps you aren’t hopeful for the 2024 season. If that’s the case, why

In Celebration of “The Hidden Game of Football”

By PublicityTeam on February 8, 2024

When Kansas City and San Francisco take the field for Super Bowl LVIII, they will play a in a competition that has been revolutionized by data analytics. With play sheets informed by advanced statistical analysis, today’s coaches pass more, kick less, and go for more two-point or fourth-down conversions than

Read an Excerpt from “A Fan’s Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat” by University of Michigan Football Fanatic Paul Campos

By PublicityTeam on October 13, 2022

In A Fan’s Life: The Agony of Victory and Thrill of Defeat, University of Colorado law professor—and lifelong University of Michigan football fanatic—Paul Campos delves into the strangest and ugliest depths of the rabid sports fan’s mindset. His ruminations on this particularly fervent form of obsession take him from the

Soldier Field Seeks World Cup 2018 or 2022

By John J. Fanning on April 24, 2009

Soldier Field, which was the site of the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament wants a rematch at the stadium in either 2018 or 2022. The US hosted event in 1994 had the highest attendance of any World Cup which bodes well for efforts by stadium managers to entice the venue back to the Chicago stadium. More…