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Dig into the Earth Day series

By PublicityTeam on July 25, 2025

Whether your day is rushed or relaxed, full or free, you are not alone. A story told from midnight to midday to tomorrow, and across hemispheres, each short book of the Earth Day series offers twenty-four chapters, corresponding to twenty-four hour-long windows to witness the diversity of life. Each hour

5 Questions with Liz Kalaugher, the author of “The Elephant in the Room”

By PublicityTeam on May 16, 2025

When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits—monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; or waterfowl and avian flu. But it often works the other way around—humans have caused diseases in other animals countless times, through travel and transport, the changes we impose on our environment, and global

A Collection of Books on Gardening

By PublicityTeam on April 30, 2025

It’s that time of year. Snowdrops and crocuses are blooming. Tulips and daffodils are sending up their leaves. It seems like the land is waking up and it’s time to start thinking about your garden. You’ve been waiting all winter and the time is almost here. Not yet time to

An Earth Day 2025 Reading List

By PublicityTeam on April 22, 2025

University Presses like Chicago are committed to making available works that not only keep us informed but also help us to better understand the world and climate around us. Our commitment to environmental awareness and sustainability runs deep, and to celebrate Earth Day, we have put together a reading list

Five Questions with Jill Pruetz, author of “Apes on the Edge”

By PublicityTeam on February 20, 2025

Fongoli chimpanzees are unique for many reasons. Their female hunters are the only apes that regularly hunt with tools, seeking out tiny bush babies with wooden spears. Unlike most other chimps, these apes fear neither water nor fire, using shallow pools to cool off in the Senegalese heat. Up to

Six Questions with Felice C. Frankel, author of the Visual Elements series

By PublicityTeam on June 13, 2024

Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning photographer whose images have appeared everywhere from the New York Times to National Geographic, Newsweek, Science, and Nature. Uniquely, she is also a research scientist in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In her extraordinary, decades-long career, Frankel has combined these talents,

What to Read for Leap Year

By PublicityTeam on February 27, 2024

Every four years, something special happens at the end of February: because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not a perfect 365 days, but instead roughly 365 and one quarter, an extra day appears on our calendars to help the cosmological books balance. And speaking of cosmological books, if

Five Questions with Laura Mamo, Author of “Sexualizing Cancer”

By PublicityTeam on November 13, 2023

In honor of University Press Week, November 13 through 17, 2023, university presses around the globe are celebrating and sharing the incredible impact that the work of this global community of university presses has on every one of us. This year’s theme is #SpeakUP, which provides an opportunity for presses

Read an Excerpt from “Deep Water” by Riley Black

By PublicityTeam on November 7, 2023

What lies beneath the surface of the ocean has mystified humankind for millennia. Today, we have explored more of the surface of the Moon than we have the deep sea. What thrives in these mysterious depths, how did these life-forms evolve from ancient life, and how has this environment changed

Read an Excerpt from “Mountains of Fire” by Clive Oppenheimer

By PublicityTeam on September 29, 2023

In Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes, Clive Oppenheimer invites readers to stand with him in the shadow of an active volcano. Whether he is scaling majestic summits, listening to hissing lava at the crater’s edge, or hunting for the far-flung ashes from Earth’s greatest eruptions,

Six Questions with Anthony J. Martin, author of “Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth”

By PublicityTeam on August 29, 2023

Meet the menagerie of life-forms that dig, crunch, bore, and otherwise reshape our planet. Did you know that elephants dig ballroom-sized caves alongside volcanoes? Or that our planet once hosted a five-ton dinosaur-crunching alligator cousin? In fact, almost since its fascinating start, life was boring. More than a billion years

Five Questions with Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of “Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond”

By PublicityTeam on February 14, 2023

San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s

Five Questions with the Editors of the Oceans in Depth Series

By PublicityTeam on January 24, 2023

Humanity’s interaction with the ocean has spawned industries, exchanges, stories, and knowledge. The University of Chicago Press’s new book series, Oceans in Depth, puts the ocean at the center of our narratives about the past to explore different dimensions of our histories. The first book in the series was published

Read an Excerpt from “Rethinking Hypothyroidism” by Antonio C. Bianco, MD

By PublicityTeam on December 19, 2022

Hypothyroidism affects approximately five out of a hundred Americans, and hundreds of millions worldwide. It occurs when the thyroid gland malfunctions or after thyroid surgery, causing thyroid hormone levels in circulation to drop. Thus, treatment is aimed at bringing these hormone levels back to normal, usually with daily tablets of

Watch the #ByTheBook Talk for Jack Ashby’s “Platypus Matters”

By PublicityTeam on October 25, 2022

Scientifically informed and funny, Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals is a firsthand account of some of Australia’s most wonderfully unique animals—and how our perceptions impact their futures. When a platypus first appeared in British scientific society, some were certain it was taxidermic trickery—with a duck’s bill and