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The University of Chicago Press is committed to helping readers engage with their books in a range of formats. We regularly license audiobook editions of our titles that are available from a wide range of retailers, and we also produce audiobooks ourselves, which can be purchased from our site. A list of books that have audio editions is below, along with links at which you can purchase them.

 

Networks of Trust

The Social Costs of College and What We Can Do about Them

Anthony Simon Laden

Democracy in Power

A History of Electrification in the United States

Sandeep Vaheesan

Promise to Pay

The Politics and Power of Money in Early America

Katie A. Moore

Dual Justice

America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime

Anthony Grasso

Failure by Design

The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning

Georg Rilinger

Spiritual Criminals

How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial

Michelle M. Nickerson

Degrees of Risk

Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education

Blake R. Silver

Intimate Subjects

Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age

Simeon Koole

Worthy of Freedom

Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation

Jonathan Connolly

The Well-Connected Animal

Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Shock Values

Prices and Inflation in American Democracy

Carola Binder

The Pandemic Workplace

How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office

Ilana Gershon

Polished

College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility

Melissa Osborne

The Constitutional Bind

How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them

Aziz Rana

A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other

The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People

Kevin J. McMahon

Work, Retire, Repeat

The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy

Teresa Ghilarducci

The Policing Machine

Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input

Tony Cheng

The Black Ceiling

How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace

Kevin Woodson

Flowers, Guns, and Money

Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Wasted Education

How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

John D. Skrentny

The Accidental Equalizer

How Luck Determines Pay after College

Jessi Streib

Sins of the Shovel

Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology

Rachel Morgan

The Price of Misfortune

Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America

Daniel Platt

The Lies of the Land

Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t

Steven Conn

Developing to Scale

Technology and the Making of Global Health

Heidi Morefield

Born This Way

Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement

Joanna Wuest

The Two-Parent Privilege

How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

Melissa S. Kearney

Race, Rights, and Rifles

The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

Alexandra Filindra

Who’s a Good Dog?

And How to Be a Better Human

Jessica Pierce

Liberalism’s Last Man

Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism

Vikash Yadav

Popularizing the Past

Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America

Nick Witham

The Feeling of Forgetting

Christianity, Race, and Violence in America

John Corrigan

The Floating University

Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge

Tamson Pietsch

The Great American Transit Disaster

A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

The Next Supercontinent

Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea

Ross Mitchell

The Apple II Age

How the Computer Became Personal

Laine Nooney

Banking on Slavery

Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

Sharon Ann Murphy

The Crucible of Desegregation

The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality

R. Shep Melnick

Uncertain Climes

Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America

Joseph Giacomelli

The Science of Reading

Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America

Adrian Johns

Easy Money

American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency

Dror Goldberg

The Return of Resentment

The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion

Robert A. Schneider

Cancel Wars

How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy

Sigal R. Ben-Porath

Oil Beach

How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Dr. Nurse

Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing

Dominique A. Tobbell

When the News Broke

Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

Heather Hendershot

Fit Nation

The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Rethinking Hypothyroidism

Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do

Antonio C. Bianco, MD

City of Dignity

Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles

Sean T. Dempsey

Touchy Subject

The History and Philosophy of Sex Education

Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen

Astrotopia

The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Fascism Comes to America

A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture

Bruce Kuklick

The Capital Order

How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara E. Mattei

City of Newsmen

Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington

Kathryn J. McGarr

The Portraitist

Frans Hals and His World

Steven Nadler

Collaborative Crisis Management

Prepare, Execute, Recover, Repeat

Thomas A. Cole and Paul Verbinnen

Plowshares into Swords

Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations

David Ekbladh

Whose America?

Culture Wars in the Public Schools

Jonathan Zimmerman

Constructing Basic Liberties

A Defense of Substantive Due Process

James E. Fleming

A Great and Rising Nation

Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic

Michael A. Verney

America’s Philosopher

John Locke in American Intellectual Life

Claire Rydell Arcenas

Dawn at Mineral King Valley

The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law

Daniel P. Selmi

Other People’s Colleges

The Origins of American Higher Education Reform

Ethan W. Ris

How the Clinic Made Gender

The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Sandra Eder

The Book of Minds

How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Philip Ball

The Channels of Student Activism

How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today

Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder

The Nation That Never Was

Reconstructing America’s Story

Kermit Roosevelt III

National Parks Forever

Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence

Jonathan B. Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis

Victories Never Last

Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

Robert Zaretsky

Power in the Wild

The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Carbon Technocracy

Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

Victor Seow

Living in the Future

Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Victoria W. Wolcott

The Quest for Sexual Health

How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life

Steven Epstein

To Live Peaceably Together

The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing

Tracy E. K'Meyer

A Conspiratorial Life

Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

Edward H. Miller

The Digital Factory

The Human Labor of Automation

Moritz Altenried

The New Female Antihero

The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television

Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

Elijah Anderson

Pushing Cool

Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Keith Wailoo

Artful Truths

The Philosophy of Memoir

Helena de Bres

The Money Illusion

Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy

Scott Sumner

Dogopolis

How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris

Chris Pearson

Hearing Happiness

Deafness Cures in History

Jaipreet Virdi

Big Med

Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns

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Spare the Rod

Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools

Campbell F. Scribner and Bryan R. Warnick

Gossip Men

J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

Christopher M. Elias

The Modern Myths

Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Philip Ball

Worst Cases

Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination

Lee Clarke

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Topsy-Turvy

Charles Bernstein

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Restricted Data

The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Alex Wellerstein

An Open Secret

The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton

Nicholas L. Syrett

Sheer Misery

Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Mary Louise Roberts

Animals’ Best Friends

Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

Barbara J. King

Hooked

Art and Attachment

Rita Felski

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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden

Urban Lowlands

A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning

Steven T. Moga

After Redlining

The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Rebecca K. Marchiel

Plague Years

A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Ross A. Slotten, MD

The Cost of Inclusion

How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses

Blake R. Silver

Politics for Everybody

Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

Ned O'Gorman

Crusade for Justice

The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition

Ida B. Wells

Chemically Imbalanced

Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

Joseph E. Davis

The Toddler in Chief

What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

Daniel W. Drezner

The World of Juliette Kinzie

Chicago before the Fire

Ann Durkin Keating

Ahab’s Rolling Sea

A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

Richard J. King

Waters of the World

The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole

Sarah Dry

Make Yourselves Gods

Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism

Peter Coviello

Composing Capital

Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Marianna Ritchey

I’d Fight the World

A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

Peter La Chapelle

Move On Up

Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

Aaron Cohen

The Adjunct Underclass

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Herb Childress

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead

The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Laurie Kaye Abraham

The City

Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess

Renewal

Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II

Mark Wild

Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition

A Guide to Narrative Craft

Janet Burroway, with Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and Ned Stuckey-French

Homeschooling

The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice

James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters

A Perfect Mess

The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

David F. Labaree

A Decent Life

Morality for the Rest of Us

Todd May

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side

Eve L. Ewing

Suicidal

Why We Kill Ourselves

Jesse Bering

Confident Pluralism

Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference

John D. Inazu

Last Resort

The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A. Posner

Uncivil Agreement

How Politics Became Our Identity

Lilliana Mason

What Editors Do

The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

Edited by Peter Ginna

Perfect Wave

More Essays on Art and Democracy

Dave Hickey

The Myth of Disenchantment

Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Our Latest Longest War

Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

Edited by Aaron B. O'Connell

A Fragile Life

Accepting Our Vulnerability

Todd May

Human Targets

Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Victor M. Rios

Moral Politics

How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition

George Lakoff

Paying the Price

College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Sara Goldrick-Rab

Vaccine Nation

America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization

Elena Conis

The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition

Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

Carol Fisher Saller

The Politics of Resentment

Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Katherine J. Cramer

The Cycling City

Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

Evan Friss

How Dogs Work

Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein

A Significant Life

Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

Todd May

Heat Wave

A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Eric Klinenberg

House of Debt

How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Infested

How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Brooke Borel

The Accidental Species

Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Henry Gee

What Soldiers Do

Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Mary Louise Roberts

Trade-Offs

An Introduction to Economic Reasoning

Harold Winter

Paging God

Religion in the Halls of Medicine

Wendy Cadge

American Indians

Fourth Edition

William T. Hagan and Daniel M. Cobb

Vegetables

A Biography

Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Genentech

The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes

Pop Song Piracy

Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Barry Kernfeld

Challenging Operations

Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Katherine C. Kellogg

Black on the Block

The Politics of Race and Class in the City

Mary Pattillo

Gardens

An Essay on the Human Condition

Robert Pogue Harrison

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

Jan R. Van Meter

Chicago

A Biography

Dominic A. Pacyga

Wild Justice

The Moral Lives of Animals

Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

Autophobia

Love and Hate in the Automotive Age

Brian Ladd

Children’s Literature

A Reader’s History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Seth Lerer

Spiral Jetta

A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West

Erin Hogan

Custerology

The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer

Michael A. Elliott

The Legal Analyst

A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

Ward Farnsworth

The Bourgeois Virtues

Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

The Lavender Scare

The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government

David K. Johnson

A Child’s Work

The Importance of Fantasy Play

Vivian Gussin Paley

Art of War

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

Second Edition

Niccolò Machiavelli

Black Nationalism

The Search for an Identity

E. U. Essien-Udom

The Fatal Conceit

The Errors of Socialism

F. A. Hayek

The Cholera Years

The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

Charles E. Rosenberg

The Pursuit of Power

Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

William H. McNeill

Islam and Modernity

Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition

Fazlur Rahman

Islam

Fazlur Rahman

The Sumerians

Their History, Culture, and Character

Samuel Noah Kramer

The Jack-Roller

A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story

Clifford R. Shaw

The American Adam

Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century

R. W. B. Lewis

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