The Great Chicago Book Sale

Although their website has nothing about it so far, the University of Chicago Press is having a massive mail order catalog sale with tons of great books for very, very cheap. As usual, many have already been remaindered or have been in print long enough that this is not news for some books. However, huge swaths of them are unusually cheap — especially some of the cloth copies for art books, which retail for US$65 but are now going for US$14. There are some good finds in anthropology and related details.

Since the sale seems to be limited to people who have the actual mail-order catalog if you are interested you should call or request one, since the sale ends on 31 January so you have some time.

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Alex Golub is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His book Leviathans at The Gold Mine has been published by Duke University Press. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org

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  3. How do you get a mail order catalog from UCPress? I looked on their website and it didn’t even mention that catalog. I asked my school’s library and they said they don’t keep catalogs, they usually throw them out really quick and they’re coming to rely more on publishers’ websites. Then I asked the bookstore and they said they don’t deal in direct to consumer stuff like this. Au secours!

    And how did you find out about this sale, anyway?

  4. You know to be perfectly honest I have no idea how I got signed up for this, nor do I have any idea how you could be, come to think of it. I think if you just send a letter to the press’s address they might send you a copy…?

  7. *g This reminds me of my proper lazyness to use a dictionary. I mean, I do use my dict. in case I happen to know that I don t know the proper translation of a term from german to english, but more often I have thought to know the right word, but actually did not. So this lead to some sort of funny statements I have produced since articulating in english in this public–when I wanted to say something on increasement for example and according to my very talent to make a fool out of myself, I used a term that refered to reduction instead.

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