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Daemons are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
ISBN: PB: 9780226714905,
ISBN: HB: 9780226692401,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Deadline
Populism and the Press in Venezuela
ISBN: PB: 9780226633732,
ISBN: HB: 9780226633565,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation....
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Dark Inheritance
Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
ISBN: HB: 9780300225556,
Yale University Press,
August 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status....
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£45,00
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Dark Matter of the Mind
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
ISBN: PB: 9780226526782,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables
<p>Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these thin...
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£24,00
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Dream Trippers
Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality
ISBN: PB: 9780226484846,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 table
Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western "alternative" spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China.
"Dream Tri...
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£20,50
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Day at Home in Early Modern England
Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700
ISBN: HB: 9780300195019,
Yale University Press,
October 2017
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.
This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging...
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£40,00
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Doing Style
Youth and Mass Mediation in South India
ISBN: PB: 9780226327853,
ISBN: HB: 9780226327716,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 1 table
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 1 table
In "Doing Style", Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call "style" anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Ta...
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£22,50
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£63,00
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Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society
Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire – here in a new translation as the "Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society" – has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocu...
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£30,00
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Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
ISBN: PB: 9780226425245,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 halftones
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 halftones
On publication in 2012, "Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece" quickly met wide acclaim as a gripping work that, according to the Times Literary Supplement, "offers a wholly new way of thinking about dreams in their social contexts"...
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£17,00
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Design by the Book
Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu
ISBN: PB: 9781941792100,
University of Chicago Press,
Bard Graduate Center,
January 2017
128 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 80 halftones
128 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 80 halftones
Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most importa...
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£22,50
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