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publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Participant
A Century of Participation in Four Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226666761,
ISBN: HB: 9780226666624,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposi...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Phantom Image
Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226648293,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...
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£45,00
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Making Global MBAs
The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780999157046,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
January 2020
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In "Making Global MBAs", Andrew Orta provocatively examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ways MBA programs p...
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£22,50
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Real Economy
Essays in Ethnographic Theory
This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies a...
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£19,00
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Signs of the Americas
A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
ISBN: PB: 9780226659022,
ISBN: HB: 9780226658971,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in "Signs of the Americas". Rather than be...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Modern Sovereign
The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)
ISBN: HB: 9780857426888,
Seagull Books,
January 2020
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The "Modern Sovereign", a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, res...
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£35,00
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Mythology in Our Language
Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous "Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough", published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact – continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology's theoretical terms,...
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£26,50
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Language in Culture
The Semiotics of Interaction
ISBN: PB: 9780986132544,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 80 halftones
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 80 halftones
This book offers a rich assortment of some of Michael Silverstein's most important lectures at the University of Chicago over the past forty years, all of which converge on theoretical issues involved in the semiotic, cognitive, and sociopolitical st...
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£15,00
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Second Careers
Two Tributaries in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300246872,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...
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£20,00
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Why We Believe
Evolution and the Human Way of Being
ISBN: HB: 9780300243994,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
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£20,00
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