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Critical Terms for Animal Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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What Editors Do The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
ISBN: PB: 9780226299976, ISBN: HB: 9780226299839, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly unders...
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£19,00
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£56,00
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Art of Creative Research A Field Guide for Writers
ISBN: PB: 9780226179803, ISBN: HB: 9780226179773, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm
All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world – when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a...
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£13,50
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£41,50
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Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
ISBN: HB: 9780226188850, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
552 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 115 line drawings
Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of "The Chicago Manual of Style's" popular "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity....
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£34,00
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From Notes to Narrative Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read
ISBN: PB: 9780226257556, ISBN: HB: 9780226257419, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones
Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic...
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£13,00
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£33,50
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Getting It Published A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (Third Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780226281377, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
For more than a decade, writers have turned to William Germano for his insider's take on navigating the world of scholarly publishing. A professor, author, and thirty-year veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers...
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£48,00
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From Dissertation to Book, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226062044, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake".You know something!" I would say if it could hear me".Now tell it to us in language we can understand!" Since its publication in 2005...
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£13,50
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Writing Science in Plain English
ISBN: PB: 9780226026374, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
136 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in "Writing Science in Plain English",writers from all scientific disciplines can learn to produce clear, concise prose by mastering just a few simple p...
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£11,50
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Encyclopedia of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226310152, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
1152 pp., 27.1x21.6 cm, 56 p. colour insert, 475 halftones, 442 maps, 10 tables
One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle...
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£49,00
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