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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors Religion and the History of the CIA
ISBN: HB: 9780226767406, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), a...
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£36,00
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Expanding the Palace of Torah Orthodoxy and Feminism
ISBN: PB: 9781684580514, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider – herself an Orthodox Jew – Tama...
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£32,00
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Extreme Killers Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers
ISBN: PB: 9781454939405, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2021
320 pp., 20.8x14 cm, illus.
For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most "elite" serial killers – master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and intern...
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£14,99
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300236118, Yale University Press, October 2020
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, sh...
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£25,00
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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Eleanor
ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...
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£13,00
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Evidence of Being The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence
ISBN: PB: 9780226589824, ISBN: HB: 9780226589794, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
"Evidence of Being" opens on a grim scene: Washington D. C. 's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest...
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£20,50
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£62,00
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Economics of Poverty Traps
ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables
What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...
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£98,00
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Economics for Humans Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226463803, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing
At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassi...
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£15,00
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Emotions of Protest
ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables
In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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