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Deke Dangle Dive Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781933880853, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, May 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world? What is a husband to do when confronted with his dome...
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Martial The World of the Epigram
ISBN: PB: 9780226252551, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
268 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's cu...
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Fragile Finitude A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology
ISBN: HB: 9780226764153, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is in the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed, and it is there that religious scholar Michael Fishban...
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Gathering Medicines Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South
ISBN: PB: 9780226763651, ISBN: HB: 9780226763514, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 3 tables
In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally...
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£84,00
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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/The Entire Surface of the Land is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234222, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 124 colour plates
In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free...
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£24,00
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No Chronology
ISBN: PB: 9780226768977, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In No Chronology, Karen Fish's third collection of poems, she investigates those moments when the boundary of everyday life merges with history, imagination, and art. Fish was trained as a visual artist, and this way of seeing is intrinsic to her app...
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No One Leaves the World Unhurt
ISBN: PB: 9781938769757, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
John Foy's newest collection is a tour de force of formal poetry, offering a blend of wit, cleverness, and deftness. Working in the lineage of poets like Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Frank O'Hara, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop, Foy probes everyda...
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£14,00
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Liberalism of Care Community, Philosophy, and Ethics
ISBN: PB: 9780226745350, ISBN: HB: 9780226745213, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold. The Liberalism of Care argues that contemporary liberalism is suffering from a crisis of care, manifest...
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£84,00
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Jewish Decadence Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226581088, ISBN: HB: 9780226580920, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and l...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Myths and Traditions of Central European University Culture
ISBN: PB: 9788024643809, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! By examining the myriad myths surrounding Central European universities, Czech historians Lukas Fasora and Jiri Hanus take a diachronic approach to investigating the issues facing higher l...
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