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Sephardic Trajectories Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
ISBN: PB: 9786057685360, University of Chicago Press, Koc University Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Sephardic Trajectories brings together scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies to discuss how family heirlooms, papers, and memorabilia help us conceptualize the complex process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. To con...
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£16,00
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Sheer Misery Soldiers in Battle in WWII
ISBN: HB: 9780226753140, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem when we walked", Stewart wrote, "the shorts and I didn't get along. They would c...
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£19,00
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Sound and Affect Voice, Music, World
ISBN: PB: 9780226758015, ISBN: HB: 9780226751832, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with sound – whether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic,...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Spare the Rod Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226785707, ISBN: HB: 9780226785677, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warner investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of...
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£20,00
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£76,00
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Idiocracy Thinking and Acting in the Age of the Idiot
ISBN: PB: 9783035803679, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Beyond the universal story of human incapability, there is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. This new idiot appears merely as the figure of the s...
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In Honor of Fadime Murder and Shame
ISBN: PB: 9780226896878, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime's relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonore...
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Insurance Era Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
ISBN: HB: 9780226784380, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an oft-unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry's political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime,...
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£32,00
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Integrations The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226786032, ISBN: HB: 9780226785981, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
The promise of a free, high quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American Dream. Yet, today many children of color do not have access to equal educational opportunities due primarily to white supremacy and class...
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£22,00
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Tempest
ISBN: PB: 9780866986625, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
106 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Considered by most scholars to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, The Tempest is a stormy tale of betrayal and forgiveness. After being banished by his brother Antonio, Prospero harnesses the magic of an otherworldly island full of monsters and...
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£8,00
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100 Words Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430915, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Written as a conversation, 100 Words is an exchange of ideas, dialogues, burdens, and ideals between someone White and someone Brown. Two poets, Damon Potter and Truong Tran, write to each other about one hundred powerful words – like "proximity", "s...
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£15,00
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