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Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA
ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones
Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...
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£72,00
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Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...
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Feed-Forward On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
ISBN: PB: 9780226199726, ISBN: HB: 9780226199696, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In "Feed-Forward", Mark B. N. Hansen sho...
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£20,50
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£67,00
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Mayakovsky A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780226056975, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 161 halftones
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and – most important – poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of t...
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£26,50
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Happiness and the Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226075495, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 4 tables
Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each another. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law strives for is to improve people's quality of life. To do this, i...
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£32,00
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Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...
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Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...
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Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America
ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones
Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...
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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady The Origins of Chabad Hasidism
ISBN: HB: 9781611686777, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus playe...
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Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
ISBN: HB: 9780226186139, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In "The Other Renaissance", Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since:...
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