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Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience
ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates
Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...
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£30,00
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Managing Performing Living Effective Management for a New World – Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9783593502632, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates
In this completely revised and enlarged edition of his classic book, management expert Fredmund Malik offers managers sound professional advice for improving skills in organization, decision-making, supervising, budgeting, and numerous other manageme...
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£31,50
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Making Sense of the Americas How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9783593504803, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical repr...
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£44,50
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Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day
ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...
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£44,50
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Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)
ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings
Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...
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£44,50
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Literary Spinoffs Rewriting the Classics – Re-Imagining the Community
ISBN: PB: 9783593503110, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
500 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 colour plates
In "Literary Spinoffs", Birgit Spengler explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century American literary classics. By tapping into powerful, ingrained literary and...
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£56,50
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Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error
ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...
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£56,50
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Producing Cultural Diversity Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects
ISBN: PB: 9783593503165, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
245 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate
How did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy making? "Producing Cultural Diversity" investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the...
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£42,00
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Global Common Good Intercultural Perspectives on a Just and Ecological Transformation
ISBN: PB: 9783593503189, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Global challenges such as poverty, climate change, and economic crises are all problems that the global community must face collectively. But in order to do so successfully, we need to engage in a continued intercultural dialogue on alternative appro...
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£49,50
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Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures
ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm
Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...
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£45,00
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