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On the Spirit of Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226794303, ISBN: HB: 9780226588988, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
334 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such mea...
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Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
ISBN: HB: 9781649590206, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
492 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 19 halftones
This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew on texts circulating...
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Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership
ISBN: PB: 9780226775814, ISBN: HB: 9780226775500, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 74 tables
Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them. As a result, the White House is not able to alter...
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£84,00
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Gossip Men J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
ISBN: HB: 9780226624822, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in the midcentury United States, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illega...
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£28,00
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2020 Volume 35
ISBN: PB: 9780226802688, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2021
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2020 presents research by leading scholars on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. George-Marios Angeletos, Zhen Huo, and Karthik Sastry ask how to model expectations without rational expectations. They find that...
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£72,00
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Knives We Need
ISBN: PB: 9780887486678, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Knives We Need is a settler-colonial coming-of-age tale, set in landscapes in Palestine and the United States. In short, iterative lyric poems, Nava Etshalom combs through disastrous settler genealogies. Wittily, meticulously, the collection unpi...
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Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...
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Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
ISBN: HB: 9780226481623, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Da...
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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...
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Cabin 135 A Memoir of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234208, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which wer...
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