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Glorious Veils of Diane
ISBN: PB: 9780887486692, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Glorious Veils of Diane is about the weird way children turn themselves inside out on the world, and a reimagining of the author's own childhood. Diane is an ever-changing archetype, a self-conscious child who's seen too many horror movies and is dis...
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£13,00
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Silke Otto-Knapp In the Waiting Room
ISBN: PB: 9780941548816, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, February 2021
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 38 halftones
Los Angeles-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp has developed a painting practice characterized by its rigorous process and attentiveness to the medium's possibilities. Using layers of black watercolor pigment, she builds up delicate surfaces, producing su...
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£28,00
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Diet for a Large Planet Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
ISBN: HB: 9780226697109, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones
We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets...
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£40,00
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NAKED A New Poetry Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781734618105, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2020
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
In his new collection of poetry, Naked, Abiodun Oyewole unveils his thoughts on self-love, forgiveness, lost love, survival, and cultural identity. Known as a founding member of The Last Poets, a spoken word performance group that arose out of the bl...
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£14,00
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Privilege of Being Banal Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris
ISBN: PB: 9780226731261, ISBN: HB: 9780226731124, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage". In a creative inve...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Science on a Mission How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9780226732381, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
744 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 17 line drawings
What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who's footing th...
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£32,00
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Hallelujah Station and Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781938769597, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
M. Randal O'Wain's debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and loss. These gritty and poignant stories follow the tragic...
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£15,00
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Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times
ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...
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£54,00
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Truth Has a Different Shape
ISBN: PB: 9781933880761, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A family built, a family lost. "Truth Has a Different Shape" is a story of the power of compassion, of love and loss, revelations and relationship, and the evolution of self. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O'Driscoll was taught that strength...
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£17,00
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Out of Stock The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226662909, ISBN: HB: 9780226662879, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones
In "Out of Stock", Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century's bonded warehouses...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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