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Art in a Disrupted World Poland 1939–1949
ISBN: PB: 9788364177750, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! With Art in a Disrupted World, art historian Agata Pietrasik presents a study of artistic practices that emerged in Poland during and after World War II. Pietrasik highlights examples of artworks by a number of Polish-born a...
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£24,00
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Russ-Ukraine-Russia Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity
ISBN: PB: 9788024635804, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he ironically dedica...
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£18,00
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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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Galileo Spirals Out of Control
ISBN: HB: 9783035803723, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Who is throwing melons and pumpkins from the highest tower in Pisa? It's the mad scientist Galileo Galilei, confounding the old ideas of the Greeks around Aristotle. This strange old fellow does science everywhere, even in the taverns! When Galileo m...
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£10,99
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Life in a Field Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430908, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 1 halftone
This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs b...
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£16,00
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Philosophy by Other Means The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226770802, ISBN: HB: 9780226770772, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unles...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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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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Studies in Language and Information
ISBN: PB: 9781684000500, ISBN: HB: 9781684000494, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
489 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book gathers together in one volume many influential papers by renowned philosopher of language John Perry.
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£30,00
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£32,00
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Rethinking America's Highways A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
ISBN: PB: 9780226759302, ISBN: HB: 9780226557571, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 14 tables
Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and det...
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£20,00
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Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the City of Angels
ISBN: PB: 9780226747286, ISBN: HB: 9780226747149, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographic...
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£16,00
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£76,00
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