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Jealous Potter
ISBN: PB: 9780226474823, ISBN: HB: 9780226474809, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
260 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones
As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification", and plays by Sophocles and...
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£21,00
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£33,00
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Story of Lynx
ISBN: PB: 9780226474724, ISBN: HB: 9780226474717, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
294 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 3 maps, 20 tables
"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the...
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£21,00
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£40,00
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Art of Growing Older Writers on Living and Aging
ISBN: PB: 9780226065496, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
386 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones
Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time.
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£23,50
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Nihilism Before Nietzsche
ISBN: PB: 9780226293486, University of Chicago Press, October 1996
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In the twentieth century, we often think of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. But, in this pathbreaking work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding h...
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£25,50
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On the Heights of Despair
ISBN: PB: 9780226106717, University of Chicago Press, October 1996
150 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Born of a terrible insomnia – "a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell" – this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole ci...
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£19,00
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Catalogue of Watermarks in Italian Printed Maps, ca. 1540-1600
ISBN: HB: 9780226907277, University of Chicago Press, September 1996
206 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 335 halftones, 335 line drawings
This catalogue presents over three-hundred photographic images of watermarks found in Italian printed maps of the sixteenth century. Such watermarks are essential tools in identifying paper moulds and are part of the evidence that bibliographers use...
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£85,00
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Collective Vision Creating a Contemporary Art Museum
ISBN: PB: 9780933856431, University of Chicago Press, September 1996
156 pp., 27.8x25.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 45 halftones
It is said that art reveals the heart of humankind, architecture the soul of civilization. This summer, heart and soul will merge in the new building for Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Designed by famous Berlin architect Josef Paul Kleihues (h...
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£19,00
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Mahler A Musical Physiognomy
ISBN: PB: 9780226007694, University of Chicago Press, August 1996
188 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's wor...
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£21,00
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Roger Fry Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226266428, ISBN: HB: 9780226266435, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
447 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 30 halftones
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the art critic Roger Fry introduced English-speaking audiences to modern French art and formalist aesthetic theory".A Roger Fry Reader", edited by Christopher Reed, brings together for the first time a c...
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£31,00
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£76,00
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Phonetic Symbol Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780226685366, ISBN: HB: 9780226685359, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
358 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 375 line drawings
"Phonetic Symbol Guide" is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages....
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£24,00
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£123,00
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