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History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3 Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
ISBN: HB: 9780226907284, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
500 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 24 colour plates, 267 halftones, 196 line drawings, 5 tables
Although they are often rendered in forms unfamiliar to Western eyes, maps have existed in most cultures. In this latest book of the acclaimed "History of Cartography", contributors from a broad variety of disciplines collaborate to describe and addr...
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£213,00
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African Royal Court Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226115757, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
189 pp., 28.7x22.4 cm, 52 colour plates, 102 halftones, 2 maps
In this visually stunning work, anthropologist Michele Coquet presents the power and the brilliance of African court arts. Grounding her analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, Coquet examines the diverse roles p...
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£41,50
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Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s
ISBN: PB: 9780226262178, University of Chicago Press, November 1998
676 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 201 halftones
"Manet's Modernism" is the culminating work in a trilogy of books by Michael Fried exploring the roots and genesis of pictorial modernism. Fried provides an entirely new understanding not only of the art of Manet and his generation but also of the wa...
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£56,50
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Cartographies of Danger Mapping Hazards in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226534190, ISBN: HB: 9780226534183, University of Chicago Press, October 1998
378 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps
No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley", near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made ha...
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£28,50
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£37,50
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Critical Terms for Religious Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226791579, ISBN: HB: 9780226791562, University of Chicago Press, August 1998
430 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 table
A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop musi...
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£23,50
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£80,00
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Kant's Conception of Moral Character The "Critical" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226551340, University of Chicago Press, July 1998
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Currently fashionable among critics of enlightenment thought is the charge that Kant's ethics fails to provide an adequate account of character and its formation in moral and political life. G. Felicitas Munzel challenges this reading of Kant's thoug...
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£33,00
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Tears and Saints
ISBN: PB: 9780226106748, ISBN: HB: 9780226106724, University of Chicago Press, July 1998
154 pp., 21.3x12.9 cm
By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a mode...
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£17,50
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£26,00
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Struggle for Utopia Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946
ISBN: PB: 9780226505169, University of Chicago Press, June 1998
276 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 107 halftones
Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy whose careers cov...
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£25,50
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God Owes Us Nothing A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
ISBN: PB: 9780226450537, ISBN: HB: 9780226450513, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
248 pp., 23x15 cm
"God Owes Us Nothing" reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own...
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£17,50
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£36,00
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Dewey's New Logic A Reply to Russell
ISBN: PB: 9780226080703, ISBN: HB: 9780226080697, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
295 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings
Although John Dewey is celebrated for his work in the philosophy of education and acknowledged as a leading proponent of American pragmatism, he might also have enjoyed more of a reputation for his philosophy of logic had Bertrand Russell not attacke...
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£55,00
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