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Queer Encounters with Communist Power Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989
ISBN: PB: 9788024642666, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
250 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness – and later on, as adu...
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£15,00
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Queer Legacies Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives
ISBN: PB: 9780226727530, ISBN: HB: 9780226664972, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The variety of gay life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse, to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerbert/Hart Library & Archives on the city's North Side has strived to do just that, amassing and cataloging a wealth of recor...
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Quiet Orient Riot
ISBN: PB: 9781632430830, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Tracing the conception of a child through to her birth, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherho...
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Queer Budapest, 1873-1961
ISBN: PB: 9780226705798, ISBN: HB: 9780226705651, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube", it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class...
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Quantum Legacies Dispatches from an Uncertain World
ISBN: HB: 9780226698052, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 47 halftones
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that s...
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£21,00
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Quality of the Archaeological Record
ISBN: PB: 9780226630960, ISBN: HB: 9780226630823, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 line drawings, 8 tables
Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microevolution and an incredibly patchy fossil record. But in the 1970s, the field took a radical turn, as pal...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Qanemcit Amllertut / Many Stories to Tell Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602233362, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2017
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates
This bilingual collection shares new translations of old stories recorded over the last four decades though interviews with Yup'ik elders from throughout southwest Alaska. Some are true qulirat (traditional tales), while others are recent. Some are w...
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Quantum Anthropology Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9788024634708, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
191 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 halftones, 7 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Quantum Anthropology" offers a fresh look at humans, cultures, and societies that builds on advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. Rad...
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Quest for Stable Money Central Banking in Austria, 1816-2016
ISBN: HB: 9783593505350, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 40 colour plates
Caught up in the costly Napoleonic wars, Austria went into sovereign default in 1811. Five years later, the public authorities founded a national bank to be financed and run by private shareholders, the idea being that an independent bank would help...
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Quantifying Life A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226371764, ISBN: HB: 9780226371627, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones
Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, co...
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