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World Is Always Coming to an End Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
ISBN: PB: 9780226759616, ISBN: HB: 9780226624037, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map
An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day – and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people – the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it c...
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Lonely Crowd A Study of the Changing American Character
ISBN: PB: 9780300246735, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, "The Lonely Crowd" opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett's new...
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£14,99
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Origins of the Dual City Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226661582, ISBN: HB: 9780226661445, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city", a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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George Washington The Wonder of the Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...
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£13,99
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Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise
ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables
Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Sea Is My Country The Maritime World of the Makahs
ISBN: PB: 9780300234640, Yale University Press, April 2018
416 pp., 22.7x14.8 cm, 36 black&white illus.
For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah...
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£18,99
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Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era
ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...
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£22,50
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Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865
ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images
Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...
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Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...
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£12,99
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Revolution Against Empire Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
ISBN: HB: 9780300214246, Yale University Press, August 2017
396 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation "Revolution Against Empire" sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political a...
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