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Cycling City Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
ISBN: PB: 9780226758800, ISBN: HB: 9780226210919, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles – where they belong, how they should be ridde...
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£26,00
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£32,00
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Catastrophizing Materialism and the Making of Disaster
ISBN: HB: 9780226612218, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 colour plates, 7 halftones
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing.  Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imaginat...
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£19,00
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Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones
This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...
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£36,00
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Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300228731, Yale University Press, March 2018
192 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on...
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£10,99
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Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory
ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...
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£34,00
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Cybernetics The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions
ISBN: PB: 9783037345986, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 halftones
Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cy...
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£52,50
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Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class
ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...
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£12,99
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Corn Wolf
ISBN: PB: 9780226310855, ISBN: HB: 9780226310718, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones, 16 line drawings
Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, "The Corn Wolf" pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has charact...
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£17,00
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£50,50
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Cities, Museums and Soft Power
ISBN: PB: 9781941963036, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
272 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm
"Soft power" emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of "hard power" are tangible – force and finance – soft power resour...
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£21,00
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Cotswolds A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930223, Signal Books, March 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Cotswolds have featured on a thousand country calendars, but what is the real story behind the picture-perfect rural scene? Jane Bingham reveals a history of privilege and poverty, idyll and conflict, through the eyes of tr...
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£12,00
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