ledochowicz.com

Political Science

Culture Studies

Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

PB:

£16,99

QTY:

HB:

£45,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Culture Studies

True History of Merlin the Magician

Lawrence-Mathers Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780300253085, Yale University Press, April 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since the idea was first invented in the twelfth century in the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain". But although the Merlin of literature and Arthur...

PB:

£11,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Travel

Culture Studies

Thames A Cultural History

Sinclair Mick

ISBN: PB: 9781904955276, Signal Books, October 2019
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation's past and present, or are suggestive of its future, as England's River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepe...

PB:

£12,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

PB:

£27,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Travel

Culture Studies

Tokyo A Cultural and Literary History

Mansfield Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781904955511, Signal Books, April 2016
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated...

PB:

£12,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Culture Studies

Anthropology

Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...

PB:

£20,50

QTY:

HB:

£66,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Culture Studies

Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Bennett Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226323794, ISBN: HB: 9780226042930, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Our traditional image of Chicago – as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends – is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to no...

PB:

£13,00

QTY:

HB:

£17,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Culture Studies

Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

Weisbard Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

HB:

£67,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Culture Studies

Through a Screen Darkly Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad

Bayles Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300123388, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods – but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the...

HB:

£27,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Travel

Culture Studies

Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel

Stiegler Bernd

ISBN: HB: 9780226774671, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
264 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 83 halftones

Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explor...

HB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list