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Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...
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£28,00
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£60,00
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Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
ISBN: PB: 9781684580279, ISBN: HB: 9781684580262, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemp...
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£28,00
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£72,00
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Other Boston Busing Story What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line
ISBN: PB: 9781684580293, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing wi...
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£28,00
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Vulture The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
ISBN: PB: 9781684580330, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates
Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known a...
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£20,00
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Bark A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast
ISBN: PB: 9781684580316, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 283 colour plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps
What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detai...
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£24,00
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Lives Brought to Life 20 Years of Literature of Emotion and Everyday Life
ISBN: PB: 9780967885636, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
Founded twenty years ago by poet, memoirist, and clinical psychologist Joan Cusack Handler, CavanKerry Press has published fine literary work by established and emerging writers focused on the pursuit of understanding what it means to be human throug...
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£23,00
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Maine's Lithographic Landscapes Town and City Views, 1830-1870
ISBN: HB: 9781684580255, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2020
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
During the nineteenth century, Americans celebrated their towns and cities through printed landscapes. In Maine, lithographs were commissioned from such leading artists as Fitz Henry Lane and talented, lesser known local artists, such as Esteria Butl...
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£40,00
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Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...
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£21,00
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£72,00
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Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.
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£36,00
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American Jewish Thought Since 1934 Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief
ISBN: PB: 9781684580149, ISBN: HB: 9781684580132, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and i...
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£21,00
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£72,00
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