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Yasuhiro Ishimoto Someday, Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780985096083, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, November 2018
152 pp., 22.9x26.7 cm, 30 colour plates, 90 halftones
This book examines the work of US-born photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012) through its connections to Chicago, where he lived for over a decade and returned to repeatedly throughout his life. Long celebrated in Japan as one of the most influen...
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£26,50
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Designs of Destruction The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226286556, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 123 halftones
The twentieth century was the most destructive in human history, but from its vast landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect archit...
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£34,00
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Human Condition Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226586601, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations – from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking origin...
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£17,00
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Trials of Mrs. K. Seeking Justice in a World with Witches
ISBN: PB: 9780226322360, ISBN: HB: 9780226322223, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In March 2009, a small community in Malawi accused a local hospital coordinator of teaching witchcraft to children. Amid swirling rumors, "Mrs. K." tried to defend her reputation, but the community nevertheless grew increasingly hostile. The legal, s...
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£56,50
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Reclaiming Fair Use How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226374192, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied...
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£16,00
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Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today
ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane
ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones
On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...
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£22,50
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Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs
ISBN: HB: 9780226530857, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 line drawings, 113 tables
Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...
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£97,50
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Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience
ISBN: PB: 9780226513539, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has been one...
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In the Quiet Season and Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781602233522, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"In the Quiet Season & Other Stories" explores the human landscape of Alaska. While the stories take place in modern-day towns, each is laced with a timelessness that comes from their roots in ageless issues: broken trust and heartbreak, hope and reb...
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£13,00
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