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Rivall Friendship, by Bridget Manningham
ISBN: PB: 9780866986335, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, June 2021
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The manuscript for Rivall Friendship was first acquired by the Newberry Library in 1937. At the time of the acquisition, the author of this seventeenth-century romance was anonymous. Scholar Jean R. Brink now suggests, based on dating of the manuscri...
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£96,00
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Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
ISBN: HB: 9780226658049, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of the best-known liberal lawyers in the United States. An eminent attorney and general counsel of the ACLU for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against literary and artistic censorship....
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Here Is a Game We Could Play A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724403, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in – a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. See...
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£16,00
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Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
ISBN: HB: 9781649590183, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
760 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 colour plates, 5 halftones, 9 figures
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Orm...
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£93,00
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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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£24,00
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Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...
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£20,00
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Topsy-Turvy
ISBN: PB: 9780226783604, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 1 halftone
In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of "covidity", as Bernstein calls it in one of the book's most poignantly...
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Violent Peace Media, Truth, and Power at the League of Nations
ISBN: PB: 9780226766423, ISBN: HB: 9780226766393, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world – from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements – by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritab...
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£28,00
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£76,00
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Integrations The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226786032, ISBN: HB: 9780226785981, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
The promise of a free, high quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American Dream. Yet, today many children of color do not have access to equal educational opportunities due primarily to white supremacy and class...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Machines of the Mind Personification in Medieval Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226776590, ISBN: HB: 9780226776453, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools...
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£84,00
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