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Canine Confidential Why Dogs Do What They Do
ISBN: PB: 9780226755694, ISBN: HB: 9780226433035, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For all the love and attention we give dogs,  much of what they do remains mysterious. Just think about different behaviors you see at a dog park: We have a good understanding of what it means when dogs wag their tails – but what about when they snif...
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£15,00
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£19,50
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Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human
ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...
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£17,95
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£53,95
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives
ISBN: HB: 9780226674100, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 558 line drawings, 33 tables
This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since th...
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£120,00
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Build Me a Boat Words for Music 1968 – 2018
ISBN: PB: 9780887486586, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Build Me a Boat" gathers a selection of the words that poet Michael Dennis Browne has written for music over the past fifty years. Working with a number of different composers, Browne has ranged widely across forms; what we discover here are lyrics,...
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£16,00
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Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961 Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226740348, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 12 musical examples, 2 tables
This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern r...
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£44,00
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under the aegis of a winged mind
ISBN: PB: 9781938769580, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl "Bud" Powell. Powell was a leading figure in the development of jazz, but throughout his life, he also faced struggles with police...
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£14,00
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How the Tea Party Captured the GOP Insurgent Factions in American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226687520, ISBN: HB: 9780226687490, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 line drawings, 3 tables
The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influenc...
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£72,00
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Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...
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Hope and Scorn Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780226718149, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Intellectuals "have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn", writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: are intellectual public figures essential voi...
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