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Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm
This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...
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£39,00
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Medea
ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...
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Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady The Origins of Chabad Hasidism
ISBN: HB: 9781611686777, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement he founded in the region now known as Belarus playe...
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£36,00
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Darwin's Orchids Then and Now
ISBN: HB: 9780226044910, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 33 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...
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£44,00
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Hercules in the Cradle War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
ISBN: HB: 9780226181578, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings, 18 tables
Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. T...
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£34,00
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Children of the Land Adversity and Success in Rural America
ISBN: PB: 9780226212531, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
394 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 37 line drawings, 56 tables
A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age...
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£28,00
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Iphigenia among the Taurians
ISBN: PB: 9780226203621, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
72 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson.  "The New York Times Book Review" calls her work "personal, necessary, and impor...
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Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break III
ISBN: PB: 9780936316376, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 2014
72 pp., 30x20.8 cm, 25 colour plates, 10 halftones
"Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break III" is the third volume in a series examining the work of acclaimed video artist and photographer Sharon Lockhart. Known for collaborating with remote or marginal communities such as blue collar workers of the twenty-fi...
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Pulled Over How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
ISBN: PB: 9780226113999, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 13 tables
In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the m...
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In the Aftermath of Trauma Contemporary Video Installations
ISBN: PB: 9780936316383, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2014
112 pp., 23.9x16.5 cm, 58 colour plates
The history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic cleansing, revolutions, civil w...
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£19,00
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