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Conservative Case for Class Actions
ISBN: HB: 9780226659336, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable. Yet years of attacks by corporate America and unfavorable rulings by the Supreme Court have left its future uncertain. In this book, Brian T. Fitzp...
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£25,00
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Being Me Being You Adam Smith and Empathy
ISBN: PB: 9780226661896, ISBN: HB: 9780226661759, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. But how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker de...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Volcanoes and Wine From Pompeii to Napa
ISBN: HB: 9780226177229, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 colour plates, 27 halftones
There's a reason we pay top dollar for champagne and that bottles of wine from prestige vineyards cost as much as a car: a place's distinct geographical attributes, known as terroir to wine buffs, determine the unique profile of a wine – and some rar...
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Harpo Before the Opus
ISBN: PB: 9781632430748, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture. Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility. Here we find Harpo, reaching into the fr...
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£14,00
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Voice as Something More Essays toward Materiality
ISBN: PB: 9780226647173, ISBN: HB: 9780226656397, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 line drawings,
In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In "The Voice as Something Mor"e, Martha Feld...
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£79,00
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Akulmiut Neqait Fish and Food of the Akulmiut
ISBN: PB: 9781602233867, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
350 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 60 colour plates
For centuries, the Akulmiut people – a Yup'ik group – have been sustained by the annual movements of whitefish. It is a food that sustains and defines them. To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions w...
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On Interpretive Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226614007, ISBN: HB: 9780226613956, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 line drawings
"Interpretation" is a term that encompasses both the most esoteric and the most fundamental activities of our lives, from analyzing medical images to the million ways we perceive other people's actions. Today, we also leave interpretation to the like...
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£57,00
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Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief
ISBN: PB: 9780226239699, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
436 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that...
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Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing Constructing "Democracy and Social Ethics"
ISBN: HB: 9780226631325, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
In "Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing", Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams's reasoning in her first book, "Democracy and Social Ethics", is thoroughly evolutionary. While "Democracy and Social Ethics", a foundational...
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£34,00
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"Discourse and Truth" and "Parresia"
ISBN: HB: 9780226509464, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
295 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
The volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, "Parresia", delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitle...
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