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Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves
ISBN: HB: 9780226599854, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 tables
Urban theorists have tried for decades to define exactly what a neighborhood is. But behind that daunting existential question lies a much murkier problem: never mind how you define them – how do you make neighborhoods productive and fair for their r...
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£42,00
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Samizdat Past & Present
ISBN: PB: 9788024640334, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
250 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature – the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvik Vaculik, and Jachym Topol, among many others – has, in fact,...
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£18,00
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Battle in the Mind Fields
ISBN: HB: 9780226550800, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 2 line drawings, 4 tables
"We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side". Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard La...
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£34,00
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Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...
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Equestrian Cultures Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226589510, ISBN: HB: 9780226583044, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 1 table
As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities – from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and ther...
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£68,00
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Cow with Ear Tag #1389
ISBN: PB: 9780226582856, ISBN: HB: 9780226582719, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 5 line drawings
To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals – animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly beni...
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£17,00
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£53,00
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Critical Terms for Animal Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226575568, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In "Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination", Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a gu...
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Out of Easy Reach
ISBN: PB: 9780985096069, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, September 2018
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 3 maps
Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition "Out of Easy Reach" presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Lat...
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Fighting Financial Crises Learning from the Past
ISBN: HB: 9780226479514, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables
If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close...
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