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Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...
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£37,50
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£112,50
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TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs
ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...
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Fort Necessity
ISBN: PB: 9780226533766, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer – ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work. Haunted by his father's autopsy of a...
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£13,50
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Telling It Like It Wasn't The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9780226512419, ISBN: HB: 9780226512389, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives a...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings
We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...
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£79,00
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Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles
ISBN: PB: 9780226527000, ISBN: HB: 9780226180762, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when h...
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Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780226501857, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plot...
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£22,50
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What Editors Do The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
ISBN: PB: 9780226299976, ISBN: HB: 9780226299839, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly unders...
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£19,00
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£56,00
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Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...
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£19,00
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£28,00
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Warhol's Working Class Pop Art and Egalitarianism
ISBN: HB: 9780226347776, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 51 halftones
This book explores Andy Warhol's creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol's work appropriated images, techniques, and...
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