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Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones
This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...
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£36,00
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Liberal Suppression Section 501(c)(3) and the Taxation of Speech
ISBN: HB: 9780226521947, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the course of exempting religious, educational, and charitable organizations from federal income tax, section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code requires them to refrain from campaign speech and much speech to influence legislation. These spee...
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£41,00
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Bombs Away Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration
ISBN: HB: 9780226547541, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones
When viewed from space, the Korean Peninsula is crossed by a thin green ribbon. On the ground, its mix of dense vegetation and cleared borderlands serves as home to dozens of species that are extinct or endangered elsewhere on the peninsula. This is...
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£26,00
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Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison
ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...
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£15,00
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Losers Dream On
ISBN: PB: 9780226533599, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...
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£13,50
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God's Businessmen Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War
ISBN: HB: 9780226509778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II....
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£34,00
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What Philosophy Is For
ISBN: HB: 9780226365282, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With "What Philosophy Is For", Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy, education, science, and narrative, developing a Socratic criti...
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£34,00
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Wrong Turnings How the Left Got Lost
ISBN: PB: 9780226505886, ISBN: HB: 9780226505749, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state interven...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Ivory and Paper Adventures In and Out of Time
ISBN: PB: 9781602233461, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2018
273 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermont – until a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax? teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her l...
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£13,00
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Language and Prehistory of the Indo-European Peoples A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9788763545310, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2018
350 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 4 colour plates, 7 halftones, 2 maps, 3 line drawings
Our knowledge of neolithic and bronze age Europe is growing rapidly, and this book offers a major contribution to our understanding of the language and history of the peoples of that period. The editors have taken a deliberately cross-disciplinary ap...
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£61,50
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