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Critique and the Digital
ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...
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£24,00
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...
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£76,00
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Bridge of Light Yiddish Film between Two Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9781584658702, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Published to great acclaim in 1991, J. Hoberman's "Bridge of Light" is now back in print with a new foreword and final chapter discussing recent research, rediscoveries, and restorations.
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£36,00
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Pynchon's Sound of Music
ISBN: PB: 9783035802320, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2020
448 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm, 18 halftones
"Pynchon's Sound of Music" is dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and interpreting the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's work. An original mix of close and distant readings, this monograph employs a variety of disciplines – from li...
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£32,00
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Charter School City What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226694641, ISBN: HB: 9780226671789, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables
In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment – eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with...
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£16,00
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£48,00
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Taking Leave, Taking Liberties American Troops on the World War II Home Front
ISBN: HB: 9780226687049, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here". But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn't only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by th...
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£20,00
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Guide to Peril Strait and Wrangell Narrows, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234000, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
150 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 6 maps, 5 charts, 10 halftones
Learning how to pilot a ship through Wrangell Narrows and Peril Strait is not an easy matter for a vessel operator new to the area, or even for those with experience. It takes time, patience, and a certain appetite for risk. The older generation of c...
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£24,00
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Fluxus Forms Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network
ISBN: HB: 9780226354927, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 12 colour plates, 70 halftones
"PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art... Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples", writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthr...
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£40,00
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La Chica's Field Guide to Banzai Living
ISBN: PB: 9781632430786, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
From the small towns strung along the coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i to the land-locked landscapes of Paraguay to the volcanic surface of Venus, this collection of poetry is a field guide to flora, fauna, and mineralia encountered, real, and imag...
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Chicago Apartments A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury
ISBN: HB: 9780226610870, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 344 duotones
The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, m...
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£68,00
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