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Tribunal
ISBN: PB: 9781632430663, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The three works of poetry that constitute "Tribunal" were written in the current context of seemingly ubiquitous warfare and the specter of unabashed neo-fascism, ethno-nationalism, and – especially in the United States – reassertions of white suprem...
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£14,00
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henceforce A Travel Poetic
ISBN: PB: 9781632430687, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
48 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm, 1 halftone
In "henceforce", Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though Hilliard's poems explore air travel, transcontinental l...
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£11,00
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Search for Justice Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950-1975
ISBN: PB: 9780226614311, ISBN: HB: 9780226614281, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hol...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Downriver Into the Future of Water in the West
ISBN: HB: 9780226432670, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some...
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£19,00
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Ku Klux Kulture America and the Klan in the 1920s
ISBN: PB: 9780226637938, ISBN: HB: 9780226376158, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In "Ku Klux Kulture", Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux...
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£25,00
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£36,00
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Conquest of Ruins The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
ISBN: PB: 9780226588193, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in "The Conquest of Ruins", what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginat...
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£27,00
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Satan and His Daughter, the Angel Liberty Selected Verses
ISBN: PB: 9780997228731, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, March 2019
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, "Les Miserables" – but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, "La Fin de Satan", left unfinished and not published until after...
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£19,00
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Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 25
ISBN: HB: 9780226646534, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
324 pp., 23x15 cm
"The Supreme Court Economic" Review is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary law and economics series with a particular focus on economic and social science analysis of judicial decision making, institutional analysis of law and legal st...
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£45,00
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On the Outside Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration
ISBN: PB: 9780226607641, ISBN: HB: 9780226607504, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 8 tables
America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former prisoners who rejoin society each year".On the Outside" examines the lives of twe...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Atlas of Religions in Czechia
ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...
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£30,00
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