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Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones
In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...
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£36,00
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Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat
ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...
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£19,00
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Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City
ISBN: PB: 9780226435589, ISBN: HB: 9780226435442, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 3 tables
America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars – both public and private – fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash m...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Zombie XI The Boy Who Got Sick of Warming the Bench
ISBN: PB: 9781908446480, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Leonard is on the bench. In the dead zone. Stuck there like a zombie.  And it's not as if his soccer team is even any good without him! They lose all the time – until lightning strikes. When his team plays near a nuclear power plant, a weird energy p...
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£8,50
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Values of Happiness Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life
ISBN: PB: 9780986132575, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fu...
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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226436739, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones
Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin besti...
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£37,00
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Religion of Existence Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre
ISBN: HB: 9780226404516, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
"The Religion of Existence" reopens an old debate on an important question: What was existentialism? At the heart of existentialism, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story about secular thought experimenting with the traditions of European Christianity. T...
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£34,00
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Elements of Time Series Econometrics An Applied Approach (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9788024631998, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
220 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A time series is a sequence of numbers collected at regular intervals over a period of time. Designed with emphasis on the practical application of theoretical tools, Elements of Time Seri...
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Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps Ideology
ISBN: PB: 9780226424606, ISBN: HB: 9780226424576, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 figures, 16 tables
Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compellin...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
ISBN: HB: 9783037347423, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones
Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effecti...
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£56,50
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