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Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Roughly For the North
ISBN: PB: 9781602233621, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North" "Roughly for the North" is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an a...
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£11,00
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Robert Grosvenor
ISBN: HB: 9780941548724, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour plates
Over a fifty-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. Grosvenor frequently uses industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, res...
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£30,00
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Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226578507, ISBN: HB: 9780226578477, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 line drawings, 2 tables
America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens re...
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£22,50
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£68,00
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Jennifer Packer Tenderheaded
ISBN: HB: 9780941548717, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, September 2018
96 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 38 colour plates
In her solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society in 2017, "Tenderheaded", Jennifer Packer established herself as one of the most compelling painters of her generation. The exhibition, a selection of portraits and paintings of funerary bouquets, base...
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£27,00
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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975
ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....
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£34,00
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Credulity A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
ISBN: PB: 9780226532332, ISBN: HB: 9780226532165, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the...
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£20,50
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£62,00
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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands
ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...
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£37,50
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Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...
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£14,50
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Of Beards and Men The Revealing History of Facial Hair
ISBN: PB: 9780226479200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284002, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones
Beards – they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipste...
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