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Lost Library The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781512603095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Strashun Library was among the most important Jewish public institutions in Vilna, and indeed in Eastern Europe, prior to its destruction during World War II. Mattityahu Strashun, descended from a long and distinguished line of rabbis, bequeathed...
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£28,00
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Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics
ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Do You See Ice? Inuit and Americans at Home and Away
ISBN: HB: 9780226580135, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Many Americans imagine the Arctic as harsh, freezing, and nearly uninhabitable. The living Arctic, however – the one experienced by native Inuit and others who worked and traveled there – is a diverse region shaped by much more than stereotype and my...
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£38,00
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Divine Spark of Syracuse
ISBN: PB: 9781512603057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and th...
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£16,00
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Osiris, Volume 33 Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories
ISBN: PB: 9780226602325, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capital...
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£27,00
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Beyond Debt Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780226552088, ISBN: HB: 9780226551920, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change – yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. "Beyond Debt" describes e...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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Living in the Stone Age Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy
ISBN: PB: 9780226570242, ISBN: HB: 9780226570105, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones
In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as "living, as it were, in the Stone Age". For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people "primitive", but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists...
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£57,00
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Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise
ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables
Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Reluctant Landscapes Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal
ISBN: PB: 9780226252544, ISBN: HB: 9780226252407, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 11 tables
West African history is inseparable from the history of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. According to historical archaeologist Francois Richard, however, the dominance of this narrative not only colors the range of political discourse about...
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£30,00
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£90,00
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Worldmakers Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226598871, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, excitin...
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