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Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226511603, ISBN: HB: 9780226511573, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientati...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists
ISBN: PB: 9780997228717, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, February 2018
180 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive c...
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£15,00
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Postgenomic Condition Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome
ISBN: PB: 9780226510453, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
While the sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement, the availability and manipulation of such a vast amount of data about our species has inevitably led to questions that are increasingly fundamental and urgent: now that information...
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Well at Morning Selected Poems, 1925-1971
ISBN: HB: 9788024634258, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
90 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 25 colour plates, 5 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Springtide" A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The c...
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£21,00
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Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
ISBN: PB: 9780226528267, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 51 halftones
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...
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£22,50
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What Philosophy Wants from Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...
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£67,50
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Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era
ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...
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Pursuit of Harmony Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community
ISBN: HB: 9780226496979, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God", a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superio...
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Terrestrial Lessons The Conquest of the World as Globe
ISBN: HB: 9780226476575, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 51 halftones
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which s...
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£34,00
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Scale
ISBN: PB: 9780932171597, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, November 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 80 colour plates
Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale – both within the American critical t...
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£19,00
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