ledochowicz.com

America

Wives Not Slaves Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions

Sword Kirsten

ISBN: HB: 9780226757483, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 tables

Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette – a more common practice for the time and place than contemporary readers mig...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

Sewell William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226770468, ISBN: HB: 9780226770321, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

There is little doubt that the political revolutions of the eighteenth century changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality find such fertile ground in France? What is the relationship between political ideas and econ...

PB:

£28,00

QTY:

HB:

£84,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Open Secret The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton

Syrett Nicholas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226761558, ISBN: HB: 9780226638744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In 1922, Robert Allerton – described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago" – met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. From then on, they were vi...

PB:

£16,00

QTY:

HB:

£76,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Poetry

Portulans

Sommer Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226737393, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taking inspiration from medieval sea charts – portulans – the poems in Jason Sommer's collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a journey. Creating a coordinate system charting paths between ports and the dangers that surr...

PB:

£15,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Literary Criticism

Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture

Stewart Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...

PB:

£23,00

QTY:

HB:

£27,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Poetry

In the Antarctic Circle

Sweeney Dennis James

ISBN: PB: 9781938769726, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a l...

PB:

£14,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Aesthetics of the Commons

Sollfrank Cornelia, Stalder Felix, Niederberger Shusha

ISBN: PB: 9783035803457, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What do a feminist server, an art space located in a public park in North London, a so-called pirate library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status, and an art school that emphasizes collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Performing Arts

Macbeth

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780866986601, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, March 2021
122 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Migdalia Cruz's Macbeth, the Witches run the world. The Macbeths live out a dark cautionary tale of love, greed, and power, falling from glory into calamity as the Witches spin their fate. Translating Shakespeare's language for a modern audience,...

PB:

£8,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Business & Economics

Leaderspritz The Interpersonal Leadership Cocktail

Schmidt Mast Marianne, Palese Tristan, Tur Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9782889153879, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Successful leaders tend to have one thing in common: They are experts in social interaction. They express themselves clearly and effectively, understand their colleagues, and adapt to all situations. A leader needs to not only be able to inspire, mot...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Public Health

Education

Creating Culture through Health Leadership

Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...

HB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list