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Pontecorvo Affair A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics
ISBN: HB: 9780226816647, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones
In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an exper...
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£43,50
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I Swear I Saw This Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
ISBN: PB: 9780226789835, ISBN: HB: 9780226789828, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
176 pp., 22x14 cm, 30 halftones
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 – as well as its capti...
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Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226792873, ISBN: HB: 9780226792866, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
384 pp., 25x15 cm, 38 tables, 8 line illus.
In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art...
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Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals
ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm
Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...
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£56,00
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Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited China, Japan, and the United States
ISBN: PB: 9780226805047, ISBN: HB: 9780226805030, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 95 halftones
Published twenty years ago, the original "Preschool in Three Cultures" was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead au...
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Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence Selected Papers
ISBN: PB: 9780226789712, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
332 pp., 20.1x13.5 cm
Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his cont...
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£28,00
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Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...
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Wannabe U Inside the Corporate University
ISBN: PB: 9780226815305, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.9x15 cm
Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. Aping their boardroom idols, the new corporate administrators at such u...
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Gutai Decentering Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226801667, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1 map, 69 halftones, 12 colour illus.
"Gutai" is the first book in English to examine Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental...
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£34,50
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Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America
ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.
Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...
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