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Meaning, Form, and Body
ISBN: PB: 9781575865942, ISBN: HB: 9781575865959, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm
"Meaning, Form, and Body" brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerou...
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£28,00
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Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist
ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones
Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...
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£15,00
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Aleutian Ethnography
ISBN: PB: 9781602230392, ISBN: HB: 9781602230286, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones
Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turner's admittedly fragmentary ethnogra...
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£20,50
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£36,00
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Taken by Design Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971
ISBN: PB: 9780226811673, University of Chicago Press, May 2002
272 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 20 colour plates, 250 halftones
One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of i...
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£47,00
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Picture in Question Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation
ISBN: PB: 9780226791296, University of Chicago Press, April 1999
151 pp., 21.6x14 cm
A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses s...
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£19,50
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Critical Terms for Religious Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226791579, ISBN: HB: 9780226791562, University of Chicago Press, August 1998
430 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 table
A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop musi...
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£23,50
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Learning to Look A Handbook for the Visual Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226791548, University of Chicago Press, June 1981
186 pp., 23.5x14.9 cm, 2 colour plates, 42 halftones
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look". This handy guide...
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£11,50
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Fine Arts in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226791517, University of Chicago Press, February 1981
280 pp., 21.5x18.7 cm, 250 halftones
Contents: Series Editor's Preface Author's Preface Introduction 1670-1776 Beginnings 1776-1860 Art and the New Republic The Art of Recording America Europe and the Great Tradition The Identification of Art with America The Persistence of...
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£33,00
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