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During-the-Event
ISBN: PB: 9781602233829, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For D. E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same".During-the-Event" is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the...
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£17,00
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Grammars of Approach Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque
ISBN: HB: 9780226467665, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables
In "Grammars of Approach", Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "ap...
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£79,00
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Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment
ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...
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£34,00
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Eaglemania Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America
ISBN: PB: 9781892850348, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, March 2019
165 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 85 colour plates, 40 halftones
"Eaglemania" celebrates Boston College's mascot, a monumental Japanese bronze eagle, following its recent conservation and return to view. Donated in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (1866-1937) and his wife, Isabel (18...
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£27,00
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On the Heels of Ignorance Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
ISBN: PB: 9780226616384, ISBN: HB: 9780226616247, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley's sweeping new book tell us, the h...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Renewal Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II
ISBN: HB: 9780226605234, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries' complicity wi...
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£38,00
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Creativity on Demand The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226606972, ISBN: HB: 9780226606835, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation – and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting generates courses, workshops, books, and conferences that all claim to hold the secrets of succes...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Logic of Invention
ISBN: PB: 9780999157053, University of Chicago Press, HAU, January 2019
135 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this long-awaited sequel to "The Invention of Culture", Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible,...
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Aristotle Democracy and Political Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...
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£49,00
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Musical Vitalities Ventures in a Biotic Aesthetics of Music
ISBN: HB: 9780226594705, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings
Does it make sense to refer to bird song – a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate – as art? What about a pack of wolves howling in unison or the cacophony made by an entire r...
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£30,00
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