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Final Story Science, Myth, and Beginnings
ISBN: HB: 9780226476124, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Popular science readers embrace epics – the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wi...
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£34,00
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Case for Contention Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226456348, ISBN: HB: 9780226456201, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
144 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like American schools are hotbeds of controversy. But as Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson show in this insightful book, it is precisely because such to...
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£17,00
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£51,00
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Machiavelli's Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780226434803, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise "The Prince". Others cite the "Discourses on Livy" to argue that Machiavelli is actually...
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£34,00
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Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226479484, ISBN: HB: 9780226135731, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq War have in recent years been the subject of significant media attention, including stories in the "Wall Street Journal" and "New York Times". Time magazine even called him "one of th...
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£27,00
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£36,00
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Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec
ISBN: PB: 9780226391687, ISBN: HB: 9780226391540, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 54 halftones, 1 line drawing
Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province". Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services – a transformation rooted in the "Qui...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited
ISBN: PB: 9780226490670, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Tocqueville's thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interac...
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£22,50
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Democratic Theory of Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Hidden Wealth of Nations The Scourge of Tax Havens
ISBN: PB: 9780226422640, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 2 tables
We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at wh...
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£12,00
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Say No to the Devil The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis
ISBN: PB: 9780226380988, ISBN: HB: 9780226234106, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music". Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead – who...
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£15,00
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£24,00
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Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones
Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...
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