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Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 23
ISBN: HB: 9780226337913, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23x15 cm
"Supreme Court Economic Review" is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary series that applies world class economic and legal scholarship to the work of the Supreme Court of the United States. Contributions typically provide an economic an...
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£45,00
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Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility
ISBN: HB: 9780226280110, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Hegel's Theory of Intelligibility" picks up on recent revisionist readings of Hegel to offer a productive new interpretation of his notoriously difficult work, the "Science of Logic". Rocio Zambrana transforms the revisionist tradition by distilling...
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£30,00
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Reading Sounds Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226312781, ISBN: HB: 9780226312644, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 18 tables
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henc...
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£96,00
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Planet of Viruses Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226294209, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 12 colour plates
The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest living things known t...
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£10,00
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Art Against the Law
ISBN: PB: 9780982879832, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, February 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In 1968, Chicago made headlines for the ferocity of its police response to protesters at the Democratic National Convention, prompting outrage in the art world. Some artists pulled their shows from the city and called for a boycott until the mayor le...
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£15,00
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Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, Volume 9 Perspectives on Semantic Representations for Textual Inference
ISBN: PB: 9781575868448, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2015
364 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT)" is an open-access journal that focuses on the relationships between linguistic insights and language technology. In conjunction with machine learning and statistical techniques, deeper and more sophis...
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£20,50
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Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...
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£36,00
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Kracauer. Photographic Archive
ISBN: HB: 9783037346716, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 30 colour plates, 280 halftones
Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work o...
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Performing Images Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780935573558, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2014
224 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates
Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese". Although the spectacle o...
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Spoken Sibe Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech
ISBN: PB: 9788024621036, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2013
212 pp., 24x17 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At present, the Sibe language is the only still-active oral variety of Manchu, the language of the indigenous tribe of Manchuria. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most wi...
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