art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
To Zenzi
ISBN: PB: 9781936970698, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig's odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mi...
PB:
£15,00
QTY:
Topsy-Turvy
ISBN: PB: 9780226783604, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 1 halftone
In his most expansive and unruly collection to date, the acclaimed poet Charles Bernstein gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down. Our time of "covidity", as Bernstein calls it in one of the book's most poignantly...
PB:
£20,00
QTY:
Train Music Writing / Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9781632430885, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 12 halftones
Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to addr...
PB:
£16,00
QTY:
Tropical Lung exi(s)t(s)
ISBN: PB: 9781632430892, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 22 halftones
Tropical Lung is a collection of writings and drawings from and to a new homeland, a vision of Panama and the Tecumseh Republic where technology is necessary for understanding the ancient, then is erased and transcended by an ever-present electronic...
PB:
£16,00
QTY:
Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes
ISBN: PB: 9780226763347, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as ve...
PB:
£32,00
QTY:
Unnatural Attitude Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226762982, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic – a phenomenological style, which sought a renewed contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence...
HB:
£44,00
QTY:
Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 1
ISBN: HB: 9780226688787, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
632 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 1 halftone
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic nation...
HB:
£150,00
QTY:
Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 2
ISBN: HB: 9780226688954, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of bas...
HB:
£150,00
QTY:
Vice Patrol Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226769783, ISBN: HB: 9780226769646, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and cl...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£84,00
QTY:
Vindicatio Aristotelis Two Works in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780866986311, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
992 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 line drawing
The Greek philosopher George of Trebizond started the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Renaissance with two works published in Rome in the late 1450s. The first was his Protectio Aristotelis Problematum (The Protection of Aristotle's Problemata), w...
HB:
£152,00
QTY: