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Machines of the Mind Personification in Medieval Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226776590, ISBN: HB: 9780226776453, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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Making the Second Ghetto Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780226728513, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient over the years. Hirsch's classic and groundbreaking wo...
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£16,00
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Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment
ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...
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£18,00
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£76,00
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Memoirs Hans Jonas
ISBN: PB: 9781684580460, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogen...
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£32,00
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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9780226770468, ISBN: HB: 9780226770321, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
There is little doubt that the political revolutions of the eighteenth century changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality find such fertile ground in France? What is the relationship between political ideas and econ...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...
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£20,00
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Climate of History in a Planetary Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226732862, ISBN: HB: 9780226100500, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of Th...
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2020 Volume 35
ISBN: PB: 9780226802688, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2021
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2020 presents research by leading scholars on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. George-Marios Angeletos, Zhen Huo, and Karthik Sastry ask how to model expectations without rational expectations. They find that...
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£72,00
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No Chronology
ISBN: PB: 9780226768977, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In No Chronology, Karen Fish's third collection of poems, she investigates those moments when the boundary of everyday life merges with history, imagination, and art. Fish was trained as a visual artist, and this way of seeing is intrinsic to her app...
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£15,00
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