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Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
ISBN: HB: 9781649590183, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
760 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 colour plates, 5 halftones, 9 figures
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Orm...
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£93,00
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Making a Mantra Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
ISBN: PB: 9780226767062, ISBN: HB: 9780226766904, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way in which it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and H...
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Martial The World of the Epigram
ISBN: PB: 9780226252551, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
268 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's cu...
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£28,00
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Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership
ISBN: PB: 9780226775814, ISBN: HB: 9780226775500, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 74 tables
Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them. As a result, the White House is not able to alter...
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£24,00
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£84,00
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Money Illusion Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780226773681, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 line drawings, 10 tables
Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics community in the 1960s to reevaluate its view of what caused the...
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£28,00
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Climate and the Making of Worlds Toward a Geohistorical Poetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226776286, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world-m...
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£22,00
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Cold Latitudes
ISBN: PB: 9781602234376, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2021
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From s...
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£12,00
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No Longer Outsiders Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill
ISBN: HB: 9780226765273, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 9 tables
With the rise of Black Lives Matter and immigrant rights protests, critics have questioned whether mainstream black and Latino civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and UnidosUS are in touch with the needs of minorities – especially from young...
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£76,00
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Non-Construction An Architectural Gesture in Artistic Research
ISBN: HB: 9783035803488, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 50 halftone
By defining a concept of architecture based on the tactile experience and not on construction, this book allows us to explore both discursive practice as the study of architectural art and the integration of architectural art as a discourse of spatia...
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Defense of Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226770154, ISBN: HB: 9780226653969, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful – and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies...
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