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Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226951249, ISBN: HB: 9780226951232, University of Chicago Press, October 1993
264 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 15 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 figures
Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual...
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£22,50
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£55,00
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How to Study Suggestions for High-School and College Students
ISBN: PB: 9780226451176, ISBN: HB: 9780226451183, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
64 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm
A complete guide for successful studying, "How to Study" is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at the University of Chicago, this smart book has helped generations of students throughout the countr...
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£10,50
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£28,00
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Concept of Political Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226771939, ISBN: HB: 9780226771915, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
317 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
What is good political judgment? Is it a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it more like an art, the product of intuition, feeling, or even chance? Peter J. Steinberger shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of in...
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£25,50
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£80,00
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English Verb Classes and Alternations A Preliminary Investigation
ISBN: PB: 9780226475332, University of Chicago Press, September 1993
366 pp., 23x15 cm
In this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for st...
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£31,00
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Mapping It Out Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226534176, ISBN: HB: 9780226534169, University of Chicago Press, June 1993
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 112 maps
Writers know only too well how long it can take – and how awkward it can be – to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or expla...
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£14,50
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£70,00
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Things Maps Don't Tell Us An Adventure into Map Interpretation
ISBN: PB: 9780226488776, University of Chicago Press, June 1993
174 pp., 26.2x18.9 cm, line drawings throughout
Foreword to the 1993 Edition Introduction I. Coast Lines 1. Distorted Coast Lines. A Map of the World of 1589 2. Projections and Protuberances. Gulf of Mexico 3. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Denmark 4. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Florida 5. Peninsu...
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£25,50
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Color Harmonies
ISBN: PB: 9780226281964, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
100 pp., 20.5x20.5 cm, 10 halftones, 40 colour plates
Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In "Color Harmonies", Augusto Garau systematically investigates the rol...
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£26,00
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Asian Mythologies
ISBN: PB: 9780226064567, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout
These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of t...
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£31,00
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Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze Picasso's Pursuit of the Model
ISBN: HB: 9780226439839, University of Chicago Press, April 1993
273 pp., 24.7x23.3 cm, 154 halftones
Although Pablo Picasso's name is virtually synonymous with modernity, his late graphics repeatedly turn back to the traditional theme of the artist and model. Had the aging artist turned reactionary, or is Picasso's treatment of the theme more subver...
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£81,00
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Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World
ISBN: PB: 9780226894874, University of Chicago Press, March 1993
198 pp., 21.9x14.2 cm, 13 halftones
In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon crit...
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£19,50
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