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After the Rubicon Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War
ISBN: PB: 9780226453569, ISBN: HB: 9780226453552, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 16 tables, 2 halftones
When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because...
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£30,00
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£84,00
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Language of Statutes Laws and Their Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780226767963, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables, 1 halftone
Pulling the rug out from debates about interpretation, "The Language of Statutes" joins together learning from law, linguistics, and cognitive science to illuminate the fundamental issues and problems in this highly contested area. Here, Lawrence M....
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£47,00
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German City, Jewish Memory The Story of Worms
ISBN: PB: 9781584659228, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German and Jewish ways of life have been interwoven in Worms, Germany, for over a thousand years. Despite radical changes brought about by expulsion of Jews, wartime devastation, social advancement, cultural and religious renewal, and the Jewish comm...
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£32,00
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Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
ISBN: HB: 9780226470788, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 39 halftones
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet – a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long sin...
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£47,00
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Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora
ISBN: PB: 9781584659570, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection of essays examines an important and under-studied topic in early modern Jewish social history" – the family life of Sephardi Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire as well as in communities in Western Europe. At the height of its power...
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£24,00
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Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781584659051, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women's experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous stud...
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£38,00
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Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color
ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.
Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...
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£17,00
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£31,00
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25
ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...
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£7,50
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Confronting Vulnerability The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics
ISBN: HB: 9780226740096, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In "Confronting Vulnerability", Jonathan Wyn Schofer carefully examines these texts to find out why their c...
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£39,00
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Forgotten Frontier A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9780226330310, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 9 figures, 4 tables, 1 halftone
The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties...
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£28,00
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