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Birth of the State Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China
ISBN: PB: 9788024622149, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2013
358 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 52 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Birth of the State" provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. Petr Charvat a...
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£19,00
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Holocaust Mothers and Daughters Family, History, and Trauma
ISBN: PB: 9781611684766, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-hum...
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£30,00
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Sexual Fields Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226084992, ISBN: HB: 9780226084855, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table
In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas...
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£73,00
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Best School in Jerusalem Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900-1960
ISBN: PB: 9781611684858, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Annie Edith (Hannah Judith) Landau (1873-1945), born in London to immigrant parents and educated as a teacher, moved to Jerusalem in 1899 to teach English at the Anglo-Jewish Association's Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls. A year later she beca...
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£32,00
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Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
ISBN: HB: 9780226091976, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native lan...
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£36,00
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Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...
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£28,00
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Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups
ISBN: PB: 9780226086811, ISBN: HB: 9780226086781, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings, 28 tables
Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elec...
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£26,00
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£73,00
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Bitter Roots The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226086026, ISBN: HB: 9780226085524, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to un...
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£28,50
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£91,00
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Boccaccio A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
ISBN: HB: 9780226079189, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings – which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to my...
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£44,00
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Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226104461, ISBN: HB: 9780226798608, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm – one that has affecte...
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