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Van Gogh on Demand China and the Readymade
ISBN: PB: 9780226024899, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones
In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million pa...
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Public School Advantage Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226088914, ISBN: HB: 9780226088884, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 28 tables
Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vo...
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German Idealism and the Jew The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
ISBN: PB: 9780226500966, ISBN: HB: 9780226500942, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "German Idealism and the Jew", Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the re...
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Making England Western Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226923147, ISBN: HB: 9780226923130, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
The central argument of Edward Said's "Orientalism" is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that pr...
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£78,00
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Outsider Scientists Routes to Innovation in Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226078403, ISBN: HB: 9780226078373, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings
"Outsider Scientists" describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose prim...
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£91,00
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27
ISBN: HB: 9780226097794, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2013
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the "fiscal cliff". Given the importance of fiscal issues, it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue. In keeping with the NBER's tradition of carrying out r...
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Prehistoric Future Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780226823720, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 60 halftones
One of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings. In "Prehistoric Future", Ralph Ubl approaches Ernst like no one else has,...
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Fermi Remembered
ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings
Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...
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Hoodlums Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226104638, ISBN: HB: 9780226847191, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes – individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black...
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Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa
ISBN: PB: 9780226103822, ISBN: HB: 9780226734002, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 9 maps, 13 line drawings
Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history – including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the concepti...
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