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Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights
ISBN: HB: 9781883982799, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How d...
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£21,00
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After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226211862, ISBN: HB: 9780226081373, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of...
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£37,00
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Afternoon Men A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226186894, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange dri...
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£13,00
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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer
ISBN: PB: 9780226214016, ISBN: HB: 9780226684482, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advoc...
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£24,00
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Reuben, Reuben A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226170565, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
448 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 1 line drawing
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia – the school of John Updike and Cheever – this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of...
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£16,00
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Tunnel of Love A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226173474, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
256 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia – the school of John Updike and Cheever – this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of...
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Without a Stitch in Time A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
ISBN: PB: 9780226171067, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
336 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia – the school of John Updike and Cheever – this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of...
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£15,00
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Socrates and the Jews Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
ISBN: PB: 9780226213347, ISBN: HB: 9780226472478, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones
"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged...
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£24,00
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£47,00
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Communities of Style Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant
ISBN: HB: 9780226105611, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings
"Communities of Style" examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and...
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£56,00
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Democratic Constitution for Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226200682, ISBN: HB: 9780226200545, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 tables
America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school – something...
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£18,00
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£49,00
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