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Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones
If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...
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£22,00
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Invasive Species in a Globalized World Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226166186, ISBN: HB: 9780226166049, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 34 halftones, 15 line drawings, 13 tables
Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separate...
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£36,00
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American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...
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£32,00
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Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War
ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table
The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...
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£40,00
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Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut
ISBN: HB: 9780226187259, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraug...
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£36,00
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Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection
ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...
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£26,50
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Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...
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£19,00
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Resisting Abstraction Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780226159065, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
184 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 92 colour plates, 46 halftones
Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With "Resisting Abstraction", the first Engli...
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Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886
ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones
On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...
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Fuckology Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
ISBN: PB: 9780226186610, ISBN: HB: 9780226186580, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists – or "fuckologists" to use his own memorable term – John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert.  Money...
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£64,00
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