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You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9781602232358, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...
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£13,50
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Children of the Land Adversity and Success in Rural America
ISBN: PB: 9780226212531, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
394 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 37 line drawings, 56 tables
A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age...
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£28,00
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Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People
ISBN: PB: 9788024625171, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
320 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 27 line drawings, 2 maps, 79 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The chronically homeless face a stark reality: lack of access to support systems, adequate shelter, and sustenance, with little hope for something better. For young people, however, life o...
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Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings
Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door.   In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226211725, ISBN: HB: 9780226038353, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone – or oneself – was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic ele...
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£47,00
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Eating the Enlightenment Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
ISBN: PB: 9780226214467, ISBN: HB: 9780226768861, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
"Eating the Enlightenment" offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors an...
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£39,00
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Commercial Visions Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226117744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 39 halftones, 3 tables
Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions", Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded na...
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Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces
ISBN: PB: 9789383074723, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
338 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space"‌ – and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women, but also the poor, transgender people, and others...
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Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy On Original Forgetting
ISBN: PB: 9780226214948, ISBN: HB: 9780226852546, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm
In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical...
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£42,00
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