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Cultural History of Heredity
ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.
It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...
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£20,50
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£47,00
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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering
ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing
In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...
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£13,00
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Support Networks
ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...
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£15,00
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Suki
ISBN: HB: 9789383074105, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "Suki", Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared between herself an...
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£16,00
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Family Secret And Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9789383074068, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
160 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm
On a rainy afternoon in Cherrapunji, the postman arrives with a letter for fourteen-year-old Saphira, and her life will never be the same. Dalinia, meanwhile, seems to have the perfect life: successful husband, cute children, a beautiful home. But he...
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£11,50
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Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones
In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...
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£22,00
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£42,00
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Bricks and Mortar The Making of a Real Education at the Stanford Online High School
ISBN: PB: 9781575867397, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The rise of online learning is rapidly transforming how and what teachers teach, and even who – or what – teachers are. In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost. Not on...
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£22,50
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Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional Approach to Development
ISBN: PB: 9780226214771, ISBN: HB: 9780226771670, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 13 tables
Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World...
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£28,00
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£52,00
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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader
ISBN: HB: 9780226203003, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 64 colour plates, 48 line drawings
German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker in his own time, he is now experien...
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£30,00
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Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints
ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...
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£32,00
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