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Localization and Its Discontents A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
ISBN: HB: 9780226288208, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 halftones
Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding...
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Tourist Attractions Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780226309101, ISBN: HB: 9780226309071, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing
While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In "Tourist Attractions", Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that foc...
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226345222, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
456 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 13 halftones
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members – among the...
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Shared Future Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226306025, ISBN: HB: 9780226305974, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 25 line drawings
Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In "A...
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£79,00
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Confederate Cities The Urban South during the Civil War Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226300207, ISBN: HB: 9780226300177, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted...
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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings
Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...
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£67,50
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Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612
ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...
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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
ISBN: PB: 9780226324630, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is administrative law unlawful? This is a central question in contemporary law and politics, and it has become all the more important with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain li...
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Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco
ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table
In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...
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£66,00
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North in the World Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226333540, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"North in the World" presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish A...
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