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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware
ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...
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£10,00
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...
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£36,00
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Four Lectures on Ethics Anthropological Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780990505075, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field – Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Di...
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£26,50
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Geography of Water
ISBN: PB: 9781602232709, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pa...
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£13,00
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Planning Matter Acting with Things
ISBN: PB: 9780226297392, ISBN: HB: 9780226297255, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world – from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms – yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which th...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Capital and Interest
ISBN: HB: 9780226274874, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings
Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in "Capital and Interest" see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sop...
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£41,50
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2014, Issue 37
ISBN: PB: 9781846381553, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...
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£7,50
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Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
ISBN: PB: 9780226293776, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and...
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£17,00
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – February
ISBN: HB: 9780842529402, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, November 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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Secularism in Antebellum America
ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...
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£42,00
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