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Design by the Book Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli Tu
ISBN: PB: 9781941792100, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, January 2017
128 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 80 halftones
Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most importa...
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Summer of Caprice
ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...
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We Were a Handful
ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...
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Science, Conservation, and National Parks
ISBN: PB: 9780226423005, ISBN: HB: 9780226422954, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 13 tables
As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitu...
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£34,00
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£97,50
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National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union
ISBN: PB: 9788763545020, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, January 2017
148 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 3 halftones, 5 figures
Though it's many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It's a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated...
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Integrating the Inner City The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation
ISBN: PB: 9780226478197, ISBN: HB: 9780226164397, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables
For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment – via the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation" – has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban la...
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Inside the Antisemitic Mind The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany
ISBN: PB: 9781611689846, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
454 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Antisemitism never disappeared in Europe. In fact, there is substantial evidence that it is again on the rise, manifest in violent acts against Jews in some quarters, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse in mainstream European society....
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Learning from Shenzhen China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
ISBN: PB: 9780226401126, ISBN: HB: 9780226401096, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transform...
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£80,00
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Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....
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£32,00
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Humanism Challenges Materialism in Economics and Economic History
ISBN: HB: 9780226429588, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings
Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its as...
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