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Thinking About History
ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...
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£15,00
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Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...
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£19,00
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£28,00
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Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables
 There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Writing the World of Policing The Difference Ethnography Makes
ISBN: PB: 9780226497648, ISBN: HB: 9780226497501, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research".Writing the World of Policing" brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforc...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Perfect Wave More Essays on Art and Democracy
ISBN: HB: 9780226333137, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing
When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out – he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just abou...
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£19,00
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China's Hidden Children Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226529073, ISBN: HB: 9780226352510, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children – mostly girls – have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of...
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£12,00
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£18,00
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Buried Norsemen at Herjolfsnes An Archaeological and Historical Study
ISBN: PB: 9788763523226, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
268 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This is the facsimile version of the fascinating book, originally published in 1924, in which Poul Norlund gives the first gathered, concise description of the old Norse settlement of Herjolfsnes on the south tip of Greenland, presenting the archaeol...
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£36,00
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Brattahlid
ISBN: PB: 9788763524261, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
163 pp., 27.9x21 cm
This is the facsimile edition of the original 1934 volume describing the process and findings of the archaeological expedition carried out over three months, from June till September, in 1932 to the old Viking settlement of Brattahlid ("Brattahlio" o...
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£21,00
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Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"
ISBN: PB: 9780226526478, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his "Incoherence of the Philosophers", "Moderation in Belief" is his most profound work of philosop...
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£32,50
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Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe An Interpretation of "The Spirit of the Laws"
ISBN: HB: 9780226482910, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Montesquieu is rightly famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates in his writings overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, a care...
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£37,50
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