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Crap A History of Cheap Stuff in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226664354, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 105 halftones
Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as...
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£23,99
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Charter School City What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226694641, ISBN: HB: 9780226671789, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 line drawings, 2 tables
In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment – eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with...
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£48,00
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Chattering Mind A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk
ISBN: PB: 9780226677774, ISBN: HB: 9780226677637, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables
From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass", the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatte...
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£84,00
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Chemically Imbalanced Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
ISBN: PB: 9780226686684, ISBN: HB: 9780226686547, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Everyday suffering – those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives – is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it...
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£72,00
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Courting the Abyss Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780226717784, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Courting the Abyss" updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread the...
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£20,00
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Challenge of Nietzsche How to Approach His Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226679396, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most widely read authors in the world, from the time of his death to the present – as well as one of the most controversial. He has been celebrated as a theorist of individual creativity and self-care but also condem...
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Chicago Apartments A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury
ISBN: HB: 9780226610870, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 344 duotones
The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, m...
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£68,00
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Coast of Scenic Wonders Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca
ISBN: PB: 9780981661858, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2020
229 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 166 colour plates, 25 halftones
This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal l...
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Civic Gifts Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
ISBN: PB: 9780226670836, ISBN: HB: 9780226559360, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables
In "Civic Gifts", Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despi...
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£84,00
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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....
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£34,00
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