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Early Mubarak Years 1982-1989 The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume III
ISBN: HB: 9781909942110, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, July 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In these essays Naguib Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament, and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mubarak became President in 1981. 
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£28,00
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Economic Other Inequality in the American Political Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226691879, ISBN: HB: 9780226691732, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables
Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a...
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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...
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Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds
ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...
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£66,00
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Eleanor
ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...
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Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets
ISBN: PB: 9781947602663, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2020
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures
"Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets" draws attention to the simple but elusive architectural space of public and farmers markets. It discusses three seminal types of markets – heritage building, open-air pavil...
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Emergence of Ecosocialism Collected Essays by Joel Kovel
ISBN: PB: 9781940939957, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Emergence of Ecosocialism" is the first book by the author, activist and scholar Joel Kovel. Kovel led an expansive political and intellectual life from the mid-1960s until his death in the spring of 2018: in addition to being a foundational eco...
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Endless Periphery Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780226481456, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 127 colour plates, 45 halftones
While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy's historical seats of power, some of the era's most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the...
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Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps
Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...
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