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Four Shakespearean Period Pieces
ISBN: PB: 9780226785226, ISBN: HB: 9780226785196, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anach...
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£22,00
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Fragile Finitude A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology
ISBN: HB: 9780226764153, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is in the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed, and it is there that religious scholar Michael Fishban...
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£28,00
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Finding True North First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Build Modern Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234437, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Melting sea ice and simmering volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig got a job at the local Fairbanks Daily News-Miner following journalism school. An environmentalist at heart,...
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Fighter in Velvet Gloves Study Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781602234451, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1945, Elizabeth Peratrovich stood before the Alaska Territorial Legislative Session and gave a powerful speech about her childhood and her experiences being treated as a second-class citizen. Her heartfelt testimony led to the passing of the landm...
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£8,00
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Fake Anthropological Keywords
ISBN: PB: 9780997367577, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2021
120 pp., 17.7x10 cm, 6 halftones
Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, frauds, knock-offs – such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. Do all cultures equally spend an incredible amount of energy and labor on detecting differe...
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£11,50
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Futbol in the Park Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties
ISBN: PB: 9780226748887, ISBN: HB: 9780226748740, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
You know the scene: amateur soccer players battling over the ball, spectators cheering from the sidelines, vendors selling their wares from carts. Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Forgotten Revolution The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils
ISBN: PB: 9781551647159, ISBN: HB: 9781551647173, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals bega...
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£45,99
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Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
ISBN: PB: 9780226746951, ISBN: HB: 9780226746814, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftones
Today it seems the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, are hardening. Daily editorials compare the contemporary arrival of Muslim refugees with the "Muslim conquest of 711", warn...
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Field Guide to Snow
ISBN: PB: 9781602234147, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
140 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates
People love snow. They love to ski and sled on it, snowshoe through it, and watch it fall from the sky. They love the way it blankets a landscape, making it look tranquil and beautiful. Few people, however, know how snow works. What makes it possible...
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£20,00
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Foot in the Door Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu
ISBN: HB: 9789385932939, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their political oppression. The authors examine the patri...
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