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Guide to Chicago's Murals
ISBN: PB: 9780226305998, University of Chicago Press, April 2001
520 pp., 19.7x15.6 cm, 204 colour plates, 35 halftones
Chicago is a city known for its fabulous architecture and public sculpture by artists such as Picasso and Calder, but anyone who has seen the gorgeous lunettes in the Auditorium Theater or the South Side's Wall of Respect, which inaugurated the city'...
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£22,50
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Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226039336, University of Chicago Press, January 2001
1188 pp., 25.4x19 cm
Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's "Worterbu...
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£131,50
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God Owes Us Nothing A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
ISBN: PB: 9780226450537, ISBN: HB: 9780226450513, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
248 pp., 23x15 cm
"God Owes Us Nothing" reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own...
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£17,50
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£36,00
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Guerrero Viejo
ISBN: HB: 9780965526807, University of Chicago Press, January 1998
100 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 49 halftones
Celebrated as a triumphant collaboration between the American and Mexican governments, the damming of the Rio Grande in the early 1950s was expected to prove highly beneficial to the valley inhabitants of both countries. The success of this project,...
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£36,00
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Giving Offense Essays on Censorship
ISBN: PB: 9780226111766, ISBN: HB: 9780226111742, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
297 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm
J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and cen...
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£26,50
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Glossary of Typesetting Terms
ISBN: HB: 9780226183718, University of Chicago Press, January 1995
177 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
"Glossary of Typesetting Terms" is an up-to-date reference book on the craft of typography. It organizes a dictionary and a style guide into a single, one-stop resource. Prepared by a team of leading professionals – a designer, an editor, composito...
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£26,00
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Greek and Egyptian Mythologies
ISBN: PB: 9780226064543, University of Chicago Press, November 1992
294 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout
The seventy-two entries in this volume explore, among other topics, the history, geography, and religion of Greece, Plato's mythology and philosophy, the powers of marriage in Greece, heroes and gods of war in the Greek epic, and origins of mankind i...
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£33,00
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Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226978550, University of Chicago Press, August 1992
490 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this philosophically sophisticated and historically significant work, John H. Zammito reconstructs Kant's composition of The Critique of Judgment and reveals that it underwent three major transformations before publication. He shows that Kant not...
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£32,50
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Guide to Mexican Art From Its Beginnings to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226244211, University of Chicago Press, August 1969
316 pp., 20.2x11.9 cm
"A Guide to Mexican Art", a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's o...
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£28,50
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