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God's Rainbow
ISBN: HB: 9788024632919, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
140 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 15 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how we can come to be responsible for crimes we neither directly commit nor have the power to p...
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£16,50
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Grasping Hand "Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
ISBN: PB: 9780226422169, ISBN: HB: 9780226256603, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 10 tables
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for "pu...
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Great Movies IV
ISBN: HB: 9780226403984, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
No film critic has ever been as influential – or as beloved – as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and...
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£20,50
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Growing Each Other Up When Our Children Become Our Teachers
ISBN: HB: 9780226188409, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From growing their children, parents grow themselves, learning the lessons their children teach".Growing up", then, is as much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of childhood. While countless books have been written about the challenges o...
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£20,50
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Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica
ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...
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£26,00
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£67,50
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Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables
In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...
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£20,00
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£52,50
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Gift Expanded Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780990505006, University of Chicago Press, HAU, May 2016
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss' masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss' classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the...
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£13,00
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God Being Nothing Toward a Theogony
ISBN: HB: 9780226359625, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine".God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question": How can th...
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£36,00
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Getting It Published A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (Third Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780226281377, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
For more than a decade, writers have turned to William Germano for his insider's take on navigating the world of scholarly publishing. A professor, author, and thirty-year veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers...
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£48,00
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Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...
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£32,00
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