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History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226184753, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
1920 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 962 colour plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables
Since its launch in 1987, the "History of Cartography" series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. "Cartography in the European Enlightenment", the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a com...
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£395,00
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How to Lobby Alaska State Government
ISBN: PB: 9781602233959, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lobbying is about getting the right message to the right people in the right form at the right time. Even the most persuasive arguments or most influential groups will come up short if they aren't combined with personal connections and an understandi...
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£19,00
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Harpo Before the Opus
ISBN: PB: 9781632430748, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture. Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility. Here we find Harpo, reaching into the fr...
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£14,00
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HoodWitch
ISBN: PB: 9781946724243, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, October 2019
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. "HoodWitch" tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "somethi...
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£12,00
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Higher and Colder A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration
ISBN: HB: 9780226650883, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, "Higher and Colder" presents the first history of extreme physi...
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£30,00
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Human Voices of Tomorrow's Doctors
ISBN: PB: 9781512603330, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
200 pp., 22.8x13.9 cm
Medical professionals are often viewed as a special breed of stoic figures whose tough grace allows them to stay strong as they confront human frailty and tragedy on a daily basis. "Human" is a new anthology that aims to dispel this unhelpful line of...
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£19,00
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Hunted Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
ISBN: PB: 9780226624655, ISBN: HB: 9780226624518, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"It's not a process", one pastor insisted, "rehabilitation is a miracle". In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they o...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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Heidegger The Question of Being and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226678924, ISBN: HB: 9780226355115, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 tables
Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the Ecole Normale Superieure,...
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£22,00
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£32,00
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How We Became Our Data A Genealogy of the Informational Person
ISBN: PB: 9780226626581, ISBN: HB: 9780226626444, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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henceforce A Travel Poetic
ISBN: PB: 9781632430687, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2019
48 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm, 1 halftone
In "henceforce", Kamden Ishmael Hilliard's poems take us on unimaginable voyages within and beyond the contours of our quotidian experience. This is not simply geographic travel, however: though Hilliard's poems explore air travel, transcontinental l...
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£11,00
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