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Henry David Thoreau A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226599373, ISBN: HB: 9780226344690, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
640 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live". That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226599717, ISBN: HB: 9780226444185, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates
Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs – they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishin...
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Hearing Beethoven A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
ISBN: HB: 9780226429755, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an...
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Human Condition Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226586601, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations – from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking origin...
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Helmholtz A Life in Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226481142, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
944 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 halftones
Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, ch...
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£41,00
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Hilma af Klint Notes and Methods
ISBN: HB: 9780226591933, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
288 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 300 colour plates
At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondr...
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Home for Surrealism
ISBN: HB: 9781891925498, University of Chicago Press, Arts Club of Chicago, August 2018
136 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 40 colour plates, 28 figures
Chicago has for decades years been one of the most prominent cities where European surrealism is avidly collected and displayed. However, there has yet to be a scholarly exhibition and catalogue that addresses the local manifestations of this interna...
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Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
ISBN: PB: 9780226556598, ISBN: HB: 9780226556451, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In "The Human B...
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High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences
ISBN: HB: 9780226525525, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U. S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect e...
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Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780226556000, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few economists can claim the influence – or fame – of F. A. Hayek. Winner of the Nobel Prize, Hayek was one of the most consequential thinkers of the twentieth century, his views on the free market echoed by such major figures as Ronald Reagan and Ma...
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