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King Salmon Journey
ISBN: PB: 9781602232310, ISBN: HB: 9781602232303, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Two thousand miles is a staggering distance for any kind of journey. But imagine making it not by car or even foot – but by fin. That's what faces Chinook, a female king salmon, as she takes a dramatic trip to safely deliver her eggs. From the Bering...
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Knish In Search of the Jewish Soul Food
ISBN: HB: 9781611683127, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2014
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish. The iconic po...
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Kindly Inquisitors The New Attacks on Free Thought (Expanded Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226145938, University of Chicago Press, January 2014
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where...
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Kurt Schwitters Space, Image, Exile
ISBN: HB: 9780226085180, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 98 halftones
German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theo...
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Kurt Wolff A Portrait in Essays and Letters
ISBN: PB: 9780226104805, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 figures
Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two conti...
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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226017631, ISBN: HB: 9780226017464, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 1 map, 7 halftones
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, kil...
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£78,00
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Kayak Girl
ISBN: PB: 9781602231887, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
32 pp., 25.5x21.6 cm
In "Kayak Girl" a young child learns to cope with serious loss by focusing on something larger than herself. After Jana's mother dies, she becomes withdrawn. Her grandfather, a carver, pays the girl a visit and finds her unresponsive to his care. He...
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Korea A Cartographic History
ISBN: HB: 9780226753645, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 71 colour illus.
The first general history of Korea as seen through maps, "Korea: A Cartographic History" provides a beautifully illustrated introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. John Rennie Short, one of today's most prolific and well-re...
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Kiss My Relics Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
ISBN: HB: 9780226724614, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm
Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of t...
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£37,00
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Knowledge and Representation
ISBN: PB: 9781575866307, ISBN: HB: 9781575866314, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
242 pp., 23x15 cm
This compilation of cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research comprises a survey of recent neuroscientific research on representational systems in animals and humans. Representational systems provide their owners with useful information abou...
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