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Khanty People of the Taiga Survivng the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9781602231245, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2011
496 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 15 figures, 80 halftones
Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the...
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£30,00
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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226289540, ISBN: HB: 9780226289533, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With "K...
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£13,50
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£35,50
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Knowing Nature Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226301419, ISBN: HB: 9780226301402, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 tables, 22 halftones, 8 line illus.
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives – one focusing on the politics of resource access and the o...
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£37,00
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£100,00
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Kandik Map
ISBN: PB: 9781602230422, ISBN: HB: 9781602230323, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind th...
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£15,00
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£28,00
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Kant and Phenomenology
ISBN: HB: 9780226723402, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
264 pp., 23x15 cm
Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century – and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of importan...
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£43,50
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Kosher Baker Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy
ISBN: HB: 9781584658351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2010
348 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Producing flavorful and appealing kosher desserts has been a challenge in Jewish households throughout the ages. Without access to butter, cream, milk, cheese, yogurt, or other dairy products, creating a tasty and memorable dessert for family and fri...
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£24,00
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Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles
ISBN: PB: 9780226768137, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
416 pp., 24x15.5 cm, 220 music examples
Interest in the authentic performance of early music has grown dramatically in recent years, and scholarly investigation has particularly benefited the study of keyboard music of the classical period. In this landmark publication, the most comprehens...
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£47,00
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Katharina Grosse Atoms Inside Balloons
ISBN: PB: 9780941548533, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2009
256 pp., 20.9x16.5 cm, 111 colour plates
Katharina Grosse's painting practice is a phoenix from the ashes of late Modernism, appending themselves to the Greenbergian cul de sac in an uncanny manner. Since 1998 Grosse has been using a compressed-air spray gun to apply garish swaths and splas...
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£24,00
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Knowledge Most Worth Having
ISBN: PB: 9780226065762, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
226 pp., 23x15 cm
"The Knowledge Most Worth Having" represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago – faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of kno...
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£22,50
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Kabbalah and Art
ISBN: PB: 9781584652250, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2002
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah and the correlation between art and this mystic...
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£20,00
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