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L'Affichomania The Passion for French Posters
ISBN: PB: 9780578168029, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
144 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 65 colour plates, 40 halftones
Bright and bold and found everywhere in fin-de-siecle Paris, the poster was a brilliant fusion of art and commerce. New printing methods made it possible to distribute and post vivid full-color prints, spurring both artists and advertisers to take ad...
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£24,50
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Leading with the Brain The 7 Neurobiological Factors to Boost Employee Satisfaction and Business Results
ISBN: PB: 9783593506685, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
207 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
How do business leaders inspire their employees so deeply that employees strive to surpass their own best work, helping managers and their staff to achieve mutual success? Sebastian Purps-Pardigol has figured it out – and the answer starts with the b...
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£36,00
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Legal Epic "Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226435138, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm
The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, "The Legal Epic" is the first book to s...
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Law Beyond the State Pasts and Futures
ISBN: PB: 9783593506500, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Law beyond the State" brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goethe?Universitat Frankfurt. The essays explore Frankfurt's contribution to the development of internatio...
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£33,00
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Learning from Shenzhen China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
ISBN: PB: 9780226401126, ISBN: HB: 9780226401096, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transform...
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£26,50
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£80,00
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Lost Classroom, Lost Community Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America
ISBN: PB: 9780226418438, ISBN: HB: 9780226122007, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 6 line drawings, 14 tables
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools – public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations – have open...
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£20,50
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£39,00
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Landscapes Photographs 1926-1946
ISBN: HB: 9780226399461, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
112 pp., 31.7x26.7 cm, 59 black&white photographs, 1 map
In 1975, German readers were introduced to the "Rheinlandschaften", a collection of stunning images of the Rhineland captured in the first half of the twentieth century by photographer August Sander (1876-1964). This fresh edition, now in English, br...
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£52,00
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Last Lake
ISBN: PB: 9780226417455, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"The evening forgives the alleyway", Reginald Gibbons writes in his tenth book of poems – but such startling simplicities are overwhelmed in us by the everyday and the epochal. Across the great range of Gibbons's emblematic, vividly presented scenes,...
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£15,00
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Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack
ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures
Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...
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Landscapes of Accumulation Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
ISBN: PB: 9780226385068, ISBN: HB: 9780226384900, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 7 tables
Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious...
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£22,00
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£68,00
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