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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...
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£36,00
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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables
History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...
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£21,00
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£76,00
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Languages of Scandinavia Seven Sisters of the North
ISBN: PB: 9780226759753, ISBN: HB: 9780226493893, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 tables
From fjords to mountains, schools of herring to herds of reindeer, Scandinavia is rich in astonishing natural beauty. Less well known, however, is that it is also rich in languages. Home to seven languages, Scandinavia has traditionally been understo...
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Letters on Natural Philosophy The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts
ISBN: PB: 9781649590022, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates
In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of Arist...
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£34,00
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Lady Ranelagh The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister
ISBN: HB: 9780226731605, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patro...
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Lamentation for 77,297 Victims
ISBN: PB: 9788024645339, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Smoke from nearby factories shrouds a countryside as flat as a table, a countryside stretching off to infinity. Covering it are the ashes of millions of dead. Scattered throughout are fin...
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Leavetakings Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781602234246, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Leavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About heeding that call? And might wandering serve not onl...
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£14,00
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Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
ISBN: PB: 9780226513706, ISBN: HB: 9780226386218, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongo...
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£17,00
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£22,50
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
ISBN: HB: 9780226739663, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment.  Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity...
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Leonardo Balada A Transatlantic Gaze
ISBN: PB: 9780887486630, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 117 halftones
Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze tells the story of how composer Leonardo Balada journeyed from a childhood and youth overshadowed by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath of "the years of hunger" to a new life as a budding com...
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