ledochowicz.com

General

Methods for Transdisciplinary Research A Primer for Practice

Bergmann Matthias, Jahn Thomas, Knobloch Tobias, Krohn Wolfgang, Pohl Christian, Schramm Engelbert

ISBN: PB: 9783593396477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
295 pp., 21.5x14 cm

To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has recently come to the forefront. By integrating multiple disciplines as well as the expertise of partners from the societ...

PB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Jewish Studies

Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War

Weiss Susan M., Gross-Horowitz Netty C.

ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...

HB:

£68,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

Reddy William M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706276, ISBN: HB: 9780226706269, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a...

PB:

£37,00

QTY:

HB:

£87,00

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Moral Neoliberal Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

Muehlebach Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226545400, ISBN: HB: 9780226545394, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neol...

PB:

£25,50

QTY:

HB:

£84,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Philosophy

Maimonides and Spinoza Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature

Parens Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226645742, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
240 pp., 25x15 cm

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza – as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization – among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the...

HB:

£37,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Anthropology

America

Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Safier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226733623, ISBN: HB: 9780226733555, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...

PB:

£26,00

QTY:

HB:

£52,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Anthropology

General

Modernity Bluff Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire

Newell Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9780226575209, ISBN: HB: 9780226575193, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...

PB:

£25,50

QTY:

HB:

£84,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

My Father's Name A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War

Jackson Lawrence P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226389493, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 45 halftones

Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather's old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs".My Father's Nam...

HB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

Mark Rothko A Biography

Breslin James E. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074061, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
707 pp., 23.8x16.6 cm, 52 halftones, 21 colour illus.

A book of heroic dimensions, this is the first full-length biography of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century – a man as fascinating, difficult, and compelling as the paintings he produced. Drawing on exclusive access to Mark Rothko's...

PB:

£26,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Political Science

Literary Criticism

Mosaic Constitution Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton

Hammill Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780226315423, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in "The Mosaic Constitution", arguing that Moses's constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central...

HB:

£47,00

QTY:

add books to the list