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Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir
ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...
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£15,00
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Mythology of Forms Selected Writings on Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226464138, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 78 halftones
The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors...
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£38,00
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Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"
ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings
The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...
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Michelangelo's Painting Selected Essays
ISBN: HB: 9780226482262, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 124 colour plates, 122 halftones
Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemp...
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£49,00
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Mother of Orphans The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man's Widow
ISBN: PB: 9781940939780, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Mother of Orphans" is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, A...
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£16,00
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mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780997228755, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against t...
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Mythology in Our Language Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
ISBN: PB: 9780990505068, University of Chicago Press, HAU, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous "Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough", published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact – continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology's theoretical terms,...
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Make Yourselves Gods Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
ISBN: PB: 9780226474335, ISBN: HB: 9780226474168, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexually, even racially––by the extravagances of belief they called "religion". "Make Yourselves Gods" of...
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£70,00
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Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth
ISBN: HB: 9780226457635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables
Moses Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation – i...
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£42,00
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Making of an Ecologist My Career in Alaska Wildlife Management and Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781602233911, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
544 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 129 halftones
This is an innovative and collaborative life history of one of Alaska's pioneering wildlife biologists. David R. Klein has been a leader in promoting habitat studies across wildlife research in Alaska, and this is his first-hand account of how scienc...
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