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Navigating Normative Orders Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9783593512983, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Normative orders emerge and pollinate everywhere. Whether it be with Kant or among conservatives, posts on the internet, in environmental discourses, or in our raising of our children: Norms populate and spread. This book explains how norms are creat...
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£40,00
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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III
ISBN: PB: 9781649590169, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, February 2021
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 16 halftones, 90 figures, 8 tables, 8 graphs
These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth o...
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£56,00
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Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut / They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234123, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
400 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 halftones
Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected...
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£32,00
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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones
At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....
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£34,00
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Nietzsche's Enlightenment The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
ISBN: PB: 9780226709062, ISBN: HB: 9780226259819, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 23x15 cm
While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche's earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsi...
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£42,00
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NAKED A New Poetry Collection
ISBN: PB: 9781734618105, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2020
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
In his new collection of poetry, Naked, Abiodun Oyewole unveils his thoughts on self-love, forgiveness, lost love, survival, and cultural identity. Known as a founding member of The Last Poets, a spoken word performance group that arose out of the bl...
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£14,00
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Nature's Mirror How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species
ISBN: HB: 9780226730318, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world.   Witne...
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£28,00
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Nadia Boulanger and Her World
ISBN: PB: 9780226750712, ISBN: HB: 9780226750682, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers – especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass – studying...
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£84,00
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Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...
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£36,00
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