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No Vacancy Homeless Women in Paradise
ISBN: PB: 9781940939711, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
186 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Homelessness touches every corner of our country, even the most prosperous ones. In "No Vacancy: Homeless Women in Paradise", Michael E. Reid tells the story of more than five hundred women living without shelter in the affluent sea-side communities...
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£15,00
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Neighborhood of Gods The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai
ISBN: PB: 9780226494906, ISBN: HB: 9780226494876, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually named as one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination – as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most people who liv...
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£27,00
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Near/Miss
ISBN: PB: 9780226570693, ISBN: HB: 9780226570723, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry".Near/Miss", Berns...
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£19,00
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Not Bad for Delancey Street The Rise of Billy Rose
ISBN: HB: 9781611688900, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
He was amazing. "A little man with a Napoleonic penchant for the colossal and magnificent, Billy Rose is the country's No. 1 purveyor of mass entertainment", Life magazine announced in 1936. The Times reported that with 1,400 people on his payroll, R...
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£24,00
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Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930
ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates
Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...
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£49,00
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2017 Volume 32
ISBN: HB: 9780226577661, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
496 pp., 23x15 cm
Volume 32 of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual features six theoretical and empirical studies of important issues in contemporary macroeconomics, and a keynote address by former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard. In one study, SeHyoun Ahn, Greg Kapl...
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£67,50
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Natural Resources and the New Frontier Constructing Modern China's Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9780226492292, ISBN: HB: 9780226492155, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 8 tables
China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes...
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£79,00
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Navigating Conflict How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School
ISBN: PB: 9780226523736, ISBN: HB: 9780226538761, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 line drawings, 14 tables
Urban schools are often associated with violence, chaos, and youth aggression. But is this reputation really the whole picture? In "Navigating Conflict", Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno challenge the violence-centered conventional wisdom of urban...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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No Exit Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization
ISBN: PB: 9780226503509, ISBN: HB: 9780226499741, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades – from the end of World War II until the late 1960s – existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsi...
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Normality A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
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