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Observer's Guide to Clouds and Weather A Northeastern Primer on Prediction
ISBN: PB: 9781935704584, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 10 halftones, 10 line drawings
Today, most people look down when they want to check the weather, peeking at cell phones or popping open a browser, instead of looking up at one of the most accessible weather predictors of all the sky. Knowing what the atmosphere has in store withou...
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£22,50
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Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
ISBN: HB: 9780226186139, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In "The Other Renaissance", Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since:...
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£36,00
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Once Upon a Life Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9789381017982, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
248 pp., 19.8x12.7 cm
Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Tesmula Ao lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young. Left to fend for themselves, she and her five siblings ran wild, skipping school and wandering the streets. But when the authorities...
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£14,50
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On Benefits
ISBN: PB: 9780226212227, ISBN: HB: 9780226748405, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...
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£20,50
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£47,00
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Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism On Open Form Architecture, Art and Didactics
ISBN: PB: 9788364177057, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, June 2014
350 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 100 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Following an international conference organized at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2013, "Oskar Hansen – Opening Modernism" analyzes diverse aspects of the architectural, theoretical, and didactical oeuvre of Oskar Han...
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£22,00
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One Hour in Paris A True Story of Rape and Recovery
ISBN: HB: 9780226073705, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape".One Hour in Paris" takes the reader on a harrowing yet inspi...
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£15,00
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Only Woman in the Room A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226132518, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution".The Only Woman in the Room" chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitu...
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£13,00
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Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones
Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...
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£30,00
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On the Run Fugitive Life in an American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226136714, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillanc...
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£20,00
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Oldest Living Things in World
ISBN: HB: 9780226057507, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
170 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour plates, 5 halftones
"The Oldest Living Things in the World" is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph...
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£45,00
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