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Ours to Lose When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
ISBN: PB: 9780226399942, ISBN: HB: 9780226399805, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict – an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan...
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£22,50
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Orchid A Cultural History
ISBN: HB: 9780226376325, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones
At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have carried symbolic weight in countless cultures over time.  The ancient Greeks...
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Old-Time Saloon Not Wet – Not Dry, Just History
ISBN: PB: 9780226412306, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings
Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, "The Old-T...
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Object Lessons The Novel as a Theory of Reference
ISBN: HB: 9780226369655, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
A good novel brings to life not only the nature of its characters, but also the physical presence of all of the things surrounding them, from the smallest trinkets to entire landscapes".Object Lessons" explores this phenomenon and addresses a fundame...
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£28,00
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Osiris, Volume 30 Scientific Masculinities
ISBN: PB: 9780226267616, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
This volume of "Osiris" integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as...
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Of the Nation Born The Bangladesh Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789384757793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, "Of the Nation Born" takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on...
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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang
ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table
For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...
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£63,00
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On the Animation of the Inorganic Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226380193, ISBN: HB: 9780226645681, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
440 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 164 halftones, 10 colour illus.
Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interactin...
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Outside in the Interior An Adventure Guide for Central Alaska, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781602232808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2016
328 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 100 colour plates, 70 maps
With its breathtaking vistas and countless acres of unmarked wilderness, Alaska has long attracted those who are looking for a bit of adventure in their vacations – from visitors who want to climb rugged peaks to those content to push a stroller down...
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On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life Reflections on Rousseau's "Reveries" in Two Books
ISBN: HB: 9780226074030, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
"On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life" presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study...
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