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Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings
"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...
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Origins
ISBN: PB: 9783037345979, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
272 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm
"Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it". So writes Reiner Schurmann in "Origins", a startlingly personal account of life as a young man from postwar Germany in the 1960s. Schurmann's semi-autobiographical protagonist is incapable of...
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Our Perfect Wild Ray & Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of Far North
ISBN: PB: 9781602232785, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 colour plates, 2 maps
Ray and Barbara Bane worked as teachers in Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, in the early 1960s – but they didn't simply teach the children of their Ia±upiat Eskimo and Koyukon friends and neighbors: they fully embraced their lifestyle. Doing so, they r...
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On the Edge of the Holocaust The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781611688566, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this bold study, Edna Aizenberg offers a much-needed corrective to both Latin American literary scholarship and popular assumptions that the whole of Latin America served as a Nazi refuge both during and after World War II. Analyzing the treatment...
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£32,00
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Ordinary Meaning A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780226304854, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 17 tables
Consider this court case: a defendant has traded a gun for drugs, and there is a criminal sentencing provision that stipulates an enhanced punishment if the defendant "uses" a firearm "during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime". Buying the d...
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Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...
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£44,00
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – February
ISBN: HB: 9780842529402, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, November 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – January
ISBN: HB: 9780842528641, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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O, How the Wheel Becomes It! A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226132792, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic "A Dance to the Music of Time", "O, How the Wheel Becomes It!" fulfills perhaps every author's fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who a...
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Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941
ISBN: PB: 9780226324463, ISBN: HB: 9780226306889, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 11 line drawings
While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember th...
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