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Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...
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£60,00
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Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks
ISBN: PB: 9781947602847, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful poli...
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£31,00
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Studies in Language and Information
ISBN: PB: 9781684000500, ISBN: HB: 9781684000494, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
489 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book gathers together in one volume many influential papers by renowned philosopher of language John Perry.
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State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family
ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm
Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...
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£21,00
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Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend
ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...
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£16,00
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She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers
ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures
On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...
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£48,00
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Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead
ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...
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£16,00
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£20,50
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Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9781649590084, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
513 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 colour plates, 5 halftones, 42 figures
In the humanities, the field of "social knowledge creation" has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and pe...
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£64,00
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Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
ISBN: PB: 9780226792484, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza'...
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Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones
The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...
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£36,00
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