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Scraping Away
ISBN: PB: 9781933880785, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, April 2020
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this debut, full-length poetry collection, Fred Shaw offers a deep dive into the cost of service work. Scraping Away is a collection of narrative, sometimes elegiac poems that express the point of view of restaurant workers. Shaw considers the cos...
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£13,00
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Shoddy From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
ISBN: HB: 9780226377759, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 65 halftones
You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material m...
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£20,00
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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain Constructing Scientific Communities
ISBN: HB: 9780226676517, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metro...
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£44,00
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Sciences of the Soul The Early Modern Origins of Psychology
ISBN: PB: 9780226710365, ISBN: HB: 9780226855868, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 tables, 3 halftones, 14 line illus.
"The Sciences of the Soul" is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an instit...
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£32,00
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£56,00
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Scatterplot
ISBN: PB: 9781632430779, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
"Scatterplot" navigates a vast landscape of imagination through variations on being lost and found. David Koehn's investigative journeys allow space for the failures of consciousness and gaps in the knowable as he traverses a sensory terrain through...
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£15,00
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Silver and Information
ISBN: PB: 9780887486456, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
72 pp., 23.4x13.9 cm
The title of "Silver and Information" comes from a photographer's statement, "My work is becoming more and more and more silver and less and less information". This book swings between the poles of aboriginal working-class Philadelphia, where a fathe...
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£14,00
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Shop on Main Street
ISBN: PB: 9788024640228, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
150 pp., 19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, "The Shop on Main Street" is the story that inspired the highly successful Academy Award-winning Czechoslovak film of the same title. Looking...
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£9,00
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Subversive Stages Reflections on Czech Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9788024639536, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The motto "Narod sobe" – "From the Nation to Itself" – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also...
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£20,00
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Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...
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£19,00
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