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Saint Friend
ISBN: PB: 9780887486432, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, January 2020
72 pp., 24.1x13.9 cm
These are the people we are. Saint Friend, carry me when I am tired and carry yourself. Let's keep singing the songs we don't live by let's meet tomorrow. "Saint Friend" is a book of empathy. Its ten lyric poems are troubled with the prospect of sat...
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£13,00
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Signs of the Americas A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
ISBN: PB: 9780226659022, ISBN: HB: 9780226658971, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in "Signs of the Americas". Rather than be...
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£68,00
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Slices and Lumps Division and Aggregation in Law and Life
ISBN: HB: 9780226650265, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings
How things are divided up or pieced together matters. Half a bridge is of no use at all. Conversely, many things would do more good if they could be divided up differently: Perhaps you would prefer a job that involves a third less work and a third le...
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£27,00
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Small Door Set in Concrete One Woman's Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine
ISBN: HB: 9780226666310, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"I was taught from the start not to be silent". For years, renowned activist and scholar Ilana Hammerman has given the world remarkable translations of Kafka. With "A Small Door Set in Concrete", she turns to the actual surreal existence that is life...
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£19,00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer
ISBN: HB: 9780226619293, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables
Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...
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£98,00
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Sovereignty, Inc. Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment
ISBN: PB: 9780226668413, ISBN: HB: 9780226668383, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the co-authors of "Sovereignty, Inc." argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding – s...
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£50,00
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Soviet Signoras Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration
ISBN: PB: 9780226662398, ISBN: HB: 9780226662251, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations...
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£68,00
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Suddenly Diverse How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226675367, ISBN: HB: 9780226675220, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of US school children now qualify for federally subsidized meals, a mark...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Silences
ISBN: PB: 9781632430755, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
Within the visual arts of painting and photography, Martha Ronk finds an undeniable presence lurking: silence. This character slips into pauses, hides between images, and expertly evades the grasp of language. Ronk shows us that what is hidden just o...
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£14,00
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Since Sunday
ISBN: PB: 9781632430731, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
48 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm
What happens when the faith and community we once held close sours into an experience of tragedy? In "Since Sunday", we find a poet who is rebuilding a sense of faith after fleeing religious abuse. Doubt, shame, uncertainty, and the pains of loss cre...
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£11,00
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