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Two Menus
ISBN: HB: 9780226682174, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There are two menus in a Beijing restaurant, Rachel DeWoskin writes in the title poem, "the first of excess / second, scarcity". DeWoskin invites us into moments shaped by dualities, into spaces bordered by the language of her family (English) and th...
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£16,00
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Toddler in Chief What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
ISBN: PB: 9780226714257, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 2 halftones
"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room... And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't" – An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a Ne...
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£12,00
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Trudeau Formula Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent
ISBN: PB: 9781551647487, ISBN: HB: 9781551647500, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, February 2020
280 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
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£16,95
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£45,99
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Truth Has a Different Shape
ISBN: PB: 9781933880761, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A family built, a family lost. "Truth Has a Different Shape" is a story of the power of compassion, of love and loss, revelations and relationship, and the evolution of self. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O'Driscoll was taught that strength...
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£17,00
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Take Nothing
ISBN: PB: 9780887486562, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
The poems of "Take Nothing" are embedded in connections to family and landscape, to memory and possibility. They especially explore and distill those indelible, sometimes small, moments that cumulatively shape the arc of a life. These can be as surpr...
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£13,00
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Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781946724267, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, February 2020
86 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons" imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth's devastation from climate change and natural disaster. As humans begin to colonize the planet, history inevitably repeats itself. Dystopian and ecopoetic,...
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£13,00
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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
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£17,00
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To Love Is to Act Les Miserables and Victor Hugo's Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience
ISBN: PB: 9780997228762, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
"To love is to act" – "Aimer, c'est agir".  These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life's philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people – especially the poor and wretched – drove him not only to wri...
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£24,00
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Torture Letters Reckoning with Police Violence
ISBN: PB: 9780226650098, ISBN: HB: 9780226490533, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens – and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission o...
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£15,00
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£57,00
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Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism
ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones
"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...
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£55,00
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