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Unintentional Accomplice A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility
ISBN: PB: 9781940939230, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Carolyn L. Baker grew up in Southern California during segregation and came of age in the counter-cultural climate of the 1960s. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett Till, sparking an investig...
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£16,00
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Unthought Environments
ISBN: PB: 9780941548755, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, January 2020
215 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 94 colour plates, 7 halftones
"Unthought Environments" brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hid...
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£30,00
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Under Osman's Tree The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
ISBN: PB: 9780226638881, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 tables
Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel.  As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the...
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£27,00
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Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...
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£38,00
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U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780226468334, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 line drawings, 61 tables
Since the late 1950s, the engineering job market in the United States has been fraught with fears of a shortage of engineering skill and talent".U. S. Engineering in a Global Economy" brings clarity to issues of supply and demand in this important ma...
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£97,50
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Uncivil Agreement How Politics Became Our Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226524542, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 line drawings, 15 tables
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...
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Universalism without Uniformity Explorations in Mind and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226501680, ISBN: HB: 9780226501543, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 9 tables
One of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Unlikely Designs
ISBN: PB: 9780226472379, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, "Unlikely Designs" draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charle...
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£13,50
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Uncomfortable Situations Emotion between Science and the Humanities
ISBN: HB: 9780226485034, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 1 line drawing
What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was "happily situated" as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask. Science and the humanities typically offe...
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Unthought The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious
ISBN: PB: 9780226447889, ISBN: HB: 9780226447742, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In "Unthought", she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking – how we use cognitive processes that are inacc...
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£58,00
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