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Well at Morning Selected Poems, 1925-1971
ISBN: HB: 9788024634258, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
90 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 25 colour plates, 5 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Springtide" A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The c...
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£21,00
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Ways of Baloma Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands
ISBN: PB: 9780997367560, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2017
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings
Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procr...
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Writing Abroad A Guide for Travelers
ISBN: PB: 9780226444499, ISBN: HB: 9780226444352, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Tell me all about your trip!" It's a request that follows travelers as they head out into the world, and one of the first things they hear when they return. When we leave our homes to explore the wider world, we feel compelled to capture the experie...
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£17,00
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Warhol's Working Class Pop Art and Egalitarianism
ISBN: HB: 9780226347776, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 51 halftones
This book explores Andy Warhol's creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, as neoliberalism perpetuated the idea that fixed classes were a mirage and status an individual achievement, Warhol's work appropriated images, techniques, and...
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£30,00
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Who Reads Poetry 50 Views from "Poetry" Magazine
ISBN: HB: 9780226504766, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map
Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, "Poetry" magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here", which has invited readers "from outside the...
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£18,00
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What Editors Do The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
ISBN: PB: 9780226299976, ISBN: HB: 9780226299839, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly unders...
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£56,00
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Writing the World of Policing The Difference Ethnography Makes
ISBN: PB: 9780226497648, ISBN: HB: 9780226497501, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research".Writing the World of Policing" brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforc...
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£67,50
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Write Your Way In Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780226383897, ISBN: HB: 9780226383750, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
164 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Writing, for most of us, is bound up with anxiety. It's even worse when it feels like your whole future – or at least where you'll spend the next four years in college – is on the line. It's easy to understand why so many high school seniors put off...
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What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez? The American Revolution in Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226480817, ISBN: HB: 9780226480787, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to...
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Calvin's Exegesis of Job from Medieval and Modern Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226529240, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through countless retellings, from the Talmud to Archibald MacLeish and since, the story of Job has become a fixture in the cultural imagination of the West. In this study, Susan E. Schreiner analyzes interpretations of the Book of Job by Gregory the...
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