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Europe Knows Nothing About the Orient A Critical Discourse from the East (1872-1932)

Celik Zeynep

ISBN: PB: 9786057685353, University of Chicago Press, Koc University Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

A century before the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination

Clarke Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780226790107, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A...

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Culture Studies

Museum Miscellany

Cock-Starkey Claire

ISBN: HB: 9781851245116, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
160 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Which are the oldest museums in the world? What is a cabinet of curiosities? Who haunts Hampton Court? What is on the FBI's list of stolen art? "A Museum Miscellany" celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institution...

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Political Science

Leaders People Who Shaped the Last Century

Cooper S. K.

ISBN: HB: 9781921024740, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 29x15 cm

The leaders that are remembered by history both define the world they live in and change that world forever. Whether their leadership is inspirational, innovative, decisive or ultimately destructive, we have a lot to learn from the lives and achievem...

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Culture Studies

Male Order Manning Up in the Modern World

Clune Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781742579610, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, July 2018
160 pp., 29x15 cm, colour illus.

Being a man, right now, is not only tricky but curious. In fact, men seem to be in the midst of a 21st century quandary regarding identity – too hard; too soft. Too emotional; too far removed from feelings. An acerbic and extremely honest portrait o...

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America

Culture Studies

Machines of Youth America's Car Obsession

Cross Gary S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226551135, ISBN: HB: 9780226341644, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

For American teenagers, getting a driver's license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver's license in hand, teens are on the road...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Normality A Critical Genealogy

Cryle Peter, Stephens Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Universalism without Uniformity Explorations in Mind and Culture

Cassaniti Julia L., Menon Usha

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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Europe

Culture Studies

We Are Not Amused Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of "Punch"

Crystal David

ISBN: HB: 9781851244782, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2017
96 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 54 black&white illus.

Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about...

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Culture Studies

Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack

Cappello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...

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