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Reynard the Fox
ISBN: HB: 9781851245550, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2020
464 pp., 20x14.5 cm
Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How...
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£20,00
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Republic of Color Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America
ISBN: HB: 9780226651729, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 6 halftones,
"The Republic of Color" delves deep into the history of color science in the United States to unearth its origins and examine the scope of its influence on the industrial transformation of turn-of-the-century America.   For a nation in the grip of pr...
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£34,00
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Randomistas How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World
ISBN: HB: 9780300236125, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employ...
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£18,99
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Reading Sounds Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226312781, ISBN: HB: 9780226312644, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 18 tables
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henc...
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£30,00
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£96,00
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Return to Casablanca Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist
ISBN: PB: 9780226292557, ISBN: HB: 9780226292410, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history – from the Jewish...
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£22,00
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£68,00
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Riotous Flesh Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226284620, ISBN: HB: 9780226284590, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death".Riotous Flesh" explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and p...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm
This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...
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£39,00
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Rum Maniacs Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic
ISBN: HB: 9780226099897, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table
Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered...
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£39,00
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Revisiting the Sixties Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade
ISBN: PB: 9783593399904, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
343 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones
The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Summer of Love – the1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in US history. These years launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America", dividing...
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£40,00
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Reproduction by Design Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780226560694, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm
Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a...
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£52,00
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