ledochowicz.com

Medieval

Neighboring Faiths Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

Nirenberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226379852, ISBN: HB: 9780226168937, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In "Neighboring Faiths", David Nirenberg examines...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

HB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Blood Runs Green The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

O'Brien Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226379999, ISBN: HB: 9780226248950, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...

PB:

£13,00

QTY:

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

National Duties Custom Houses and the Making of the American State

Rao Gautham

ISBN: HB: 9780226367071, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables

In the wake of the American Revolution, if you had asked a citizen whether his fledgling state would survive more than two centuries, the answer would have been far from confident. The problem, as is so often the case, was money. Left millions of dol...

HB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

America

Lofts of SoHo Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980

Shkuda Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226334189, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 3 tables

American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was...

HB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Telo Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226309699, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn i...

HB:

£44,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Political Science

America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

HB:

£60,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Film Studies

America

Rhapsodes How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226352206, ISBN: HB: 9780226352176, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the...

PB:

£15,00

QTY:

HB:

£42,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Current Affairs

Middle East

Algeria Modern From Opacity to Complexity

Martinez Luis, Boserup Rasmus Alenius

ISBN: HB: 9781849045872, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika's Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who really governs? Who are behind the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to...

HB:

£45,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Islam

Military

Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror

Kilcullen David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045551, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
124 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Blood Year" is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy, by one of its original architects. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and Chief Strategist in the US Stat...

PB:

£9,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Military

Ottoman Culture of Defeat The Balkan Wars and their Aftermath

Ginio Eyal

ISBN: HB: 9781849045414, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
260 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending in ignominy, national catastrophe, and the loss of its remaining provinces in the...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list