art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
ISBN: PB: 9780226321424, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones
"How do we think?" N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition h...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
Touching Photographs
ISBN: PB: 9780226626468, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 84 halftones, 37 colour illus.
Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to "touch" us t...
PB:
£37,00
QTY:
Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300158649, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's ident...
HB:
£29,00
QTY:
Drop Dead Gorgeous Representations of Corpses in American TV Shows
ISBN: PB: 9783593395074, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
267 pp., 22x14 cm, 60 colour illus.
Previously only ever seen, briefly, at the scene of their demise, corpses have become a central part of many popular American television shows in the twenty-first century. From "CSI" to "Six Feet Under", extended portrayals of dead bodies – in the mo...
PB:
£37,00
QTY:
Human Rights In Camera
ISBN: PB: 9780226762760, ISBN: HB: 9780226762753, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones
From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt's furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
HB:
£61,00
QTY:
What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.
The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£79,00
QTY:
Field Guide to a New Meta-Field Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
ISBN: PB: 9780226770550, ISBN: HB: 9780226770543, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 80 halftones
Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£84,00
QTY:
Selling Fear Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion
ISBN: PB: 9780226567198, ISBN: HB: 9780226567181, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
264 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 50 line illus.
While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, "Selling Fear" is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism – and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administra...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
HB:
£67,00
QTY:
No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones
In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...
PB:
£22,50
QTY:
Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency
ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm
It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...
PB:
£9,99
QTY: