ledochowicz.com

Contemporary Art

Isa Genzken Sculpture as World Receiver

Lee Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9780226409979, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 68 colour plates, 12 halftones

The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken's tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures, photogr...

HB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Education

MOOCs and Their Afterlives Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education

Losh Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226469454, ISBN: HB: 9780226469317, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

A trio of headlines in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" seem to say it all: in 2013, "A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves"; in 2014, "Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise", and in 2015, "The MOOC Hype Fades". At the beginning of the 2010s, M...

PB:

£28,00

QTY:

HB:

£86,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Philosophy

Evolution

Biological Individuality Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives

Lidgard Scott, Nyhart Lynn K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446455, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 tables

Individuals are things that everybody knows – or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biolog...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Media Studies

Combative Politics The Media and Public Perceptions of Lawmaking

Layton Atkinson Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226441924, ISBN: HB: 9780226441894, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 24 line drawings, 32 tables

From the Affordable Care Act to No Child Left Behind, politicians often face a puzzling problem: although most Americans support the aims and key provisions of these policies, they oppose the bills themselves. How can this be? Why does the American p...

PB:

£20,50

QTY:

HB:

£64,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Medieval

Travel

Medieval Invention of Travel

Legassie Shayne Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226446622, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Middle East

Jerusalem 1900 The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities

Lemire Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226188232, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 table

Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem's Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli and Palestinian residents, with seemingly no end in sight. Today, Jerusalem's endless cycle of riots and arrests appear...

HB:

£34,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Romanesque – Picasso

Lahuerta Juan Jose, Philippot Emilia

ISBN: PB: 9788480432870, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
257 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 170 colour plates, 20 halftones

This beautifully illustrated book, the catalog for an exhibition on view at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and coorganized with the Picasso Museum in Paris, explores important affinities between Picasso and Romanesque art. Using...

PB:

£29,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Law

Evidence of the Law Proving Legal Claims

Lawson Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780226432052, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How does one prove the law? If your neighbor breaks your window, the law regulates how you can show your claim to be true or false; but how do you prove that in breaking your window your neighbor has broken the law? American jurisprudence devotes an...

HB:

£41,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Wittgenstein and Modernism

LeMahieu Michael, Zumhagen-Yekple Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226420400, ISBN: HB: 9780226420370, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry", and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary". But few books have really followed up on these claims...

PB:

£28,00

QTY:

HB:

£79,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Fiction

Echo of Ice Letting Go

LeMay Julie

ISBN: PB: 9781602233119, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay re...

PB:

£11,50

QTY:

add books to the list