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Doing Honest Work in College How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226430744, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Doing Honest Work in College" stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly. These are straightforward concepts, but the abundance of questionable online sources and temptation of a quic...
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£12,00
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How to Write a BA Thesis A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226430911, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 28 halftones, 29 tables
"How to Write a BA Thesis" is the only book that directly addresses the needs of undergraduate students writing a major paper. This book offers step-by-step advice on how to move from early ideas to finished paper. It covers choosing a topic, selecti...
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£18,00
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Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...
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£24,00
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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...
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£25,00
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£68,00
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Shakespeare's Lyric Stage Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780226582542, ISBN: HB: 9780226582405, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm
What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances – which should invite consolation, revelation, an...
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£20,50
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£62,00
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America, Compromised
ISBN: HB: 9780226316536, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 8 halftones, 1 table
"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are". So begins Lawrence Lessig sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it – from the se...
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£18,00
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Irrevocable A Philosophy of Mortality
ISBN: PB: 9780226556932, ISBN: HB: 9780226556765, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones
In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Cite Right A Quick Guide to Citation Styles – MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226431109, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Cite Right" is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who...
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£12,00
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Friending the Past The Sense of History in the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226451954, ISBN: HB: 9780226451817, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 49 halftones
Can today's society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the...
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£25,00
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£83,00
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Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic
ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...
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£22,50
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