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Bettering Humanomics A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226765921, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor – not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful y...
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£24,00
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Blue Divide Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781936970728, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
74 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience – whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weavin...
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£13,00
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Artist as Author Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
ISBN: HB: 9780226752952, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones
With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used...
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£36,00
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Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016 Useful Recollections Part III
ISBN: PB: 9788024645056, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
540 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Finnish scholar Kaarle Nordenstreng provides a unique account of the Prague-based International Organization of Journalists, a group that was at one time the world's largest...
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£20,00
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Keats's Odes A Lover's Discourse
ISBN: HB: 9780226762678, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over – like this world, and some of the people in it". In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them – "Ode...
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£16,00
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Between the Sun and Snow Writing at the End of the Century
ISBN: PB: 9781940939384, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2021
225 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 45 halftones
"Entre el sol y la nieve: escritos de fin de siglo / Between the Sun and Snow: Writing at the End of the Century" presents a collection of selected newspaper articles by writer, cultural activist, and educator Myrna Nieves. The articles in this bilin...
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£19,00
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
ISBN: HB: 9780226739663, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment.  Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity...
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Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United States, 1932–1972, Volume 1
ISBN: HB: 9780226683775, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
784 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 2 tables
Milton Friedman is widely recognized as one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. Yet no previous study has distilled Friedman's vast body of writings into an authoritative account of his research, his policy views, and his int...
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Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United States, 1932–1972, Volume 2
ISBN: HB: 9780226684895, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
640 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 1 table
Milton Friedman is widely recognized as one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. Yet no previous study has distilled Friedman's vast body of writings into an authoritative account of his research, his policy views, and his int...
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Alaska Native Games and How to Play Them
ISBN: PB: 9781602234185, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
The athletes of the Alaska Native games aren't just returning to their roots. They've never left them. In this beautifully illustrated book, readers learn the history of twenty-five Native games that have been handed down through generations, how eac...
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£16,00
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