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Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm
"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...
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£24,00
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Gay Shame
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780226314389, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones
Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, "gay pride" has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force behind the emergence of the field of lesbian and gay studies. But has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the...
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£26,50
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Ensuring Corporate Misconduct How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation
ISBN: HB: 9780226035154, University of Chicago Press, January 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line illus.
Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illega...
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£47,00
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Eloquent Science A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker and Scientist
ISBN: PB: 9781878220912, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2009
448 pp., 23x17.8 cm, 5 halftones, 20 line drawings, 10 tables
"Eloquent Science" evolved from a workshop aimed at offering atmospheric science students formal guidance in communications, tailored for their eventual scientific careers. Drawing on advice from over twenty books and hundreds of other sources, this...
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£34,00
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Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation
ISBN: HB: 9781584657958, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2009
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. For conservative groups this has been a negative association: the perceived breakdown of traditional norms was blamed on Jewish influenc...
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£44,00
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Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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Art-Nouveau Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024613468, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2009
135 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1991, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...
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£20,00
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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships
ISBN: HB: 9780226121857, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
232 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 120 line illus.
Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. T...
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£19,00
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Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament
ISBN: HB: 9780226136158, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 line drawing
Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of New Testament Greek, is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature". With more than a quarter of a...
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£47,50
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Heartland
ISBN: PB: 9780935573473, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, November 2009
176 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 90 colour plates
Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...
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£22,50
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