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Cesky, Prosim II Czech for Foreigners
ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024621050, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
512 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 90 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! These new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requires no mediating language and thus is id...
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£30,00
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Cesky, Prosim III Czech for Foreigners
ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024635125, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
582 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! These new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requires no mediating language and thus is id...
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Cesky, Prosim: Start Czech for Foreigners
ISBN: PB + CD: 9788024618838, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
204 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 74 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! These new editions of the first universal textbooks for studying Czech as a foreign language employ a strictly communication-based format that requires no mediating language and thus is id...
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£13,99
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Core Europe and Greater Eurasia A Roadmap for the Future
ISBN: PB: 9783593507842, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
226 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables, 2 figures
In today's world, interstate wars are fairly rare – but when they happen, they tend to be more complicated than in the past, combining regional causes with the involvement of external actors as well. This book looks at that problem in the wake of the...
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£28,50
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Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida
ISBN: PB: 9780226565194, ISBN: HB: 9780226390420, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones
"Cultural Graphology" could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertoo...
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£19,00
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£24,00
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Culture and the Course of Human Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226548524, ISBN: HB: 9780226548494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capac...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones
This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...
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£36,00
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Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada
ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones
Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...
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£27,00
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Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today
ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781941792124, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
200 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones, 45 line drawings
The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity".The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity" examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this t...
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£22,50
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