ledochowicz.com

Music

Voice as Something More Essays toward Materiality

Feldman Martha H., Zeitlin Judith T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226647173, ISBN: HB: 9780226656397, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 line drawings,

In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and metaphorical. In "The Voice as Something Mor"e, Martha Feld...

PB:

£28,00

QTY:

HB:

£79,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Asia

Village with My Name A Family History of China's Opening to the World

Tong Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226636955, ISBN: HB: 9780226338866, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace", the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became...

PB:

£14,00

QTY:

HB:

£23,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Women Studies

Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation

Sudarshan Ratna, Nandi Rajib

ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...

HB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Photography

Biography & Memoires

Vivian Maier A Photographer's Life and Afterlife

Bannos Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9780226599236, ISBN: HB: 9780226470757, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to b...

PB:

£15,00

QTY:

HB:

£26,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Literary Criticism

Views from the Inside Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989)

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635927, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fasc...

PB:

£11,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Verner Suomi The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

Lewis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970222, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 30 line drawings

As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educat...

PB:

£23,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Genetics

Visions of Cell Biology Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"

Matlin Karl, Maienschein Jane, Laubichler Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9780226520513, ISBN: HB: 9780226520483, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances – in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation – its origins actually date to the...

PB:

£34,00

QTY:

HB:

£101,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Design

Visualizing Disease The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations

Bertoloni Meli Domenico

ISBN: HB: 9780226110295, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 36 colour plates, 36 halftones

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century. But the visual representation of diseased states followed a very different pattern from anatomy, one we are only now beginning to investigate and u...

HB:

£41,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Goldhill Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

HB:

£28,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Music

Vaudeville Melodies Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929

Gebhardt Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226448695, ISBN: HB: 9780226448558, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today...

PB:

£20,50

QTY:

HB:

£62,00

QTY:

add books to the list