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State as a Work of Art The Cultural Origins of the Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9780226761961, ISBN: HB: 9780226761954, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
392 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 5 line illus.
The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial n...
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Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones
Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...
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£25,00
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Looking for Los Angeles Architecture, Film, Photography and the Urban Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9780892366163, Getty Publications, March 2006
344 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 24 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Often referred to as the city of the future, Los Angeles is known for its sprawl, its constant change, and its special relationship to the film industry. The twelve contributors to "Looking for Los Angeles" focus on dramatic shifts in the urban lands...
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Observing America's Jews
ISBN: PB: 9781584655640, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2006
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.
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Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
ISBN: HB: 9780226775791, University of Chicago Press, November 1968
890 pp., 26.3x20 cm
The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the...
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