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Nature Remade Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780226783437, ISBN: HB: 9780226783260, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 tables
"Engineering" has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical a...
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£36,00
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£108,00
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Infinite Repertoire On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9780226781020, ISBN: HB: 9780226762845, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how d...
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£84,00
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Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226790862, ISBN: HB: 9780226390086, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate...
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Objects in Air Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
ISBN: HB: 9780226764771, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones
Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we b...
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Poems of Widowhood A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 "Rime"
ISBN: PB: 9781649590145, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
206 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates
Vittoria Colonna's 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of th...
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Ripples of the Universe Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona
ISBN: PB: 9780226778075, ISBN: HB: 9780226777917, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality. Nestled among stunning sandstone formations, Sedona has built an identity completely intertwined with that of the permanent...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Europe Knows Nothing About the Orient A Critical Discourse from the East (1872-1932)
ISBN: PB: 9786057685353, University of Chicago Press, Koc University Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
A century before the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well...
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Defense of Judgment
ISBN: PB: 9780226770154, ISBN: HB: 9780226653969, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful – and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies...
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One Summer Evening at the Falls
ISBN: PB: 9780226737119, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this collection capture the fantastic feeling of falling in love, all while keeping eyes on its lifecycles of crashing aftermaths, lingering regrets, guilt, and renewal. Peter Campion brings us to a series of scenes – on the damp patio,...
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Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and the Gerund Romance Languages versus Czech (A Parallel Corpus-Based Study)
ISBN: PB: 9788024645544, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
163 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages – French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish – and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Cze...
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