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Theory and Reality An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226618654, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour o...
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Letters from Spain A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court
ISBN: PB: 9781649590107, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
98 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates
Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed by King Louis XIV, and she traveled internationally to accompany her ambassador husband, playing significant diplomatic roles at the court of...
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Performing Human Rights Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
ISBN: PB: 9783035802610, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 30 halftones
The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility, cont...
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Making a Mantra Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
ISBN: PB: 9780226767062, ISBN: HB: 9780226766904, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way in which it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and H...
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£76,00
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Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes
ISBN: PB: 9780226763347, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language? The construction of such subjective representations is known as ve...
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£32,00
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Guitar Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree
ISBN: PB: 9780226763965, ISBN: HB: 9780226763828, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones, 1 table
Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood's unique effect on the instrument's sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warr...
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Train Music Writing / Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9781632430885, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 12 halftones
Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to addr...
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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors Religion and the History of the CIA
ISBN: HB: 9780226767406, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), a...
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What is Contemporary Art?
ISBN: PB: 9783035801453, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
104 pp., 16.9x11 cm, 8 halftones
Art today is often practiced in perfect conformity with the neoliberal zeitgeist, often even denying its own radical potential".What is Contemporary Art?" lucidly examines the relationship between art and politics in our time. Addressing the heart of...
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Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...
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