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Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
ISBN: HB: 9780226658049, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of the best-known liberal lawyers in the United States. An eminent attorney and general counsel of the ACLU for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against literary and artistic censorship....
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£28,00
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Drop of Treason Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA
ISBN: HB: 9780226356686, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
Philip Agee's story is the stuff of a John le Carre novel – perilous and thrilling adventures around the globe. He joined the CIA as a young idealist, becoming an operations officer in hopes of seeing the world and safeguarding his country. He was th...
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£22,00
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Hadassah An American Story
ISBN: HB: 9781684580378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government...
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£23,00
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Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780226549330, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders", Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil tau...
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£16,00
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Unnatural Selection A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness
ISBN: PB: 9781933880839, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two ecosystems: one was her tangible, adoptive family, the other her birth family, whose mysterious landscape was hidden from her. In this coming-of-age memoir, Ross narrates how in her early twenties,...
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£17,00
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Jean-Pierre Vernant From the Maquis to the Polis
ISBN: PB: 9780984201075, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
82 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007) was one of most important intellectual figures of modern France, well-known for his structuralist approach to Greek myth and tragedy. Taking the form of an interview with the notoriously private French classicist and a...
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£10,00
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Cabin 135 A Memoir of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234208, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which wer...
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£16,00
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Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life
ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...
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£16,00
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Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries
ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...
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£19,95
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£53,95
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Lady Ranelagh The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister
ISBN: HB: 9780226731605, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patro...
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£36,00
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