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New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...
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£32,00
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Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm
Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...
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£51,00
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Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones
French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...
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£65,00
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Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel A Challenge to Collectivism
ISBN: PB: 9781611680812, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this sharply argued volume, Orit Rozin reveals the flaws in the conventional account of Israeli society in the 1950s, which portrayed the Israeli public as committed to a collectivist ideology. In fact, major sectors of Israeli society espoused in...
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£28,00
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River Jordan The Mythology of a Dividing Line
ISBN: HB: 9780226319575, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studi...
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£39,00
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Israel, Jordan, and Palestine The Two-State Imperative
ISBN: PB: 9781611680393, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and two-state options and explores why a two-state solution has failed...
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£28,00
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Jews and Race Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940
ISBN: PB: 9781584657170, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet many Jews did take up racial discourse and used it to analyze Judaism...
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£23,00
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Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World
ISBN: HB: 9780226014746, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 2 line illus.
Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Eur...
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£22,50
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I Swear I Saw This Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
ISBN: PB: 9780226789835, ISBN: HB: 9780226789828, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
176 pp., 22x14 cm, 30 halftones
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 – as well as its capti...
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£18,00
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£48,00
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Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions
ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...
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£30,00
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