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Improvement by Design The Promise of Better Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226089386, ISBN: HB: 9780226089249, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school system...
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£64,50
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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226052298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 4 tables
"Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog" brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but a...
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£26,00
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Kurt Schwitters Space, Image, Exile
ISBN: HB: 9780226085180, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 colour plates, 98 halftones
German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theo...
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£48,00
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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...
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£39,00
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Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian
ISBN: PB: 9780226096988, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
280 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 26 halftones, 29 line drawings, 10 tables
Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To ans...
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Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226094120, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
328 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 40 halftones
Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualist...
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£34,00
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Secular Powers Humility in Modern Political Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226081298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the ear...
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£35,00
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In Defense of Disciplines Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
ISBN: PB: 9780226069326, ISBN: HB: 9780226069296, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 17 tables
Calls for closer connections among disciplines can be heard throughout the world of scholarly research, from major universities to the National Institutes of Health. In "Defense of Disciplines" presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument sur...
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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...
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£24,00
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£69,00
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Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226925226, ISBN: HB: 9780226925219, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables
Always connect – that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself – those messages t...
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