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Baroque Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024643762, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
330 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 200 colour plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Baroque Prague" is a lavish excursion through Prague's important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the...
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£24,00
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Bound by Creativity How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged
ISBN: PB: 9780226784694, ISBN: HB: 9780226784557, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is in fact deeply social. From those trying to land their first solo show to those with dozens of museum exhibitions, artists...
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£72,00
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Bettering Humanomics A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226765921, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor – not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful y...
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Big Med Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226668079, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures, 3 tables
There is little debate that healthcare in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlo...
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£28,00
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Blue Divide Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781936970728, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
74 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience – whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family's dissonance. Weavin...
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£13,00
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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment
ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...
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£18,00
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£76,00
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Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...
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Between the Sun and Snow Writing at the End of the Century
ISBN: PB: 9781940939384, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2021
225 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 45 halftones
"Entre el sol y la nieve: escritos de fin de siglo / Between the Sun and Snow: Writing at the End of the Century" presents a collection of selected newspaper articles by writer, cultural activist, and educator Myrna Nieves. The articles in this bilin...
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£19,00
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