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hardcover. Does the ease with which one can now participate in online petitions or conversations about current events seduce some away from civic activities into "slacktivism?" Drawing on a diverse body of theory, from Hannah Arendt to Anthony Appiah, this book offers a range of visions for a political ethics to guide citizens in a digitally connected world. Editor(s): Allen, Danielle S.; Light, Jennifer S. Num Pages: 376 pages, 7 halftones, 7 figures. BIC Classification: JFD; JPH; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226262123
- ISBN
- 9780226262123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 78.35
€ 94.17
€ 78.35
paperback. "A Menorah for Athena" is an extended treatment of Charles Reznikoff's work, in it Stephen Fredman illuminates the relationship of Jewish intellectuals to modernity through a close look at Reznikoff's life and writing. Num Pages: 204 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780226261393
- ISBN
- 9780226261393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.40
€ 36.99
€ 29.40
Paperback. This portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students. It explores the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigates the price students pay for attaining it. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHMP; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226257143
- ISBN
- 9780226257143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 30.98
€ 40.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. Offers a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture. This title includes both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help. Editor(s): Aubry, Timothy Richard; Travis, Trysh. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226250137
- ISBN
- 9780226250137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.51
€ 34.99
€ 27.51
Hardcover. What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? The author explores the complicated, contradictory, and troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 302 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226246062
- ISBN
- 9780226246062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 78.06
€ 94.17
€ 78.06
Hardcover. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, the author mounts an argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating your belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories. Num Pages: 448 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: DSK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226242965
- ISBN
- 9780226242965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.50€ 47.71
€ 56.50
€ 47.71
Paperback. In "Going Home" Ricahrd F. Fenno explores what representation has meant, and means today, to black voters and to the politicians they have elected to office. These analyses will be important for anyone interested in the workings of congress or in black politics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 195 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226241319
- ISBN
- 9780226241319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.32
€ 35.99
€ 28.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press Chicago
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226239576
- ISBN
- 9780226239576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.29
€ 52.99
€ 40.29
Paperback. Tracing Robert Clifton Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, this book illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period, from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control. Num Pages: 444 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226214016
- ISBN
- 9780226214016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.41
€ 32.99
€ 25.41
Paperback. Examines the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. The author reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in Chicago. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 18 halftones, 9 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226212845
- ISBN
- 9780226212845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.51
€ 34.99
€ 27.51
Paperback. Asks whether traditional observations about farm families apply to three hundred Iowa children who grew up with some tie to the land during the agricultural crisis of the 1980s, a time of widespread farm bankruptcies and factory closings. The answer, the authors show, is a resounding yes. Series: The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health & Development, Studies on Successful Adolescent Development. Num Pages: 394 pages, 37 line drawings, 56 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; 3JJPN; JFSP1; JHBK; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226212531
- ISBN
- 9780226212531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.18
€ 41.99
€ 32.18
Paperback. Tells a coming-of-age story that counters the belief that basketball only exploits kids and lures them into following empty dreams - and shows us that by playing ball, some of these young black men have already begun their education even before they get to college. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226211411
- ISBN
- 9780226211411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.01
€ 20.99
€ 18.01
Hardcover. In the most alarmist views, the West's most cherished values - freedom, equality, and tolerance - are said to be endangered by Islam worldwide. This book explores what Islam has become in today's world, with full attention to the multiplication of its meanings and interpretations. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSR2; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 231 x 28. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226206226
- ISBN
- 9780226206226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 77.34
€ 94.17
€ 77.34
Hardcover. The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth - and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. The author demonstrates how intimacies between women became harbingers of the modern, bringing the sapphic into the mainstream of some of the most significant events in Western Europe. Num Pages: 344 pages, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 267 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226187563
- ISBN
- 9780226187563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.53€ 79.20
€ 96.53
€ 79.20
Hardback. What was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184470
- ISBN
- 9780226184470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 77.39
€ 94.17
€ 77.39
Hardcover. The verb "declutter" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. The author finds that both the idea of organization and the role of the clutterologist are deeply ingrained in our culture, and that there is a fine line between clutter and deviance in America. Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCD; JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226171685
- ISBN
- 9780226171685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 77.81
€ 94.17
€ 77.81
Hardcover. Thousands of memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history. Num Pages: 488 pages, 161 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMGD; JFCA; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226159386
- ISBN
- 9780226159386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 77.81
€ 94.17
€ 77.81
paperback. Takes you inside the kitchens and dining rooms of restaurants from David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York to the seasonal, French-inspired cuisine of Alice Waters and Thomas Keller in California to the deconstructed comfort food of Homaro Cantu's Moto in Chicago, to explore the different forms and flavors this casualization is taking. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226154848
- ISBN
- 9780226154848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.92
€ 23.99
€ 18.92
Hardcover. A cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In this book, the author examine one particularly striking group who have taken part in this development. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 halftones, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226152608
- ISBN
- 9780226152608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.17€ 77.34
€ 94.17
€ 77.34
Paperback. A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, the author illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. Num Pages: 344 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSG; KNBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226151595
- ISBN
- 9780226151595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.72
€ 27.99
€ 22.72