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Paperback. With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge - and are able to create conditions for lasting stability - is of utmost importance in international relations. The author draws attention to the critical role played by finance in the emergence of these liberal hegemons. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 line drawing, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPS; KCL; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226767604
ISBN
9780226767604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 312 pages, 48 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226768106
ISBN
9780226768106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.67

Hardback. Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226768762
ISBN
9780226768762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.82
€ 79.86

Paperback. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, this text aims to debunk this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 31 halftones, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 690.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769363
ISBN
9780226769363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. The author draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 halftones, 9 musical examples, 14 line drawings, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AVA; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769592
ISBN
9780226769592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 538 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769622
ISBN
9780226769622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 46.02

Hardback. Uncovers the story of how modernism and network television converged and intertwined in their mutual ascent during the decades of the cold war. This title shows how TV was instrumental in introducing the public to the different trends in art and design. Num Pages: 384 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX; APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769684
ISBN
9780226769684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. This collection of major essays spans Hortense Spiller's work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature. Num Pages: 584 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226769806
ISBN
9780226769806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226771526
ISBN
9780226771526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Is political judgement a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it an art, the product of intuition and feeling? This book shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political judgement. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226771939
ISBN
9780226771939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.57

Paperback. Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were the result of dangerous misunderstandings about the relationship between art and life. Num Pages: 258 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226772240
ISBN
9780226772240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 394 pages, Frontispiece, 312 p. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226772585
ISBN
9780226772585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. "The Smoking Book" is built on the foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; JFFH1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226773339
ISBN
9780226773339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. This text analyzes the notion of "honour". Drawing on information about Western ideas of honour from diverse sources and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society - the Bedouin - the author argues that honour must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774084
ISBN
9780226774084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Discusses the photogram not only as the undertext of screen images but also in its unexpected links to the early modernist writings of James, Conrad, Forster, Joyce and others. It pursues the suppressed photogram as it ripples the narrative surface of several dozen films from Chaplin to Coppola. Num Pages: 398 pages, 344 halftones. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 940.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774121
ISBN
9780226774121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.13

Paperback. Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774923
ISBN
9780226774923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, xxviii, 380 p. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774947
ISBN
9780226774947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.34

Paperback. In this exploration of the concept of formality, or governing by abstraction, Arthur Stinchcombe breathes life into an idea that scholars have all but ignored. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: JH; KJ; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774961
ISBN
9780226774961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.92

Paperback. Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city's highest-crime areas, this work demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 halftones, 5 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226774992
ISBN
9780226774992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Presents the voices of three musicians - queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu - who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Using these three singers as a lens, the author examines Turkey's repressive politics and civil violence as well as its public life. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 halftones, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DVT; AVG; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226775067
ISBN
9780226775067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

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