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A Box of Photographs
Roger GrenierCurrent price €17.15Original price €21.99Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and came...
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A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment
Jean-Luc MarionCurrent price €22.31Original price €23.99A timely new work by one of Frances premier philosophers, A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment offers insight into what catholic truly means. In t...
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A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
Haiyan LeeCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines Chinas unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a re...
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A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
Haiyan LeeCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines Chinas unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a re...
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A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
Mark SeldenCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on Chinas ...
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A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
Edward H MillerCurrent price €26.55Original price €29.50Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)founder of the John Birch Societyis easily one of the most significant architects of our ...
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A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
Edward H MillerCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatisms most insidious seeds. ...
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A Cultural History of Heredity
Hans-Jorg RheinbergerCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of th...
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A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of Us
Todd MayCurrent price €24.17Original price €25.99You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you? ...
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A Field Guide to a New Meta-field: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
The University of Chicago PressCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Barbara Maria Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive scien...
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A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France
Ronald Schechter€47.99In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as terroristic. But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly rece...
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A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 17831867
Max M. EdlingCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Explores the origin and evolution of American public finance and shows how the nations rise to great-power status in the nineteenth century rested ...
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A Historical Atlas of Tibet
Karl E. RyavecCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Cradled among the world's highest mountains - and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities - Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate d...
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A History of America in 100 Maps
Professor and Chair Susan SchultenCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
A Listener''s Guide to Free Improvisation
John CorbettCurrent price €19.39Original price €19.99Improvisation rattles some listeners. Maybe theyre even suspicious of it. John Coltranes saxophonic flights of fancy, Jimi Hendrixs feedback drench...
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A Manual of the Mammalia: An Homage to Lawlor''s handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals
Douglas A KeltCurrent price €59.39Original price €65.99The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. La...
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A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art
Carl EinsteinCurrent price €40.46Original price €46.50The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. On...
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A Naked Singularity
Sergio de la PavaCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99The University of Chicago Press doesn't generally publish new American fiction. But last winter we started hearing from people we trusted about a s...
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A Natural History of Time
Pascal RichetCurrent price €21.35Original price €23.99For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abou...
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A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
David F. LabareeCurrent price €21.39Original price €23.50Read the news about America''s colleges and universities rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and adminis...
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A Political Economy of Justice
The University of Chicago PressCurrent price €91.79Original price €101.99Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable...
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A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti
Andrew PatnerCurrent price €26.68Original price €27.50Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy.--Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by...
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A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity
Peter E. GordonCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99A strikingly original account of Theodor Adornos work as a critique animated by happiness. Gordons confidently gripping and persistently subtle int...
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A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean
Lee CabatinganCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a regio...
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