Literatura obcojęzyczna The University of Chicago Press

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  • The university of chicago press Worlds before adam

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    The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where...
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  • Storycraft, second edition The university of chicago press

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  • Genealogy of Manners

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    Jorge Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias,...
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  • Tricks of the trade The university of chicago press

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    Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science:...
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  • Screening Modernism

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    Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs such as Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of...
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  • The university of chicago press Secrets of alchemy

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    Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of...
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  • Kindly Inquisitors

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    A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one,...
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  • State of exception The university of chicago press

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    Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite...
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  • The university of chicago press Language play

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    In this text, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how...
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  • The university of chicago press Mies van der rohe

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    Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment...
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  • Likeness and presence The university of chicago press

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    Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence...
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  • Passage to cosmos The university of chicago press

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    Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended...
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  • The university of chicago press After the ice age

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    The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and...
    108,48 zł
  • The university of chicago press Composing music

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    Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in...
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  • The university of chicago press Power of images

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    "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."--E. H. Gombrich, "New York Review of Books"...
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  • The university of chicago press What is a dog?

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    Of the world\'s dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters....
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  • Sinister yogis The university of chicago press

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    Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our...
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  • What Is a Dog?

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    Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters....
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  • Norman Maclean Reader

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    In his eighty-eight years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he...
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  • Bankers and Empire

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    From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often...
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  • Zebra Stripes

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    From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many...
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  • Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment

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  • Forge and the crucible The university of chicago press

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    Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In...
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  • Epochs of Nature

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    Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les poques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first...
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  • The university of chicago press Body in the mind

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    "There are books--few and far between--which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges...
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  • Haunted Monastery

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    The Abbot of a Taoist Monastery is dead after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls...
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  • Poets and murder The university of chicago press

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    Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath...
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  • The university of chicago press Lacquer screen

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    Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously...
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  • Blood of the Lamb

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    With a new Foreword aby Jeffrey Frank The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It...
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  • Lions in the balance The university of chicago press

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    From flat-topped acacia trees to great migrations of wildebeest across an edgeless expanse of grass, the Serengeti is one of the world s most...
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  • The university of chicago press Style and music

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    In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology,...
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  • Sociology of science The university of chicago press

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    The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K....
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  • Projections of Power

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    Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works - a model that allows him to explain why the media cheered American...
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  • The university of chicago press Shell and the kernel

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    Abraham and Torok advocate a form of psychoanalysis that insists on the particularity of any individual's life story, the specificity of texts...
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  • Fatal conceit (paper) The university of chicago press

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    Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism...
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  • Small corner of hell The university of chicago press

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    The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about...
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  • Road to Serfdom

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    Examines the relationship between individual liberty and government authority, and argues that granting government control of the economy leads...
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  • The university of chicago press Analysis of the self

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    Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream...
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  • Emperor's pearl The university of chicago press

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    It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in AD 699: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young...
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  • Creativity on demand The university of chicago press

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    Examines the pervasive expectation of continual "innovation" in the business sector.
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  • Hilma af klint The university of chicago press

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    Notes and Methods presents facsimile reproductions of a wide array of af Klint's early notebooks accompanied aby the first English translation...
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  • Gesture and thought The university of chicago press

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    David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants...
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  • Fazlur rahman - islam The university of chicago press

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    In the new Epilogue, Rahman discusses the rising economic power of the Muslim world and the resulting implicatoins for islamic intellectual,...
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  • More than cool reason The university of chicago press

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    "The authors restore metaphor to our lives żeby showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though...
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  • Thinking About History

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    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study$238 That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History,...
    120,73 zł
  • Politics of Evolution

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    Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre- Darwinian evolutionary ideas...
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  • The university of chicago press Erotic phenomenon

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    While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy...
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  • Aesthetics at large The university of chicago press

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    Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of Aesthetics at Large, is as relevant to the appreciation of...
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  • Rise of the west The university of chicago press

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    "The Rise of the West," winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it,...
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  • Youth without youth The university of chicago press

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    This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed aby Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power...
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  • Sensible Ecstasy

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    "Sensible Ecstasy" investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates...
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  • How "natives" think The university of chicago press

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    When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate...
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  • Alexander von Humboldt

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    Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography, botanical...
    176,80 zł
  • Morality for humans The university of chicago press

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    What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing...
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  • Made in america The university of chicago press

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    Our nation began with the simple phrase "We the People." But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or in 1968, and is there any...
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  • Wounded Storyteller

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    Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective...
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  • Electrodynamics The university of chicago press

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    Practically all of modern physics deals with fields--functions of space (or spacetime) that give the value of a certain quantity, such as the...
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  • Canine confidential The university of chicago press

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    A guide to dog behaviors of all kinds
    140,16 zł
  • The university of chicago press Aristotle's "politics"

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    One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics....
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  • Monkey and the monk The university of chicago press

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    Anthony C. Yu's celebrated translation of "The Journey to the West" reinvigorated one of Chinese literature's most beloved classics for English-speaking...
    87,94 zł
  • Moral politics The university of chicago press

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    When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive...
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  • Year of the Gorilla

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    This seminal work bronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s,...
    182,97 zł
  • Mystical poems of rumi The university of chicago press

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    My verse resembles the bread of Egypt - night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust...
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  • The university of chicago press Yellowstone wolves

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    In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century...
    140,36 zł
  • The university of chicago press Margins of philosophy

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    "In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato,...
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  • Bourgeois equality The university of chicago press

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    There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey...
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  • Craft of Research

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    With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers...
    77,21 zł
  • L david mech - wolves The university of chicago press

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    Discussing all types of wolf in great detail, and with extensive illustrations, this work is an essential guide to wolf ecology, behaviour, physiology...
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  • Economics of attention The university of chicago press

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    If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information,...
    109,29 zł
  • The university of chicago press General relativity

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    "Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others...
    230,74 zł
  • The university of chicago press Phyllostomid bats

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    With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the...
    348,04 zł
  • Great Paleolithic War

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    Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era,...
    259,38 zł
  • Honest Courtesan

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    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to...
    152,10 zł
  • Children's literature The university of chicago press

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    Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Seth Lerer here charts the makings of the Western literary imagination...
    83,79 zł
  • Great movies iii The university of chicago press

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    Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for "The Chicago Sun-Times" for over four decades now, and his biweekly essays on great movies have...
    96,24 zł
  • The university of chicago press Frank lloyd wright

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    The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson and of Kenneth Clark gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan, Frank...
    100,18 zł
  • Show me the bone The university of chicago press

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    Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from...
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  • Not by Genes Alone

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    Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled...
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  • Kamikaze diaries The university of chicago press

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    We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early...
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  • Myself and my aims The university of chicago press

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    Kurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals...
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  • Punitive damages The university of chicago press

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    Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered aby...
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  • The university of chicago press Accidental species

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    The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots...
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  • Pressed for Time

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    The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in...
    118,10 zł
  • Deer and the Tiger

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    "The Deer and the Tiger" is Schaller's detailed account of the ecology and behavior of Bengal tigers and four species of the hoofed mammals on...
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  • The university of chicago press Manual of the mammalia

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    A handbook of mammals that gathers the most up-to-date knowledge of how they are classified and related.
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  • The university of chicago press Cubism reader

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    With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure abstraction....
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  • The university of chicago press Human condition

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    The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics...
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  • The university of chicago press Short stories

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    This volume features 63 short stories spanning five decades including "Girls in their Summer Dresses", "Sailor Off the Bremen" and "The Eighty-Yard...
    98,16 zł
  • Gerhard richter The university of chicago press

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    Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting...
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  • No dig, no fly, no go The university of chicago press

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    Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to...
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  • The university of chicago press Views of nature

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    While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks...
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  • Naked airport The university of chicago press

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    Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal...
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  • The university of chicago press Get the picture

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    How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which...
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  • What do pictures want? The university of chicago press

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    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures...
    150,18 zł
  • The university of chicago press Trilobite book

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    Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from...
    222,84 zł
  • Companion to the iliad The university of chicago press

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    Willcock provides a line-by-line commentary that explains allusions and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected...
    129,84 zł
  • Iliad of Homer

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    "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English,...
    70,53 zł
  • The university of chicago press Cult of the saints

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    In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western...
    104,13 zł
  • Ark and Beyond

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    A state-of-the art analysis of conservation as practiced żeby zoos and aquariums worldwide today.
    221,84 zł
  • Great derangement The university of chicago press

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    Are we deranged$782 The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative...
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  • Giordano bruno The university of chicago press

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    Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography...
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    The University of Chicago Press
    "How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as ""man's best friend"", but what actually drives the things they do?...
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  • The university of chicago press Willow pattern

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    The University of Chicago Press
    Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular...
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  • Magic lantern The university of chicago press

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    The University of Chicago Press
    Ingmar Bergman, creator of such films as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander turns his perceptive filmmaker's eye...
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  • The university of chicago press Birds of paradise

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    The University of Chicago Press
    Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that bronicles the end of the British rule in India with a...
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  • The university of chicago press River runs through it

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    From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by...
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  • The university of chicago press Human capital

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    The University of Chicago Press
    "Human Capital" is Becker's study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment....
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  • Naked singularity The university of chicago press

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    The University of Chicago Press doesn't generally publish new American fiction. But last winter we started hearing from people we trusted about...
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  • On the origin of phyla The university of chicago press

    Zobacz w sklepie On the origin of phyla The university of chicago press
    The University of Chicago Press
    Owing its inspiration and title to "On the Origin of Species", James W. Valentine's ambitious book synthesizes and applies the vast treasury...
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    The University of Chicago Press
    Judge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished...
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  • Into the cool The university of chicago press

    Zobacz w sklepie Into the cool The university of chicago press
    The University of Chicago Press
    Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural...
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  • Alan Bray - Friend

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    The University of Chicago Press
    In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared żeby two...
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  • The university of chicago press Archive fever

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    The University of Chicago Press
    In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology--fruitfully...
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  • Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

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    The University of Chicago Press
    Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human...
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  • Art of Memory

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    The University of Chicago Press
    One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores...
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  • Extinct Madagascar

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    The University of Chicago Press
    The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobad trees and thickets, a dizzying...
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  • The university of chicago press Phantom image

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    The University of Chicago Press
    Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something...
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  • Abductive Analysis

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    The University of Chicago Press
    In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in...
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  • Love stories The university of chicago press

    Zobacz w sklepie Love stories The university of chicago press
    The University of Chicago Press
    In presenting stories of men's intimacies with men during the 19th century--in a world before the words "gay" and "straight" referred to sexuality--Katz...
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  • Capitalism and freedom The university of chicago press

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    The University of Chicago Press
    One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One...
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