Editorial University Of Chicago Press
Mostrando 270 libros encontrados (14 páginas)
-
Architecture of Story
A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-18191-2
EAN 9780226181912
Sin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Rising Ground
A Search for the Spirit of Place
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-226-36609-8
EAN 9780226366098
In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called one of our most thoughtful travel writers, moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landscape around him, and, in particular, by the traces of human history and of the ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-226-35301-2
EAN 9780226353012
When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama's presidency in spite of his administration's considerable efforts to ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-226-34651-9
EAN 9780226346519
The term network is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network's role as a way for people ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Crime Uncovered
Private Investigator
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78320-523-3
EAN 9781783205233
The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets to Agatha Christie's Captain Hastings the genteel companion in greener surrounds the P. I. has taken on any number of guises. In Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator, editors Alistair Rolls and ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Invisible
The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-226-37825-1
EAN 9780226378251
If offered the chance'by cloak, spell, or superpower'to be invisible, who wouldnt want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-32141-7
EAN 9780226321417
We're living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I'm not altogether sure you're fully attuned to it. So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents of his New England city and enjoys their unwavering loyalty in return. But in our age of ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 648 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-32463-0
EAN 9780226324630
Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and adjudication, thus raising ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-32415-9
EAN 9780226324159
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78320-515-8
EAN 9781783205158
Few if any books come close to being as beloved or as ubiquitous as J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Best-sellers for decades, they became even more popular on the heels of Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning film adaptations. And throughout, fans have not only read the books, they've engaged with them, building ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
The First World War
Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 70,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-28428-6
EAN 9780226284286
One hundred years later, the First World War has returned to public consciousness, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Because the most popular cameras of the time were the Vest Pocket Kodak and other crude film cameras, the "look" of that Great War is grainy, ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
The Hidden Wealth of Nations
The Scourge of Tax Havens
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-24542-3
EAN 9780226245423
We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
The Dead Ladies Project
Exiles, Ex-Pats and Ex-Countries
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-226-27845-2
EAN 9780226278452
Jessa Crispin's first book--a work of literary nonfiction about drifters. Crispin's own peregrinations and rootlessness are legendary to the blogger's many fans and readers. As Crispin sees it, the problem with most books about drifters is that they do not understand, or really get at, the longing of someone without a permanent address. Crispin investigates ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 46,30 €
ISBN 978-0-226-18871-3
EAN 9780226188713
Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a vague squiggle or a greyish fleck. This book will change that forever.Viewing these creatures up close for ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 46,80 €
ISBN 978-0-226-25514-9
EAN 9780226255149
Sin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
House of Debt
How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again With a new Afterword
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-0-226-27165-1
EAN 9780226271651
The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession-that the total amount of debt for American households doubled ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Ozone Journal
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-226-20703-2
EAN 9780226207032
"A sequel of sorts to "Ziggurat," published in the Phoenix Poets series in 2010, the title poem from "Ozone Journal" recounts the memory of the speaker's excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a TV journalist crew in 2009. The speaker "dreams back," as it were, to the 1980s, when, ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
-
Wild Hope
On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-03601-4
EAN 9780226036014
Sin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-08194-6
EAN 9780226081946
Sin ejemplares (encargos sólo en librería)
-
What Soldiers Do
Sex and the American GI in World War II France
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-92311-6
EAN 9780226923116
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly-but if you're the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French ...
más informaciónSin ejemplares (se puede encargar)
