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DINGBATS Dingbats Wildlife Medium A5 Hardcover Notebook
Book SynopsisNotebook has a hardcover bound with PU leather (100% vegan)
£20.82
DINGBATS Dingbats Wildlife Reporter A6 Hardcover Notebook
Book SynopsisNotebook has a hardcover bound with PU leather (100% vegan)
£15.61
DINGBATS Dingbats Wildlife Medium A5 Hardcover Notebook
Book SynopsisNotebook has a hardcover bound with PU leather (100% vegan)
£20.82
DINGBATS Dingbats D5408G A6 Pocket Lined Wildlife Portrait
Book SynopsisNotebook has a hardcover bound with PU leather (100% vegan)
£15.61
DINGBATS Dingbats D5417O A6 Pocket Squared Wildlife
Book SynopsisNotebook has a hardcover bound with PU leather (100% vegan)
£15.61
RECENT TOYS Huzzle Cast Key II
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£14.81
RECENT TOYS Huzzle Cast Trinity
Book SynopsisA puzzle that interlocks each piece with the two other pieces via an exlusive, organic design. There are numerous possible combinations other than the ones shown here, giving you plenty of room to enjoy some puzzling experimentation.
£15.95
PYRAMID INTERNATIONAL Minecraft Icon Stationery Set
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£6.95
POSH PAWS INTERNATIONAL One Piece 10 Brook Soft Toy
Book SynopsisOne Piece 10 Brook Soft Toy.
£26.09
Click Europe Mideer Puzzles Games Captain Bears Costume Party
Book SynopsisA Mideer 500 piece jigsaw and wall art puzzle. Captain Bears Costume Party puzzle is a 53cm long puzzle that, once completed, can be glazed and hung on the wall. Everything needed comes in the box: 500 tactile puzzle pieces, a framed puzzle board, an illustrated image sheet, decorative rope, glaze, gum tape, a glazing brush, and glazing instructions. Puzzle size: 53cm x 38cm. Suitable for ages 6+.
£13.91
Click Europe Halftoys Ocean Mola
Book SynopsisThe Half Toys Ocean range mixes a fun 3D jigsaw puzzle toy with educational play. Each ocean animal is built with a magnetic body that can be separated into 2 parts to reveal a skeletal puzzle within, helping children learn the basics of anatomy and natural history through play. All Ocean sets come with a fun fact file and its own unique display diorama, so you can build the 3D environment for the half-toy and link them up with other collectible sets in the range. These pocket-sized toys are great gift ideas that offer hours of play or can be enjoyed within a display setting or as a desk toy. Suitable for ages 3+ years.
£15.65
Moleskine Moleskine Sapphire Blue Large Ruled Notebook Soft
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£18.73
Moleskine Moleskine 2024 18Month Weekly Large Hardcover
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£25.91
Moleskine Moleskine 2024 18Month Weekly Pocket Hardcover
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£22.67
Moleskine Moleskine 2025 Year of the Snake 12Month Weekly
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£28.56
Moleskine Moleskine Reef Blue Notebook Large Ruled Soft
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£18.73
POSH PAWS INTERNATIONAL Dragon Ball Super 12 Beerus Soft Toy
Book SynopsisDragon Ball Super 12 Beerus Soft Toy.
£20.87
POSH PAWS INTERNATIONAL Dragon Ball Super 12 Shenron Dragon Soft Toy
Book SynopsisDragon Ball Super 12 Shenron Dragon Soft Toy.
£20.87
Recent Toys Recent Giftware How to become a Gentleman
Book SynopsisBeing a classy, intelligent, and witty man-about-town is much easier than it seems! These beautifully designed 25+ cards are brimming with great advice, tips, and quotes to bring out the gentleman in every man. The How to Become a Gentleman powerpack includes a high-quality black bow tie perfect to pair with an elegant top hat or bowler. Get ready to be the toast of the town! The ideal gift for your friend, father, husband or son.
£14.31
Recent Toys Recent Giftware RG5164 BBQ Guide Orange One Size
Book SynopsisThe coals are ready, everyone's here, now what? The How to Become A BBQ Master powerpack ensures that each cookout will be a roaring success! With 25+ cards on meat and fire mastery, this set includes jokes to chuckle at while flipping burgers. Also included is a grill-safe sponge to keep the BBQ spotless between uses. Who's hungry for knowledge? A great gift for someone who wants to up their BBQ game.
£12.81
Recent Toys Recent Giftware RG5168 Globetrotter Guide Blue
Book SynopsisPassport, check, boarding pass, check, How to become a Globetrotter, check! This powerpack has 25+ cards jampacked with all the tips, tricks, and quotable quotes for safe, comfortable, and smart worldwide travel. Includes an identification holder lanyard to keep your vital documents safe while you visit the four corners of the globe. Make sure to pack this powerpack in your carry-on! The perfect gift for restless wanderers and cautious tourists alike.
£12.81
HarperCollins Publishers Mr Atkinsons Rum Contract The Story of a Tangled
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOWAn extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMANLike many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons' wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans. Drawing on his ancestors' private correspondence, Richard Atkinson pieces together their unsettling story, from the weather-beaten house in Cumbria where they once lived to the ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica. This extraordinarily original work of detective biography is also a uniquely personal account of one of the most disturbing chapters in Britain's colonial past.Trade Review‘Fascinating… Not only a minute examination of a family’s rise and fall, but a ringside view of the Caribbean slave trade and an impeccable guide to the legal and financial world of the Enlightenment… This is an epic tale, but it is moreover an epic piece of research… My guess is that many readers will now find themselves inspired to unlock their own time capsules and slip into another century’ Frances Wilson, Guardian ‘A towering achievement, founded on painstaking research, written with elegance and elan, salted with humour and shot-through with intelligent warmth and compassion’ Monica Ali ‘Enthralling… Full of drama, surprises, twists and turns. There are wars, sudden bankruptcies, doomed love affairs, tragic early deaths and bitter family feuds, all involving a cast of Atkinsons brilliantly brought to life… The surprises continue until the very last page’ Matthew Parker, Literary Review ‘An engaging tour de force of genealogical research… This fascinating personal family story is also the story of a colonial English past of which none of us should be proud, but of which all of us should be aware’ Brian Viner, Daily Mail ‘Remarkable… A three-dimensional portrait, not just of Richard Atkinson MP but his world – nefarious, buccaneering, amoral, but also containing a genuine love story… Family history can become an obsession and often a bore. But in this case it has produced gold. Love, adventure, skulduggery, moral outrage – what a story’ Clive Aslet, The Spectator
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Tequila Made Me Do It
Book Synopsis60 tantalising tequila and mezcal cocktailsTequila and mezcal are tipped to be the hot spirits of the year, and Tequila Made Me Do It offers everything you need to create 60 tantalising cocktails right at home.Following the best-selling Prosecco Made Me Do It and Gin Made Me Do It, this enchantingly illustrated book will introduce you to the incredible world of agave-based cocktails, and showcase the true potential of spicy tequila and smoky mezcal. From the classic margarita and its hibiscus, Cadillac, and tamarind brethren, to a wide range of smoky, citrusy, and delectable cocktails, such as the Oaxacan Dead and Levitation, the recipes in this book are fun to create and even more fun to drink! These 60 delicious cocktail recipes are illustrated with bright and beautiful original artwork by Ruby Taylor, in a book that makes a lovely gift for your friends or yourself!Trade ReviewIncluded in the Sun’s Fabulous magazine’s ‘Lust List’, 12 August 2018
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Life Number Nine
Book SynopsisFrom the critically acclaimed author of THE RULES OF SEEING and WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS, a beautiful, immersive literary love story about missed chances, soulmates and fate.Jem and Mika have never met.Jem and Mika''s lives have intertwined, again and again, across lifetimes.Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and felt that you know them?When perfect strangers Mika and Jem first meet by chance, they recognise each other not from life, but from a shared dream. Both are wary of forming new connections and have their demons to fight: Jem is in recovery from a near-fatal accident, and Mika is undocumented and under scrutiny from the authorities.As their dreams or are they memories? grow in intensity, they are forced to consider the possibility that they have known and loved each other over and over, across the centuries. Will they find happiness together this time?Moving from present-day London through eras and across continents, LIFE NUMBER NINE is an epic literary achievement and a
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Teacher Man
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£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Codeword 14
Book SynopsisChallenge yourself with word and number puzzles200 brand new compelling and addictive word and number puzzles from The Times. Appearing daily in the newspaper, Codeword is the cracking alternative to Su Doku and Crosswords.The concept is simple: each number represents a letter, so, starting with the solved letters, use your logic and vocabulary to reveal more letters, form words, and then crack the code! The most difficult puzzles for top solvers contain no solved letters so you need to employ all your logical strategies to crack those.The Codeword series is so popular because you don't need any prior knowledge, unlike a crossword. You can just pick up a pen and get puzzling. It steadily increases your vocabulary, as the difficulty slowly grows as you progress through the book, and even though you'll be working your brain, it's the perfect way to unwind.
£7.59
HarperCollins Publishers Rum Made Me Do It
Book Synopsis60 Tantalisingly Tropical Cocktails!Rum is on the rise as one of the fastest-growing spirits in the drinks market; the variety of the rums you can buy is growing in number, so much so that you can now find Cachaça, British and even French Caribbean rum, all with deliciously different notes.Known to be one of the sweeter spirits, it is revered in tried-and-tested cocktail classics such as the Mojito, Daiquiri, Pina Colada, and Dark 'n' Stormy, as well as in creative new twists like the Flaming Dr Pepper, Golden Wave and Hot Buttered Rum. And of course some rum punch sharers for those sunny summer gatherings!Here, in one fabulous collection of fruity, smooth and fun recipes, you'll find all the cocktails you need to get that rum cocktail fix!
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers The Coldest Night
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£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers When We Were Young
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HarperCollins Publishers Crochet Amigurumi for the Holidays
£16.96
HarperCollins Publishers The Secretest of Secretisms
£11.69
The University of Chicago Press Above the Fray The Red Cross and the Making of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Above the Fray is a major effort to analyze the development of a distinct humanitarian field animated by the religious worldview of the nineteenth Calvinist milieu of Geneva, which connects a network of philanthropists, pacific activists, and religious actors concerned with addressing human tragedies. In telling the story of the emergence of this institutional field, Dromi innovates by bringing meaning-making into Bourdieusian field analysis in a non-reductivist fashion. Thus, he makes a brilliant contribution to historical sociology, and offers a much-needed addition to the sociological theory of fields. His book will be a crucial point of reference for several fields of research in the years to come."--Michele Lamont, professor of sociology and African and African American studies, Harvard University "Humanitarianism is not just an ethical orientation, but a whole sector of social institutions and practical actions. Dromi's Above the Fray superbly illuminates both the history of this field since the founding of the Red Cross and its increasingly difficult challenges today."--Craig Calhoun, university professor of social sciences, Arizona State University
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Being Somebody and Black Besides An Untold
Book SynopsisAn immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the twentieth century.Trade Review"If his story comes off unremarkable, that’s because he presented himself as unremarkable. Which is an odd thing to write. To say Nesbitt was ordinary is to suggest guts, humility and decency are ordinary." * Chicago Tribune *"Being Somebody and Black Besides is a treasure trove for understanding twentieth-century Black American life, told in direct prose that will appeal to a wide audience. Nesbitt is not a well-known historical figure; rather, he is a member of the rank and file, but his nearly unerring ability to capture the everyday experiences of living while Black is extraordinary, and makes this a must-read book for all readers, both within and beyond academia. In Ralph Ellison’s great novel Invisible Man (1952), the protagonist ends up living underground; Nesbitt refused that route, defying his very invisibility by leaving readers the great gift of this autobiography." * Choice *“A part of a remarkable and accomplished family of Black educators, organizers, and crusaders, Nesbitt led an amazing life as a World War II veteran, civil rights lawyer, Harvard graduate, and official in the Kennedy administration. The story of his life offers a powerful glimpse into the issues of race, politics, and public policy over the course of the twentieth century. A compelling and thought-provoking life story and a wonderful addition to the growing genre of Black biography.” * Barbara Ransby, author of 'Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century' *“A fascinating memoir on par with Richard Wright’s Black Boy/American Hunger. Through Nesbitt’s engaging storytelling and revealing narrative, Being Somebody and Black Besides will remind people of the rich complexity of life in Black America during Nesbitt’s formative years that is seldom told or imagined today.” * Robert Stepto, Yale University *“This is a searing portrait of an ordinary, yet extraordinary, middle-class Black man forced to endure the indignity of having to fight for fair play from people far less ‘civilized’ than he. A keen observer of the ‘ways of white folks,’ Nesbitt was a brilliant, sarcastic, insightful analyst of the color line, even as he willed himself to believe in his country and its ideals. This memoir reminds us how much we owe the early fighters for civil rights, who endured so many insults and injuries as they fought to widen opportunities for Black people and dismantle northern style Jim Crow. Nesbitt’s accounts of racism are unforgettable in their detail, anger, sheer absurdity, and casual cruelty.” * Martha Biondi, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Imani Perry A Note on St. Clair Drake’s “Foreword” Sandra Drake Foreword to the George Nesbitt Manuscript St. Clair Drake A Note on the Manuscript Prexy Nesbitt Preface 1. Our Family’s Great Migration: Growing Up Black in the Shadow of the University 2. A Family Which Stayed Together 3. Learning to Be Somebody 4. The Comfort of My Negroness 5. Going to University: Labor and Learning 6. Town and Gown: The Difficulty of Navigating Two Worlds 7. Lawyer by Day, Redcap at Night: Union Organizing and Rabble Rousing 8. The Army and Its Apartheid: The Racial System in the War Years 9. The Ugly Specter of Race Discrimination 10. Poking at the Good, White Liberals: Discrimination Veiled and Rationalized 11. An Exceptional Family in the Lawndale Ghetto 12. The Future of Our People Postscript Acknowledgments
£18.00
The University of Chicago Press Musics Monisms Disarticulating Modernism
Book SynopsisDaniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one. Trade Review"This is vintage Albright, a work of original, engaging criticism shot through with interpretive flair and sparkling erudition. This is criticism born of boundless sympathy and enthusiasm, not just of deep understanding."-- "Stephen Hinton, Stanford University" "Music's Monisms celebrates the power of music to transcend the oppositions of verbal language and, indeed, of everyday life. Albright presents brilliantly original readings of major works in twentieth-century music. He takes on some of the most imposing figures in music history with a wonderfully humane, and wonderfully personal, touch."-- "Arman Schwartz, King's College London"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Picturing Political Power Images in the Womens
Book SynopsisLange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history.Trade Review"...a digital collection of historical portraits and artifacts that tells a more inclusive story of the women's suffrage movement with a spotlight on the less familiar stories of Black women's activism throughout this period."-- "Forbes" "Lange offers an overdue and compelling account of the visual campaigns disseminated by national suffragists."-- "The Annals of Iowa" "An in-depth look at how American suffragists fought to control their own image in the long battle for the vote and political representation. Long before the pantsuit, American women were fighting to tell their story, their way. Lange's book is a story of historical courage whose ramifications still echo today."--Former US senator Barbara Mikulski, longest-serving woman in congressional history "By considering visual images of women from the 18th to the 20th century, this engaging book is more than just a study of women's suffrage, offering a breadth of coverage with wonderful classroom value. Lange instructs on how to read the visual images that most people barely notice. The book is likely to inspire much classroom discussion and further research."--C. E. Neumann "Choice" "In this richly researched and lavishly illustrated book, Lange argues that the American suffragists were successful in their battle for the vote in part because they used images to transform the public's notion of political womanhood. She takes special care to address how women of color developed activist visual campaigns. Linking power with visibility and weaving history with visual culture, Lange narrates a fascinating take on the history of the Nineteenth Amendment."--Kate Clarke LeMay, National Portrait Gallery "Picturing Political Power cogently delineates the intrinsic role of visual media in the struggle for women's rights. Lange shows how we cannot truly grasp the causes of and conflicts over women's suffrage without addressing its visual record. Sensitive to gender, class, and race, this groundbreaking book demonstrates the importance of rigorous engagement with visual evidence to uncover new insights about the past."--Joshua Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Setting the Standards Chapter 2. Dominant Images of Gender and Power in Antebellum America Chapter 3. Portraits as Politics Chapter 4. A “Fine Looking Body of Women”: Female Political Leaders on the Rise Chapter 5. Competing Visual Campaigns Chapter 6. White Public Mothers and Militant Suffragists Win the Vote Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Educating the Enemy
Book SynopsisCompares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city. Educating the Enemy begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1946 as part of the military program called Operation Paperclip. These German children were bused daily from a military outpost to four El Paso public schools. Though born into a fascist enemy nation, the German children were quickly integrated into the schools and, by proxy, American society. Their rapid assimilation offered evidence that American public schools played a vital role in ensuring the victory of democracy over fascism. Jonna Perrillo not only tells this fascinating story of Cold War educational policy, but she draws an important contrast with another, much more numerous population of children in the El Paso public schools: Mexican Americans. Like everywhere else in theTrade Review“Educating the Enemy presents a meticulously researched argument that offers an original multiracial and multiethnic perspective on the US Southwest told through the schooling experiences of the 150 Paperclip children in El Paso, TX.” -- Yoon Pak, University of Illinois“Educating the Enemy isn’t only a fascinating case study of Operation Paperclip, it’s also a damning condemnation of a racial and educational system in the United States that found more in common between white Americans and former Nazis, than between white Americans and their Mexican American neighbors. It’s a timely contribution to thinking about how we continue to treat Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Latinos in general as dangerous outsiders.” -- Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University"Educating the Enemy is an extraordinary story about the children of Nazi scientists who after the war relocated to the Mexican American city of El Paso. Cold war meets the border. Simply put: This is a remarkable book, meticulously researched, studded with insights about the border and how its bilingual, bicultural world shaped these children. Perrillo constructs a vivid, compelling narrative that shines a rare light on a community long misunderstood. Bravo!" -- Alfredo Corchado, Mexico border correspondent, Dallas Morning NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Fight for Civilization 2. Something New in the Territory: Race, Space, and Schooling in the Borderlands 3. At Home on the Range: Civics and Civilization 4. The Promise and Peril of Bilingualism: Language Learning in El Paso Schools 5. Devoted to the Child: Education and the Politics of Children’s Care Epilogue Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Teaching Expertise in Three Countries Japan
Book SynopsisTrade Review “In Teaching Expertise, Akiko Hayashi offers a culturally complex insight into how teaching expertise manifests in China, Japan, and the United States. Hayashi’s findings about how expertise and experience are affected by larger social forces is critical.” -- Gerald LeTendre, author of Learning to be Adolescent“This fascinating study of how teachers develop their skills combines rich ethnographic detail with sensitive analysis. It will be enlightening for anyone interested in teacher development, as well as education in the countries researched.” -- Peter Cave, author of Schooling Selves"This study provides a deep portrait of teachers' professional development over the course of their careers—what they learn and how they learn it—going beyond the more typical novice-expert single-moment studies and beyond induction studies that end by the third year of teaching. It also makes a notable contribution to comparative studies of pedagogy. It accomplishes both while offering a text readable enough to engage undergraduate education students, or to entice those harried university instructors to enjoy the book with their feet up while discovering a better way to improve teaching than writing ever more exhaustive lecture notes." * Education Review *Table of ContentsPreface Foreword by Joe Tobin 1 Introduction 2 Japan 3 China 4 United States 5 Looking across Three Countries Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£19.80
The University of Chicago Press Oceans under Glass
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Muka uses the tools of both historian and sociologist . . . . following patents, mentions, and citations through scientific and hobbyist literature. She also shadows and interviews practitioners in various aquarium settings to uncover the wide array of contributors to marine-biological knowledge production and to follow that knowledge through the ‘permeable boundaries’ of the aquarium’s various communities. The result provides a fascinating and thoughtful elucidation of the history of aquariums as an environmental technology and of public aquarists as ‘knowledge couriers’ between communities.” * Science *"Despite their familiarity and apparent simplicity, aquariums are complex tools developed through the collaboration of academics, hobbyists, public aquarium employees, and researchers for commercial enterprises. Muka uses the term "tank craft" for the effort of this diverse, diffuse community, where credentials range from graduate degrees to deep personal experience and communication takes many forms, from professional journals to in-person conversations . . . Recommended." * Choice *"An accessible and engaging work, Oceans under Glass offers a valuable contribution to the history of ocean science . . . Muka’s book is an essential resource for anyone interested in how networks of collaboration and communication extend and promote craft knowledge. And it offers a valuable contribution to 'blue humanities' scholarship, exemplifying how an interdisciplinary approach bolsters our understanding of humanity’s ever-changing relationship with the ocean." * Isis *"At long last, a book dedicated to the nonstandard art of tinkering with oceans. Skillfully moving from one tank type to the next, Oceans under Glass traces the multiple networks, disciplines, and methods involved in producing situated knowledges about marine life. No wonder, then, that author Samantha Muka is herself brilliantly adept in the art of tinkering. Engaging a variety of methodologies, from ethnography to archival research, and working across multiple disciplines, including science and technology studies and biological and environmental history, Muka sketches a loving bricolage of tank crafters and their work in shaping future oceans. Kudos to Muka, and kudos also to the University of Chicago Press for putting out a much-needed interdisciplinary series on oceans." -- Irus Braverman, author of Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink“In Oceans under Glass, Muka reveals in vivid and loving detail how the ‘tank craft’ of aquarium keepers has illuminated life under the ocean’s surface, while she also celebrates the diverse network of aquarists, past and present, who have developed that craft. She shows how these little-known technical tinkerers, caregivers to delicate marine organisms, hobbyists, and professional researchers have shared their hard-won fingertip knowledge across social divides in order to make aquariums habitable for their denizens and gain knowledge otherwise inaccessible to us land dwellers. The project innovatively brings together historical, technical, ethnographic, and sociological information and analysis to point to the fundamental importance of aquarium craft to our understanding of life in the ocean, which is ultimately essential to save it from human-caused destruction. The message is important and timely, the book a promising launch for Chicago’s new Oceans in Depthseries.” -- Lynn K. Nyhart, University of Wisconsin–Madison"Samantha Muka's lively and thoughtful account of twentieth-century aquaria teaches us about everything from 'tank craft' maker culture to the politics of ocean simulations. Bring your childhood field trip memories and leave with a richer historical appreciation of the tinkering, the unlikely collaborations, and the artistic and scientific visions and tensions necessary to put marine life convincingly and usefully under glass." -- Karen Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University"In lively prose that shifts fluidly from fieldwork stories to detailed technical descriptions, Muka describes how diverse historical actors have sought to balance the aquarium’s sometimes conflicting purposes as both habitat and visual technology. Throughout the book, Muka argues persuasively that looking carefully at aquariums, rather than simply seeing through them, draws our past and present relationships with the ocean into greater focus." * H-Sci-Med-Tech *"Muka’s analysis of the aquarium offers broad, crucial insights into how models are built and used—issues central not only to the history of science, but also to philosophy and visual studies." * H-Environment *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword: Oceans in Depth Preface 1. Aquarium Craft: Replicating Oceans under Glass 2. Photography Tanks: Viewing Oceans under Glass 3. Kreisel Tanks: Crafting Movement under Glass 4. Reef Tanks: Building Ecosystems under Glass 5. Breeding Tank Systems: Closing the Cycle under Glass Conclusion: “You Are the Ocean”: Scaling Up Oceans under Glass Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Writing Science in Plain English Second Edition
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The University of Chicago Press Bettering Humanomics A New and Old Approach to
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeirdre Nansen McCloskey latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science"Can we have economic thought that focuses on people and tries to understand rather than merely observe? Rejecting contemporary trends, McCloskey paves the way to an economics dedicated to the betterment of human lives." * The Bookseller *“There is no doubting the extraordinary breadth and depth of [McCloskey’s] knowledge... A critique by someone who knows what she’s talking about.” * The Enlightened Economist *“This book presents a series of arguments for improving academic enquiry through the lens of 'humanomics.' For economists, or other academics, who haven’t come across humanomics before, it is in essence a combination of the rigorous tools of economics with more human elements such as the critical perspectives that are often found in the humanities. Pioneers of this approach include 'the father of economics,' Adam Smith, Nobel prizewinner Vernon Smith and experimental economist Bart Wilson. . . McCloskey presents compelling arguments that economic agents are not merely attempting to maximise their utility, but are influenced by other factors such as the power of words.” * Times Higher Education *Best Summer Books of 2021 "What economics needs to fulfil its unparalleled potential as the premier science of human progress, [McCloskey] insists, is the rediscovery of its origins as the discipline that successfully marries the methods of the sciences and the humanities. In Bettering Humanomics, a sparkling cameo of a book, she offers a summary of this, her life-long project. The result is a richly allusive account of what such a combination — 'humanomics', as she calls it — looks like, and why it offers a better guide to understanding where prosperity ultimately comes from and what policymakers can do to help it on its way." * Financial Times *“This new book quite seriously advances the continuing conversation in humanomics. It discovers Adam Smith and resumes a path that McCloskey has so magnificently helped to reinvigorate in the last half century.” -- Vernon Smith, Chapman University and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics“How is economic science going to progress? By embracing ethics, the humanities, and language as part of the tool kit alongside mathematics—and recognizing that economists should never try to be social engineers because they are part of the societies they study. McCloskey makes a compelling case for economics for humans—and offers some hope that the discipline is tilting in that direction.” -- Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge"Provocative, bold, ironic, erudite, and above all, well-written." * Metascience *Table of ContentsPreface Part I. The Proposal Chapter 1. Humanomics and Liberty Promise Better Economic Science Chapter 2. Adam Smith Practiced Humanomics, and So Should We Chapter 3. Economic History Illustrates the Problems with Nonhumanomics Chapter 4. An Economic Science Needs the Humanities Chapter 5. It’s Merely a Matter of Common Sense and Intellectual Free Trade Chapter 6. After All, Sweet Talk Rules a Free Economy Chapter 7. Therefore We Should Walk on Both Feet, Like Ludwig Lachmann Chapter 8. That Is, Economics Needs Theories of Human Minds beyond Behaviorism Part II. The Killer App Chapter 9. The Killer App of Humanomics Is the Evidence That the Great Enrichment Came from Ethics and Rhetoric Chapter 10. The Dignity of Liberalism Did It Chapter 11. Ideas, Not Incentives, Underlie It Chapter 12. Even as to Time and Location Chapter 13. The Word’s the Thing Part III. The Doubts Chapter 14. Doubts by Analytic Philosophers about the Killer App Are Not Persuasive Chapter 15. Nor by Sociologists or Political Philosophers Chapter 16. Nor Even by Economic Historians Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Chicago Press Faith Family and Flag
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University of Chicago Press Decoding the Hand A History of Science Medicine and Magic
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The University of Chicago Press Pat Metheny Stories beyond Words
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University of Chicago Press The Black Tax
Book SynopsisRevealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America's tax regimes. American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the very people who critically need its support. Not only do taxpayers with fewer resourcesless wealth, power, and landpay more than the well-off, but they are forced to fight for their rights within an unjust system that undermines any attempts to improve their position or economic standing. In The Black Tax, Andrew W. Kahrl reveals the shocking history and ruinous consequences of inequitable and predatory tax laws in this countryabove all, widespread and devastating racial dispossession. Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans acquired substantial amounts of property nationwide. But racist practices, obscure processes, and outright theft diminished their holdings and their power. Of these, Kahrl shows, few were more powerful, or more quietly dest
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University of Chicago Press Devotion in Motion
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University of Chicago Press Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone
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The University of Chicago Press Divided Parties Strong Leaders
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The University of Chicago Press Data Equals
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