The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture, Paperback - ***

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

Contributor(s): Author: Cynthia EnloeFor over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by ...

Residue: The Persistence of the Real presents recent work by artists whose work seeks to reconsider or redefine perceptions of the real. Produced i...

Reducere. Â Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates o...

Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached.Publisher: Polity Pre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Imogen Sara SmithBuster Keaton is remembered today as one of the most innovative and hilarious comedians of the silent movi...

Reducere. This appealing book treats the genesis of contemporary American taste, tolerance and energy. The Persistence of Liberty illuminates the idealistic ...

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond eco...

Reducere. This is a book about a place that exists in each of our hearts. This is a recipe book for the soul. And just like a treasured book of family recipe...

Reducere. What if we fundamentally misunderstood what it meant to run arts organizations "like a business"? What if our management metaphors actually contrib...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Bear F. (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio ...

DescriptionEarly in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos fo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 16 Line drawings, black and white; 33 Tables, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth J. PfeifferNumber of pages: 246Collection: Medical AnthropologyPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David BillingsDeep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Pa...

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoe...

Reducere. The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Comm...

Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white w...

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Reducere. Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driv...

Reducere. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequal...

Contending that the Modernist project of the long 20th century is approaching exhaustion, with its remaining insights approaching triviality, this ...

Reducere. Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of th...

Reducere. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequal...

From the writings of Fanon and W.E.B. DuBois to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire explores the plight of beleaguered multi-culture and defends it...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 232Collection: Culture & TheoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. Distinguished diplomat Ambassador Wendy Sherman brings readers inside the negotiating room to show how to put diplomatic values like courage, power...

Reducere. The Montana Cree is a study of religion as a sustaining force in American Indian life. On the small Rocky Boy reservation in northern Montana, the ...

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender....

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Kiki GounaridouNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 147 x 222 x 11Cover type: Har...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs an...