Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Hardcover - Isabel Wilkerson

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how...

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The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that cap...

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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American...

Everyone's favorite train-hopping juggler and bicycle mechanical genius are back Tag along with Dexter and Stray as they face the perils of the des...

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Contributor(s): Author: Angela D. FriedericiForeword by: Noam ChomskyA comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that...

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour - Alexandre G. Mitchell

What is the secret to humanity's evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect...or something much nicer?Publisher: Oneworld Public...

Reducere. The contemporary and mythological worlds collide in this 4th thrilling Pegasus adventure with a feisty female heroine. A deadly plague has struck O...

DescriptionFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this pr...

A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short s...

DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the h...

Reducere. LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and...

DescriptionYoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to...

Reducere. It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experie...

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DescriptionAcclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottl...

Reducere. This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn...

This book offers a new sort of theory textbook that looks back to trace the development of our understanding of crime and deviance throughout the a...

Reducere. In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

In this revealing study, now available in a revised and expanded new edition, Christopher Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subs...

Reducere. Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"?Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?Th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Keith BickettOn a September night in 1978, Muhammad Ali would attempt to reclaim his title from Leon Spinks in one of t...

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A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have...

A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have...

Reducere. In the early 1960's, two prominent New Testament scholars went head to head over the issue of infant baptism. Here is Jeremias' response to Kurt Al...

A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape paintingPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Paul GalvezI...

DescriptionThe first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum pra...

"Nye at her engaging, insightful best." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Acclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a ...

Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Ang...

Reducere. Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...

Reducere. Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world--practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping m...

About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves co...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kojin KarataniTranslator: Joseph a. MurphyIn Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy--published originally in Japanese and n...

Reducere. This text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students examines the events that led to a 19th-century intellectual revolution: the reinterp...

Reducere. DescriptionIn der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft wird derzeit die Frage nach der lokalen Herkunft des Gottes Yahwe, nach seiner typologischer Eino...

DescriptionIn this volume, which includes a faithful reproduction of Dewanchand Varma's original book on Pranotherapy, the reader can trace one of ...

Most mountains on Earth occur within relatively well-defined, narrow belts separated by wide expanses of much lower-lying ground. Their distributio...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David WhitehouseIllustration(s): Ill.Number of pages: 182Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 154 x 228...

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Reducere. Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whet...

The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 -the ""Orange Revolution"" -were seminal both for...