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Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution. Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University, Hardback - Diane P. Koenker

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Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance, Hardcover - Victor McFarland

943,99 RON

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victo...

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The Mozi: A Complete Translation, Hardcover - Ian Johnston

899,99 RON 962,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Mozi is a key philosophical work written by a major social and political thinker of the fifth century B.C.E. It is one of the few te...

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Buddhism and Medicine. An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources, Hardback - ***

899,99 RON

A companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conve...

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Rural Poverty in the United States, Hardback - ***

868,99 RON

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of p...

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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Hardcover - Shennette Garrett-Scott

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Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on F...

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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii. Life beyond Settler Colonialism, Hardback - Joseph Weiss

863,99 RON

Countering colonial ideas about Indigenous peoples being frozen in time and without a future, this provocative book explores the ways in which memb...

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Python for MBAs, Hardback - Daniel Guetta

837,99 RON

This book is an introduction to programming with Python for MBA students and others in business positions who need a crash course. Beginning with f...

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Ruling Out Art. Media Art Meets Law in Ontario's Censor Wars, Paperback - Taryn Sirove

806,99 RON

This fascinating account of Ontario's 1980s' censor wars shows that when art intersects with law, artists have the power to transform the law, and ...

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To Be Equals in Our Own Country. Women and the Vote in Quebec, Paperback - Denyse Baillargeon

806,99 RON

To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this funda...

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Radiation Nation. Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, Hardback - Natasha Zaretsky

775,99 RON

On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant. In this innovative study, Nata...

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Changing Cultures in Congress. From Fair Play to Power Plays, Hardback - Professor Donald R. Wolfensberger

775,99 RON

The United States Congress has been described as dysfunctional, gridlocked, polarized, hyperpartisan, chaotic, and do-nothing. In Changing Cultures...

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All the Nations Under Heaven. Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised Edition, Hardback - Robert Snyder

775,99 RON

All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York Cit...

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Dynamic Frame. Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood, Hardback - Patrick Keating

775,99 RON

Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style...

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What China and India Once Were. The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future, Hardback - ***

775,99 RON

This book seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their long histories. Using new sources, makin...

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Red China's Green Revolution. Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune, Hardback - Joshua Eisenman

775,99 RON

China's dismantling of the Mao-era commune system under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment. J...

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Green Marble. Earth System Science and Global Sustainability, Hardback - David Turner

775,99 RON

In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research from earth sys...

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Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults. Aging in Context, Hardback - Noelle Fields

775,99 RON

As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services have risen up to provide care. This book ...

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America's Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy, Hardcover - John Dewey

763,00 RON

John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. A prolific and influential writer for both scholarly and general audiences, he stands out for...

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Dinosaurs: The Textbook, Paperback - Spencer Lucas

756,99 RON 809,99 RON

Reducere. Geared towards a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook, sixth edition, is a concise and lucid presentation of the biological and geolo...

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Sexuality. The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures, Hardback - Michel Foucault

729,99 RON

Michel Foucault's interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer...

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New NDP. Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing, Hardback - David McGrane

727,99 RON

The New NDP traces the tumultuous shift in federal New Democratic Party's ideology and campaigning techniques in the opening decades of the twenty-...

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New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide, Hardback - Law Commission of Canada

705,99 RON

Part of a series designed to explore the role of law in structuring human relationships, this collection of essays re-evaluates the public-private ...

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The Wuhan Lockdown, Hardback - ***

685,99 RON

This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6, 000 diaries, ...

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Political Categories. Thinking Beyond Concepts, Hardback - Michael Marder

682,99 RON

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms "categorial thinking." Under this lens, the poli...

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Postmodern Social Work. Reflective Practice and Education, Hardback - Ken Moffatt

682,99 RON

Ken Moffatt turns to postmodern philosophy's grappling with late capitalism and the omnipresence of technology in order to develop a new approach t...

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Cinema in the Digital Age, Hardback - Nicholas Rombes

682,99 RON

This updated edition of Cinema in the Digital Age takes a fresh look at the state of digital cinema. It pays special attention to the ways in which...

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America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, Hardcover - Warren I. Cohen

682,99 RON

America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated rel...

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Co-operative Canada. Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses, Hardback - ***

675,99 RON

A comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.Publisher: University of...

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Generation Gap. Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, Hardback - Kevin Munger

669,99 RON

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

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Varieties of Temporal Experience. Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time, Hardback - Professor Michael D. Jackson

666,99 RON

Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural repre...

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Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present, Hardcover - Thomas Cronin

659,99 RON

DescriptionThe field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in n...

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Culture and the Soldier. Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements, Hardback - H. Christian Breede

658,99 RON

Culture and the Soldier offers a long-overdue examination of how culture - defined as reproduced identities, values, and norms - both shapes the mi...

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Rethinking the Spectacle. Guy Debord, Radical Democracy, and the Digital Age, Hardback - Devin Penner

658,99 RON

Drawing on radical democratic theory and the ideas of political theorist Guy Debord, Rethinking the Spectacle examines the tension between spectacl...

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Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times, Hardback - ***

658,99 RON

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism - as both an economic project and a broader political approach - h...

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Seeking the Court's Advice. The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power, Hardback - Kate Puddister

658,99 RON

The first comprehensive analysis of the Canadian reference power, Seeking the Court's Advice examines how policy makers use the courts strategicall...

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Disability Injustice. Confronting Criminalization in Canada, Hardback - ***

639,99 RON

In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada.Publish...

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The Heart of Toronto. Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street, Hardback - Daniel Ross

639,99 RON

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

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The Wrong Carlos. Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution, Hardback - Daniel Zharkovsky

638,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Daniel ZharkovskyIllustration(s): B&W Photos: 99, Number of pages: 448Publication date: 2014Dimensio...

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Nothing to Write Home About. British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia, Hardback - Laura Ishiguro

632,99 RON

The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-impe...

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Beyond Accommodation. Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians, Hardback - Lori G. Beaman

632,99 RON

By showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the r...

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Changing Neighbourhoods. Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities, Hardback - ***

632,99 RON

Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, ident...

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Military Education and the British Empire, 1815-1949, Hardback - ***

632,99 RON

Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

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Assembling Unity. Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Hardback - Sarah A. Nickel

632,99 RON

Assembling Unity traces the history of pan-Indigenous unity in British Columbia through political negotiations, gendered activism, and the balance ...

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Last Suffragist Standing. The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson, Hardback - Veronica Strong-Boag

632,99 RON

The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician and an illuminating work on the history o...

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Red Light Labour. Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance, Hardback - ***

632,99 RON

Red Light Labour, the first book to examine sex work policy and advocacy since Canada v. Bedford, showcases the perspectives of sex workers and act...

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Supervision in Social Work, 5th Edition, Hardcover - Alfred Kadushin

628,99 RON

First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the...

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Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Hardcover - Micah Rajunov

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Reducere. DescriptionWhat happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a for...

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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, Hardcover - Wendy Brown

617,99 RON 661,99 RON

Reducere. Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. I...

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When the Garden Isn't Eden. More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life, Hardback - Linda Kanefield

609,99 RON

Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness...

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Anxious Cinephilia. Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, Hardback - Sarah Keller

604,99 RON

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." Sar...

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Trans-Pacific Mobilities. The Chinese and Canada, Hardback - ***

604,99 RON

As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and...

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Humanist Reason. A History. An Argument. A Plan, Hardback - Eric Hayot

573,99 RON

Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new visi...

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Volume 1: Prison Notebooks, Paperback - Antonio Gramsci

573,99 RON

Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Ba...

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The Values in Numbers. Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age, Hardback - Hoyt Long

573,99 RON

Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, an...

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Politics Recovered. Realist Thought in Theory and Practice, Hardback - ***

573,99 RON

Politics Recovered brings together prominent scholars to develop the idea of what it might mean to theorize politics "realistically." By exploring ...

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Gastronativism. Food, Identity, Politics, Hardback - ***

559,99 RON

Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of "gastronativism, " the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a co...

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Philosophy of the Insect, Hardback - Jean-Marc Drouin

542,99 RON

The philosopher and historian of science Jean-Marc Drouin contends that insects pose a fundamental challenge to philosophy. Exploring the questions...

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Literary Information in China. A History, Hardback - ***

542,99 RON

"Information" has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital ...

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Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age, Hardcover - Jessica Pressman

542,99 RON

Twenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, books continue to resurf...

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Political Economy of Resource Regulation. An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015, Hardback - ***

530,99 RON

This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.

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Making the Case. 2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools, Hardback - Paul T. Clarke

529,99 RON

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ stu...

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Canada and Ireland. A Political and Diplomatic History, Hardback - Philip J. Currie

513,99 RON

This intriguing study sheds light on Canada's relationship with Ireland, revealing the origins, trials, and successes of the intimate and at times ...

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Canadian Foreign Policy. Reflections on a Field in Transition, Hardback - ***

504,99 RON

Canadian Foreign Policy brings together leading scholars in a lively, engaging meditation on the current state and future direction of the Canadian...

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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day, Paperback - Byrne R. S. Fone

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression...

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Life Model of Social Work Practice. Advances in Theory and Practice, Hardback - Carel Germain

480,99 RON

The Life Model of Social Work Practice was the first textbook to introduce the ecological perspective into social work practice. This fourth editio...

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Rethinking Investment Incentives. Trends and Policy Options, Hardback - ***

480,99 RON

This collection illustrates the different types and uses of investment initiatives worldwide. By combining economic analysis with development impac...

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Negative Emotions and Transitional Justice, Hardback - Mihaela Mihai

480,99 RON

Contributes theoretically and practically to the growing field of transitional justice

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Speaking for Buddhas. Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism, Hardback - Richard F. Nance

480,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Richard F. NanceIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 233 x...

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On My Country and the World, Hardcover - Mikhail Gorbachev

476,99 RON

Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material,...

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