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The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction, Paperback - Mingwei Song

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DescriptionA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions...

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Short Selling. Finding Uncommon Short Ideas, Hardback - Amit Kumar

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A practical guide to the risky practice of betting against stocks.

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Trauma. Contemporary Directions in Trauma Theory, Research, and Practice, Paperback - ***

232,99 RON

An expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest...

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Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice, Paperback - Michael Satlow

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How can we define "Judaism, " and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews...

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Philosophies of Happiness: A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life, Paperback - Diana Lobel

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What does it mean to be truly happy? In Philosophies of Happiness, Diana Lobel provides a rich spectrum of arguments for a theory of happiness as f...

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Psychiatric Casualties. How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War, Paperback - Professor Charles Figley

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The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental heal...

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A Primer in Biological Data Analysis and Visualization Using R. second edition, Paperback - Gregg (SUNY Geneseo) Hartvigsen

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This text is an engaging, practical, and lab-oriented introduction to R for students in the life sciences. This second edition has been revised to ...

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Getting Price Right. The Behavioral Economics of Profitable Pricing, Hardback - Dr. Gerald Smith

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Combining perceptive insights from behavioral economics with leading-edge ideas on price management, this book offers a new approach to pricing. Ge...

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How to Read Chinese Drama. A Guided Anthology, Paperback - Regina Llamas

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This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performanc...

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Critique of Bored Reason. On the Confinement of the Modern Condition, Paperback - ***

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In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such think...

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Bhagavata Purana. Selected Readings, Paperback - Kenneth Valpey

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Formalized by the tenth century, the Bhagavata Purana has witnessed centuries of performance, interpretation, worship, and debate. This annotated t...

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Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad, Paperback - Aaron Y. Zelin

232,99 RON

DescriptionTunisia became one of the largest sources of foreign fighters for the Islamic State--even though the country stands out as a democratic ...

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Confucianism and Sacred Space: The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today, Paperback - Chin-Shing Huang

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Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent s...

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To the End of Revolution. The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959, Paperback - Xiaoyuan Liu

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The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu d...

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Mind Ecologies: Body, Brain, and World, Paperback - Matthew Crippen

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Pragmatism--a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science--is resurging across discip...

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Wisdom as a Way of Life. Theravada Buddhism Reimagined, Paperback - Steven Collins

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This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities an...

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Critique and Praxis, Hardback - Bernard E. Harcourt

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Bernard E. Harcourt calls for moving beyond the complacency of decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for act...

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Python for MBAs, Paperback - Daniel Guetta

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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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Animals and Society. An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies, Paperback - Margo Demello

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Human-animal studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds. Margo DeMello ...

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At Home and Abroad. The Politics of American Religion, Paperback - ***

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At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together di...

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Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains, Paperback - Alexandra Lutnick

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The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-...

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Fantastic Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life, Hardcover - Donald R. Prothero

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DescriptionNothing fills us with a sense of wonder like fossils. What looks at first like a simple rock is in fact a clue that reveals the staggeri...

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Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas, Paperback - Jean Grondin

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DescriptionJean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending ...

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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It, Hardcover - Donald R. Prothero

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The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective....

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Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West, Hardcover - Gilles Kepel

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The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisi...

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Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2, Hardcover - Alain Badiou

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DescriptionAlain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Bad...

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Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters, Hardcover - Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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DescriptionPantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical--that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the...

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After Uniqueness. A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, Paperback - Erika Balsom

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A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"

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Future as Catastrophe. Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age, Paperback - Eva Horn

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The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots ...

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New Russian Drama. An Anthology, Paperback - ***

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This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global relevance of this exciting move...

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

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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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We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us. Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines, with a new foreword by the author, Paperback - June Nash

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In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional cu...

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Inner Life of the Dying Person, Paperback - Allan (Professor of Community Health, Middlesex University) Kellehear

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The Inner Life of the Person Dying recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's perspective, showing that-along wit...

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Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927, Paperback - Jeffrey B. Perry

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The St. Croix-born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class cons...

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The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World, Paperback - Partha Chatterjee

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DescriptionOften dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Par...

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The Motivation to Vote. Explaining Electoral Participation, Hardback - Jean-Francois Daoust

230,99 RON

An original, parsimonious, and elegant explanation of why we vote or abstain in elections.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressAuthor(s):...

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Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004, Hardcover - Robert McCaughey

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Reducere. Stand, Columbia Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. "Stand, Columbia " by Gilb...

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Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, Hardcover - David Palmer

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Reducere. Qigong--a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises--was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth...

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"I Was the Only Woman". Women and Planning in Canada, Paperback - Sue Hendler

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A compelling new perspective on Canada's planning history that offers a counter-narrative to the "official" story of the profession, one that has g...

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The Struggle to Stay. Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church, Hardback - Katie Gaddini

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The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women's experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access ...

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Islam in America, Paperback - Jane Smith

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This richly textured, critically acclaimed portrait of American Muslims introduces the basic tenets of the Muslim faith, surveys the history of Isl...

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I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation. and Other Quotations from Oscar Wilde, Hardback - ***

228,99 RON

This text presents over 1000 Oscar Wilde quotations on subjects from absinthe to Zola. In addition, it includes selections from Wilde's personal le...

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Saracens. Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, Paperback - John V. Tolan

228,99 RON

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. What ideological purposes did these...

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Graphic Women. Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, Paperback - Hillary L. Chute

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Hillary L. ChuteNumber of pages: 316Collection: Gender and Culture SeriesPublication date: 2010Dimen...

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French Gastronomy. The History and Geography of a Passion, Hardback - Jean-Robert Pitte

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Why did the passion for food-gastronomy-originate in France? The key, it turns out, is France itself. In its climate, diversity of soils, abundant ...

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Explorers of Deep Time. Paleontologists and the History of Life, Hardback - Roy Plotnick

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Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field's aims, methods, and...

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The Book of Lieh-Tzu. A Classic of the Tao, Paperback - ***

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-- Burton WatsonPublisher: Columbia University PressTranslator: A. C. GrahamNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 1990Dimensions: 209 x 138 x 11Cov...

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Living Through Loss. Interventions Across the Life Span, second edition, Paperback - Sara Sanders

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Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to...

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Unbearable Weight, Paperback - Susan Bordo

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"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole ra...

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Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets, Hardcover - Todd McGowan

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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders--but not because of what it ...

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The Campbell Revolution?. Power, Politics, and Policy in British Columbia, Paperback - ***

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Assessing British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell's tenure and political legacy.Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressIllustration(s): 3 table...

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Cataloguing Culture. Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation, Paperback - Hannah Turner

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In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens, Cata...

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Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings, Paperback - Burton Watson

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Reducere. Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preserving and ...

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The Top 500 Poems, Hardcover - William Harmon

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Reducere. The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poet...

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A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds, Paperback - Jacques Derrida

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Reducere. Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writin...

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Assisted Suicide in Canada. Moral, Legal, and Policy Considerations, Paperback - Travis Dumsday

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Assisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.Publisher: Univ...

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The West and the Birth of Bangladesh. Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity, Paperback - Richard Pilkington

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This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

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Japan's Motorcycle Wars. An Industry History, Paperback - Jeffrey W. Alexander

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Assesses the historical development and societal impact of the motorcycle industry, from the influence of motor sports on vehicle sales in the earl...

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

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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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How to Read Chinese Prose. A Guided Anthology, Paperback - ***

219,99 RON

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred ...

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The Traveler's Guide to Space. For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists, Hardback - Neil Comins

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An inside look at the experience of space travel and the destinations we may one day visit as space tourists.Publisher: Columbia University PressAu...

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The New Pragmatist Sociology. Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy, Paperback - ***

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In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas...

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Sacred Kingship in World History. Between Immanence and Transcendence, Paperback - ***

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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and i...

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"Keep 'Em in the East". Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance, Paperback - Richard Koszarski

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Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, ...

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Travels with Trilobites. Adventures in the Paleozoic, Hardback - Andy Secher

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In Travels with Trilobites, Andy Secher invites readers to come along in search of the fossilized remains of ancient arthropods. The book features ...

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Made in Hong Kong. Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization, Paperback - Peter E. Hamilton

217,99 RON

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

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Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures. Film and History in the Postcolony, Paperback - Rochona Majumdar

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Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it antic...

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Subaltern Social Groups. A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25, Paperback - Antonio Gramsci

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This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci's notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devote...

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William Greaves. Filmmaking as Mission, Paperback - ***

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William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. This volume provides the first comprehensive...

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Friend or Foe. Militia Intelligence and Ethnic Violence in the Lebanese Civil War, Paperback - Nils Hagerdal

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Under what circumstances are civil-war combatants more or less likely to commit ethnic violence? Nils Hagerdal examines the Lebanese civil war to o...

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