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Sustainable Food Production. An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer, Paperback - ***

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This concise text offers an overview of the key issues in sustainable food production for all readers interested in the ecology and environmental i...

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Faraway. A Novel, Paperback - Yi-Chin Lo

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In Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin's Faraway, a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his co...

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Subconsciousness. Automatic Behavior and the Brain, Paperback - Yves Agid

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The neurodegenerative disease expert Yves Agid offers a groundbreaking and accessible account of subconsciousness and its significance. Shedding ne...

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Chop Suey, USA. The Story of Chinese Food in America, Paperback - Yong Chen

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American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United St...

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Inventing Tomorrow. H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Sarah Cole

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Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells's work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his inter...

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty. How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld, Paperback - Dominique Kalifa

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian d...

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Rage and Time. A Psychopolitical Investigation, Paperback - Peter Sloterdijk

170,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Peter SloterdijkTranslator: Mario WenningNumber of pages: 256Collection: Insurrections: Critical Stu...

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Suncranes and Other Stories. Modern Mongolian Short Fiction, Paperback - ***

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Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices from Mongolia's modern literary traditions. Spanning the years following the socia...

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Malebranche. Theological Figure, Being 2, Paperback - Alain Badiou

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Alain Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contempora...

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

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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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The Sustainable City. second edition, Paperback - Dong Guo

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The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. This second edition dives deeper into...

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The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano. Flowering Blood, Paperback - Sean Redmond

155,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Sean RedmondIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 20, Number of pages: 256Collection: Directors' CutsPublicat...

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The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries. Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them, Paperback - Donald R. Prothero

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In The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most important fossil finds and the in...

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The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945, Paperback - Olivier Wieviorka

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The Resistance in Western Europe is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine or...

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You @ the U. A Guided Tour through Your First Year of University, Paperback - Janet Miller

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In this essential guide, university counsellor Janet Miller draws on her wit, wisdom, and decades of experience to help first-time students - of wh...

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On My Country and the World, Hardcover - Mikhail Gorbachev

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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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Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, Paperback - Adriana Cavarero

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Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the wor...

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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World, Paperback - David Hurst

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Reducere. David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations--their function and their failure--both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five yea...

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Notes of a Desolate Man, Paperback - T'Ien-Wen Chu

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Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves...

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Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, Paperback - Jeffrey B. Perry

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Reducere. Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his ...

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Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, Paperback - Lawrence Kaplan

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Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

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Hitchcock's Films Revisited, Paperback - Robin Wood

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Reducere. When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it became known as a book on film that came to be considered a necessary text in the Hitchcock bibliogr...

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A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge, Hardcover - David Hajdu

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Bert Williams--a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay--an entertainer with the signat...

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Arab and Jewish Questions. Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond, Paperback - ***

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This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the "Jewish Question" and the "Arab Question" are entangled historically and in the pres...

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In Remembrance of the Saints. The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty, Paperback - Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari

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In the late eighteenth century, Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-...

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Morphing Intelligence. From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains, Paperback - Catherine Malabou

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Acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnol...

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Black Circle. A Life of Alexandre Kojeve, Paperback - Jeff Love

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Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojeve's works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation of self-interest. Joi...

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Race Capital?. Harlem as Setting and Symbol, Paperback - ***

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Leading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem's social, political, and intellectual history, its artistic, cultural, and economic life, and i...

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Parks for Profit. Selling Nature in the City, Paperback - Kevin Loughran

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Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical per...

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The Wuhan Lockdown, Hardback - ***

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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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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, Paperback - ***

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This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer ...

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Hunters and Bureaucrats. Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon, Paperback - Paul Nadasdy

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A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Sout...

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Hard Rain. Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History, Paperback - ***

152,99 RON

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores...

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

228,99 RON

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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Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication, Paperback - Siegfried Kracauer

167,99 RON

This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer's work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in...

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

219,99 RON

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 Inner Bird. Anatomy and Evolution, Paperback - Gary W. Kaiser

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Introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancest...

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

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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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Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar, Paperback - Edwin G. Pulleyblank

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A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressAuthor(s): Edwin G. Pu...

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The Successful TA. A Practical Approach to Effective Teaching, Paperback - Carol Pollock

86,99 RON

Feel confident stepping into your role as a TA with help from this short, practical guide, which demystifies everything from how to interact with c...

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The Brain and Pain. Breakthroughs in Neuroscience, Paperback - Richard Ambron

190,99 RON

The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from...

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Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949, Paperback - Christopher G. Rea

190,99 RON

Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and comple...

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Audio-Vision. Sound on Screen, Paperback - Michel Chion

190,99 RON

Presents a reassessment of the audiovisual media since sound's revolutionary debut in 1927 and sheds light on the mutual influences of sound and im...

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The Wuhan Lockdown, Paperback - ***

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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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Line of Advantage. Japan's Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo, Paperback - Michael Green

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Line of Advantage provides a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the new grand strategy that emerged in Japan under Abe Shinzo. Michael J. ...

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Making War on the World. How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order, Paperback - Mark Shirk

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Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. ...

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Profitably Healthy Companies. Principles of Organizational Growth and Development, Paperback - Warner Burke

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Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and...

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Barbary Captives. An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslave...

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Internationalist Aesthetics. China and Early Soviet Culture, Paperback - Edward Tyerman

213,99 RON

Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading...

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Film Sound. Theory and Practice, Paperback - ***

266,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressNumber of pages: 462Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 228 x 149 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

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Learning to Rule. Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861-1912, Paperback - Daniel Barish

213,99 RON

Daniel Barish explores debates surrounding the education of the final three Qing emperors, showing how imperial curricula became proxy battles for ...

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Posthumanism in Art and Science. A Reader, Paperback - ***

213,99 RON

Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring groundbreaking theorists as well as innovative, ...

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

228,99 RON

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

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

228,99 RON

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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Imagining Difference. Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town, Paperback - Leslie A. Robertson

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An ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC, a coal-mining town transforming in...

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Kukai. Major Works, Paperback - Kukai

259,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): KukaiTranslator: Yoshito (THE AWAKENING OF FAITH) HakedaNumber of pages: 303Collection: Translations...

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A Brief History of the Masses. Three Revolutions, Hardback - Stefan Jonsson

335,99 RON

Drawing on examples from literature, politics, philosophy, and additional pieces of art, this book reveals surprising parallels between the people'...

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

219,99 RON

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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A Cultural History of the Soul. Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present, Paperback - Kocku von Stuckrad

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This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siecle Germany, Kocku ...

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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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Hitchcock Annual: Volume 24, Paperback - ***

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Hitchcock Annual, volume 24, includes essays on unresolved ambiguities in Suspicion and trauma and recovery in Under Capricorn. A special feature o...

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Information. A Reader, Paperback - ***

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Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts fr...

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Film Programming. Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives, Paperback - Peter Bosma

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Explores artistic choices in cinema exhibition, focusing on film theaters, film festivals, and film archivesPublisher: Columbia University PressAut...

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Exhuming Violent Histories. Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain's Past, Paperback - Nicole Iturriaga

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Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, res...

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The Altruistic Urge. Why We're Driven to Help Others, Hardback - Stephanie D. Preston

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Stephanie D. Preston explores how and why we developed a surprisingly powerful drive to help the vulnerable. She argues that the neural and psychol...

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The Promise and Peril of Things. Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China, Paperback - Wai-yee (Harvard University) Li

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Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

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Production Power and World Order. Social Forces in the Making of History, Paperback - Robert Cox

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In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

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The Myth of Private Equity. An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments, Hardback - Jeffrey C. Hooke

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The Myth of Private Equity is a hard-hitting and meticulous expose from an insider's viewpoint. Jeffrey C. Hooke-a former private equity executive ...

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