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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Intersecting Lives, Paperback - Francois Dosse

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Francois DosseIllustration(s): 29 illus.Translator: Deborah GlassmanNumber of pages: 672Collection: ...

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Creaturely Poetics. Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film, Paperback - Anat Pick

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Anat PickNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 208 x 138 x 13Cover type: Paperback /...

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Community Practice Skills Workbook. Local to Global Perspectives, Paperback - Emily MacGuire

170,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Emily MacGuireIllustration(s): 4 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2009Di...

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Skin. On the Cultural Border Between Self and World, Paperback - Claudia Benthien

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Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through bri...

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The Voice Over: Poems and Essays, Paperback - Maria Stepanova

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Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and pro...

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Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals, Paperback - Gary Francione

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Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not ...

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The Life Written by Himself, Paperback - Avvakum Petrov

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Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar ec...

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Life of Imagination. Revealing and Making the World, Paperback - Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

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The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world-thinking, acting, fee...

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

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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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Buddha's Wizards. Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism, Paperback - Thomas Nathan Patton

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Belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha's Wizards is a hist...

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Meals Matter. A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy, Hardback - Michael Symons

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In Meals Matter, Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the distribution of food and the labor required. Setting the table with vivid des...

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Uyghurs. Strangers in Their Own Land, Paperback - Gardner Bovingdon

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Beginning with the history of Xinjiang and its unique population of Chinese Muslims, Gardner Bovingdon follows fifty years of Uyghur discontent, pa...

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Climate Change Science. A Primer for Sustainable Development, Paperback - Dr. John C. Mutter

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This book is a primer on the essential science for grasping the workings of climate change and climate prediction. It is accessible for readers wit...

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No Finish Line. Lessons on Life and Career, Hardback - Meyer Feldberg

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No Finish Line is Meyer Feldberg as his friends and colleagues know him. In his telling, Feldberg's story-both his successes and his failures-is a ...

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Death of Idealism. Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps, Paperback - Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

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Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination o...

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Vernacular Industrialism in China. Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940, Hardback - Eugenia Lea

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By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940), Eugenia Lean illustrate...

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Chile Pepper in China. A Cultural Biography, Hardback - Brian R. Dott

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Brian R. Dott explores how the non-native chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language,...

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Closed Circle. Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, Paperback - Lorenzo Vidino

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The Closed Circle offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the world's most influential Islamist groups operates. Lorenzo Vidino marshal...

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Philosophy of the Daodejing, Paperback - Hans-Georg Moeller

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The Chinese philosophical text the "Daodejing" offers insights concerning the cultivation of one's body. This book presents a description and analy...

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Masks of Conquest. Literary Study and British Rule in India, Paperback - Gauri Viswanathan

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Describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and its function as an effective form of political control

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Through Vegetal Being. Two Philosophical Perspectives, Paperback - Michael Marder

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A unique collaboration to map the ontology and epistemology of the human-plant relationship.

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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian, Paperback - Lao Tzu

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A revolutionary archaeological discovery-considered by some to be as momentous as the revelation of the Dead Sea Scrolls-sheds fascinating new ligh...

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Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11, Paperback - ***

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What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replaci...

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Philosopher's Plant. An Intellectual Herbarium, Paperback - Michael Marder

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Reducere. A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

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To Write as if Already Dead, Paperback - Kate Zambreno

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To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Li...

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Return of Work in Critical Theory. Self, Society, Politics, Hardback - Nicholas H. Smith

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This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts in philosophy, social theory, and...

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Regimes of Historicity. Presentism and Experiences of Time, Paperback - Francois Hartog

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A classical historian confronts our crises of time, radically calling into question our relations to the past, present, and future.

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Karl Polanyi. A Life on the Left, Hardback - Dr. Gareth Dale

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A biography that connects the theorist's maverick intellect and political commitments to the turbulent times in which he lived.

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

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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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Socratic Method of Psychotherapy, Paperback - James Overholser

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James Overholser approaches cognitive therapy through the interactive dialogues of Socrates, aiming to reduce the gap between theory and practice. ...

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Born Translated. The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature, Paperback - Rebecca L. Walkowitz

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A new understanding of the novel's cultural and political significance in the age of the global audience.

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Economic Thought. A Brief History, Paperback - Heinz Kurz

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In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray how insights are acquired, lost, and r...

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People's Money. How China Is Building a Global Currency, Paperback - Paola Subacchi

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The People's Money introduces readers to China's monetary system, mapping its evolution over the past century and, particularly, its transformation...

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Cinema in the Digital Age, Hardback - Nicholas Rombes

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

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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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Spirals. The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art, Paperback - Nico Israel

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Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the spiral not only as his ...

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

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

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

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

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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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Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism, Paperback - ***

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In this interdisciplinary volume, a group of prominent international scholars considers alternative political formations to the nation-state, discu...

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

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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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There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship. Two Lessons on Lacan, Paperback - Barbara Cassin

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Badiou and Cassin engage with Lacan's L'Etourdit, exploring how love sheds light on the nature of reality and what counts as truth.

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Reform Cinema in Iran. Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic, Paperback - Blake Robert Atwood

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An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Political Categories. Thinking Beyond Concepts, Hardback - Michael Marder

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

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

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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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Griffintown. Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood, Paperback - Matthew Barlow

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This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and col...

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Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco. Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization, Hardback - Janine A. Clark

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Janine A. Clark examines why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not and evaluates the impact of their divergent paths in order to explain how a...

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Fathering from the Margins. An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood, Hardback - Aasha M. Abdill

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Aasha M. Abdill draws on fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as deadbeat dads. She presents qualitative and quantita...

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

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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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Marx After Marx. History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism, Paperback - Harry Harootunian

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Revisiting Marx's seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.

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Essays on the Essay Film, Paperback - ***

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This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early c...

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Contesting Cyberspace in China. Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience, Paperback - Rongbin Han

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Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China's survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, a...

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

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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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Political Freud. A History, Paperback - Eli Zaretsky

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Political Freud considers how twentieth century radicals, activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to understand the political developments of...

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Japan's Security Renaissance. New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Andrew L. Oros

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In this analysis of Japan's changing military policy, Andrew L. Oros shows how a gradual awakening to new security challenges has culminated in the...

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Frontier Investor. How to Prosper in the Next Emerging Markets, Hardback - Marko Dimitrijevic

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Opening up a whole new world-and worldview-to the adventurous investor.

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Learning to Kneel. Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching, Hardback - Carrie J. Preston

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Learning to Kneel locates noh drama's influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J. Preston's work has been profoun...

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The Impossible David Lynch, Paperback - Todd McGowan

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DescriptionTodd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's tale...

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