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Anxious Eaters. Why We Fall for Fad Diets, Hardback - Kima Cargill

159,99 RON

Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs-which is also why they tend to fail. Ja...

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Not Exactly Lying. Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History, Paperback - Andie Tucher

159,99 RON

From fibs about royal incest in America's first newspaper to social-media-driven conspiracy theories surrounding Barack Obama's birthplace, Andie T...

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Art and Posthistory. Conversations on the End of Aesthetics, Paperback - Demetrio Paparoni

109,99 RON

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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

149,99 RON

In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist's journey. He detai...

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My Brilliant Friends. Our Lives in Feminism, Paperback - Nancy K. Miller

114,99 RON

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the bo...

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The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, Paperback - Vannevar Bush

190,99 RON

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by...

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Kill the Documentary. A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars, Paperback - Jill Godmilow

190,99 RON

In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the co...

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Conversion Disorder. Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis, Paperback - Jamieson Webster

167,99 RON

Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting mea...

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Huayan University Network. The Teaching and Practice of Avatamsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China, Hardback - Erik J. Hammerstrom

387,99 RON

Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

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

217,99 RON

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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Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, Hardcover - James Fleming

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, ...

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Identifying with Nationality. Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria, Paperback - Will Hanley

179,99 RON

Identifying with Nationality traces the advent of modern citizenship to multinational, transimperial settings such as turn-of-the-century colonial ...

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

195,99 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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Terror in Transition. Leadership and Succession in Terrorist Organizations, Paperback - Elizabeth Grimm

179,99 RON

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of how religious terrorist groups manage and adapt to major shifts in leadership. It argues that how s...

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The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization, Hardcover - Peter T. Coleman

152,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarizat...

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Aging Behind Prison Walls. Studies in Trauma and Resilience, Paperback - Keith Morgen

310,99 RON

Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. The book draws on extensive ...

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Photo Poetics. Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture, Paperback - Shengqing Wu

217,99 RON

Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between ...

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Hermeneutics as Critique. Science, Politics, Race, and Culture, Paperback - Lorenzo C. Simpson

232,99 RON

Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for address...

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Praxis and Revolution. A Theory of Social Transformation, Paperback - Eva von Redecker

217,99 RON

Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory's understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She a...

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Why Trust Matters. An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us, Hardback - Benjamin Ho

217,99 RON

Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and...

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Dilemmas in Social Work Field Education. Decision Cases, Paperback - Melissa Reitmeier

217,99 RON

This anthology presents decision cases that depict the actual experiences of social work field educators and students. They showcase the complex dy...

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How to Feel. The Science and Meaning of Touch, Hardback - Sushma Subramanian

193,99 RON

How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sen...

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Leaving Home: Migration Yesterday and Today, Paperback - David Celani

193,99 RON

Why, after a childhood of emotional neglect and abuse, would a man move next door to the very parents who caused him pain? And how can a woman emer...

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Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Life After Death, Paperback - Regina M. Janes

248,99 RON

DescriptionWhy is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most moder...

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Preserving Neighborhoods. How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn, Paperback - Aaron Passell

217,99 RON

Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates ...

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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, Paperback - Anyi Wang

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, l...

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Merger Masters: Tales of Arbitrage, Hardcover - Kate Welling

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMerger Masters presents revealing profiles of monumentally successful merger investors based on exclusive interviews with some of the gr...

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

223,99 RON

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

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Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats, Paperback - Martha Washington

322,99 RON 345,99 RON

Reducere. Martha Washington's recipes: More than five hundred classics dating from the Elizabethan and Jacobean times, are gathered in this family cookbook t...

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History of Art in Japan, Paperback - Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere

196,99 RON

DescriptionHistory of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. Th...

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Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, Paperback - Alex Zamalin

155,99 RON

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, Paperback - Andre Schmid

315,99 RON 338,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionKorea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean histor...

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Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity, Paperback - Andrew H. Fisher

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionShadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ances...

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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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Queer Social Work. Cases for LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice, Paperback - Professor Tyler Arguello

193,99 RON

This collection of case studies offers real-life scenarios from a range of social work scholars, educators, and practitioners, representing diverse...

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Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS. Contributions from Critical Social Science, Paperback - ***

183,99 RON

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates t...

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Between Men. English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Paperback - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

155,99 RON

Examines men's relationships with one another in English literature and the ways those relationships affect women. Central to this study is Sedgwic...

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I Am the People. Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today, Paperback - Partha Chatterjee

155,99 RON

Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "...

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Unsettling Utopia. The Making and Unmaking of French India, Paperback - Jessica Namakkal

193,99 RON

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia pre...

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Media Capture. How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News, Paperback - ***

193,99 RON

This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture-how formerly independent ...

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Speculation. A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI, Paperback - Gayle Rogers

193,99 RON

In this cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Gayle Rogers traces the debates over speculation from antiquity to the present. Recasting cen...

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The Practice of Political Theory. Rorty and Continental Thought, Paperback - Clayton Chin

193,99 RON

Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that argues that that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for re...

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What Is Water?. The History of a Modern Abstraction, Paperback - Jamie Linton

239,99 RON

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.Publisher: University of Br...

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Class ACT: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins, Paperback - Cholly Atkins

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his appr...

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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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Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan, Paperback - Burton Watson

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later li...

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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Paperback - Kristine Stiles

209,99 RON

First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries a...

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Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece, Paperback - Edward Barnard

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. This is the ultimate field guide to the trees and landscapes of Central Park, with a lively, authoritative text and over 900 color photographs, bot...

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The Designing for Growth Field Book: A Step-By-Step Project Guide, Paperback - Jeanne Liedtka

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (D4G) showed how organizations can use design thinking to boost innovation and drive ...

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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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Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin, Paperback - Robert H. Ruby

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla...

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Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, Paperback - Michael Christopher Low

217,99 RON

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

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The Terroir of Whiskey: A Distiller's Journey Into the Flavor of Place, Hardcover - Rob Arnold

170,99 RON

Look at the back label of a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew t...

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Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia, Paperback - Eric Schluessel

217,99 RON

At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majo...

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Getting Wise about Getting Old. Debunking Myths about Aging, Paperback - ***

127,99 RON

By exploring the social issues of aging and debunking the common myths, Getting Wise about Getting Old paints a more accurate and nuanced portrait ...

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

232,99 RON

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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Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters - No Yasumaro Ō

193,99 RON

Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a di...

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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, Paperback - Rita James Simon

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic backgrou...

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Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology, Paperback - Bruce Fulton

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses...

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Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, Paperback - Elizabeth Grosz

116,99 RON

DescriptionInstead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-espec...

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German Officer in Occupied Paris. The War Journals, 1941-1945, Paperback - Ernst Junger

155,99 RON

Ernst Junger, one of twentieth-century Germany's most important and controversial writers, faithfully kept a journal during the Second World War in...

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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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Political Lives of Dead Bodies. Reburial and Postsocialist Change, Paperback - Katherine Verdery

217,99 RON

Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Verdery investigates why certain corpse...

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

193,99 RON

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

232,99 RON

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

232,99 RON

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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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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