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

170,99 RON

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

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

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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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Haiku Before Haiku. From the Renga Masters to Basho, Paperback - Steven D. Carter

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Steven D. CarterNumber of pages: 176Collection: Translations from the Asian ClassicsPublication date...

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Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting, Paperback - David P. Celani

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): David P. CelaniNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 13Cover type: Paper...

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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils, Hardcover - Dean R. Lomax

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Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? W...

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

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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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Salo Baron. The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America, Paperback - ***

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In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book b...

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

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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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The Immersive Enclosure. Virtual Reality in Japan, Paperback - Paul Roquet

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Is immersion just another name for enclosure? In this groundbreaking analysis of virtual reality in Japan, Paul Roquet uncovers how the technology ...

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The Italian Invert. A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Emile Zola, Paperback - ***

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In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described h...

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

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The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. H...

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The Musha Incident. A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan, Paperback - ***

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This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan's modern history and its fra...

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Racism, Not Race. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, Hardback - Alan H. Goodman

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In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-ans...

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The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment. Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value, Paperback - Horacio Ortiz

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Horacio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing ...

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Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies, Paperback - Hunter Vaughan

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DescriptionIn an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped ...

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

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

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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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Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women', Paperback - Susan Moller Okin

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A collection of essays by Okin and others that explore multiculturalism and the acceptance of group rights - is it just perpetuating the oppression...

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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded), Paperback - Michael Mauboussin

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Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named be...

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Emerging Domestic Markets. How Financial Entrepreneurs Reach Underserved Communities in the United States, Hardback - Gregory Fairchild

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Gregory Fairchild introduces readers to the rising set of entrepreneurs whose efforts to reach marginalized groups are reshaping the emerging marke...

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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, Paperback - Eric Kandel

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Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remark...

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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Donald R. Prothero

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Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engagin...

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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, Paperback - Michael Mann

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The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the cas...

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The Shape of Sex. Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, Paperback - ***

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The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender cate...

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Perilous Medicine. The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War, Hardback - ***

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Leonard Rubenstein-a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities around the world-offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers hea...

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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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Appetite for Innovation: Creativity and Change at Elbulli, Paperback - M. Pilar Opazo

170,99 RON

DescriptionThe name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the w...

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Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea. Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday, Paperback - Ksenia Chizhova

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The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the ...

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Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services, Paperback - Frederic G. Reamer

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Frederic G. Reamer offers a frank analysis of a range of boundary issues that human-service practitioners may confront. This third edition brings t...

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Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Paperback - Rey Chow

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Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European langu...

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The Conflicted Superpower: America's Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation, Hardcover - Andrew Kennedy

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For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increas...

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Home- And Community-Based Services for Older Adults: Aging in Context, Paperback - Keith Anderson

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Reducere. As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCB...

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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution, Paperback - Daniel Raimi

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DescriptionOver roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically--thanks largely to technological advan...

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Empiricism and Subjectivity. An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature, Paperback - Gilles Deleuze

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At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of D...

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Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi. A Translation of the Lin-chi lu, Paperback - ***

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Renowned scholar Burton Watson's translation exactingly depicts the life and teachings of the great ninth-century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one o...

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

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

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

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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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Learn or Die. Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization, Paperback - Edward D. Hess

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In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and education with key research on high...

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The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change, Paperback - Jason Miller

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Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art are foun...

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Gender and the Politics of History. thirtieth anniversary edition, Paperback - Joan Wallach Scott

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This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and h...

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The End of Children?. Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood, Paperback - ***

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This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child rais...

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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Paperback - Julia Kristeva

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DescriptionDesire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the a...

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

155,99 RON

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of lit...

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From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought, Paperback - Karl Lowith

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Reducere. Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, L with discusses how Hegel's students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaar...

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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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Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism, Paperback - Mikhail Gorbachev

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DescriptionMikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one wa...

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Manufacturing Decline. How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt, Paperback - Jason Hackworth

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Manufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on-and perpetuated-Rust Belt cities' misfortunes by stoking racial resen...

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Other Moons. Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath, Paperback - ***

155,99 RON

In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their...

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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Paperback - Jon Hale

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Reducere. Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an a...

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Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography, Paperback - Yuri Pines

193,99 RON

There is a stark contrast between the overarching importance of history writing in imperial China and the meagerness of historical texts from the c...

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Companion to The Story of the Stone. A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide, Paperback - Susan Chan Egan

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The Story of the Stone is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. This book is a straightforward guide to a complex classic. Eac...

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Energy's Digital Future. Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security, Hardback - Amy Myers Jaffe

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Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to ...

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Finding Ferrante. Authorship and the Politics of World Literature, Paperback - Alessia Ricciardi

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Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante's identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels' l...

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The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, Paperback - Bashir Bashir

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DescriptionIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked witho...

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Classical Japanese: A Grammar: Exercise Answers and Tables - Haruo Shirane

155,99 RON

DescriptionIsrael's victory over Arab states in the Six Day War of 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Ever since, Europe has struggled to esta...

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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Wm Theodore de Bary

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For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

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Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka, Paperback - Nira Wickramasinghe

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For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, i...

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In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains", Paperback - Phil Brown

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Reducere. Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continui...

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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II, Paperback - Yoshiaki Yoshimi

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Reducere. Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during ...

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How to Read a Japanese Poem, Paperback - Steven D. Carter

193,99 RON

DescriptionHow to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. St...

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After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, Paperback - Edward Said

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Reducere. A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives o...

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Developing Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention. Issues, Methods, and Research Agenda, Paperback - ***

294,99 RON

The authors of this work advocate the development of readily available, accessible and professionally sanctioned practice guidelines for social wor...

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