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Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe, Paperback - Lester Little

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

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Class Divide: Yale 64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties, Hardcover - Howard Gillette

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

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Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Paperback - Hildi Kang

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Acts of Care. Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health, Paperback - Sara Ritchey

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What Is to Be Done?, Paperback - Nikolai Chernyshevsky

179,99 RON

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The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda, Paperback - Scott Straus

130,99 RON

DescriptionThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international...

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Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV, Paperback - Emily Mendenhall

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Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes, Paperback - Julie Michelle Klinger

209,99 RON

Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electron...

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Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Hardcover - Michael Olmert

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Finding a Form: Towards a Response Contagion Theory of Persuasion, Paperback - William H. Gass

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Accommodated Jew. English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton, Hardback - Kathy Lavezzo

479,99 RON

In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England's rejection of "the Jew" and the centrality ...

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China Transformed. Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience, Paperback - R. Bin Wong

144,00 RON

"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China.... It will set...

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All Societies Die: How to Keep Hope Alive, Hardcover - Samuel Cohn

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

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Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France, Paperback - Elizabeth Andrews Bond

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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure. The Sad History of American Business Schools, Paperback - Steven Conn

152,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Steven ConnNumber of pages: 288Collection: Histories of American EducationPublication date: 2021Dimen...

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Uncertainty by Design. Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology, Paperback - Limor Samimian-Darash

188,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Limor Samimian-DarashIllustration(s): 5 Charts; 9 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 204Colle...

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The Forest of Symbols. Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Paperback - Victor Turner

197,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Victor TurnerNumber of pages: 417Publication date: 1970Dimensions: 212 x 141 x 26Cover type: Paperbac...

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Galvanizing Nostalgia?. Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia, Paperback - Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

215,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Marjorie Mandelstam BalzerIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 21 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, bl...

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Unmaking Migrants. Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking, Paperback - Stacey Vanderhurst

209,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Stacey VanderhurstIllustration(s): 1 Charts; 9 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 210Collecti...

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Contesting Race and Citizenship. Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean, Paperback - Camilla Hawthorne

209,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Camilla HawthorneIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 23 Halftones, black and white; 1 ChartsNumber of pages: 324...

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Shaken Authority. China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Hardback - Christian P. Sorace

349,99 RON

In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ...

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A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer, Hardcover - Oyama Shiro

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

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Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism, Paperback - Sara E. Lewis

173,99 RON

Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may i...

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Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow, Hardcover - Jeff Sahadeo

316,99 RON

DescriptionJeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge foc...

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Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain, Hardcover - Carissa M. Harris

316,99 RON

DescriptionAs anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situation...

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One Hundred Autobiographies: A Memoir, Hardcover - David Lehman

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

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Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation - Hagen Koo

209,99 RON

DescriptionForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factor...

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Paradoxes of Delusion. Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind, Paperback - Louis A. Sass

144,00 RON

Insanity-in clinical practice as in the popular imagination-is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do ...

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Stuck on Communism. Memoir of a Russian Historian, Paperback - Lewis H. Siegelbaum

218,99 RON

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century-from the 1950s when Lewis Sieg...

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Trading Places. Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture, Paperback - Madeleine Dobie

255,99 RON

Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two ...

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Geopolitics of Spectacle. Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia, Hardback - Natalie Koch

333,99 RON

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacul...

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The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic ACT, Paperback - Fredric Jameson

191,99 RON

Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He a...

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Emotional Diplomacy. Official Emotion on the International Stage, Paperback - Todd H. Hall

218,99 RON

In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which...

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Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence Through Local Agents, Paperback - Eli Berman

178,99 RON

DescriptionThe most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls...

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The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, Paperback - Thomas L. Pangle

401,99 RON 430,99 RON

Reducere. This book consists of literal English translations of ten Socratic dialogues that have been largely neglected for the last century. Although everyo...

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Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, Paperback - Joseph C. Macfarland

219,99 RON

Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, has been a classroom favorite since its publication in 1963. ...

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The Origins of Alliances, Paperback - Stephen M. Walt

143,99 RON

How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of internat...

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Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, Hardcover - Judith G. Coffin

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it i...

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Decolonizing Palestine. Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, Paperback - Somdeep Sen

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Decolonizing Palestine. Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, Hardback - Somdeep Sen

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Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts, Hardcover - Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

267,99 RON

DescriptionAs a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states s...

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Balancing Two Worlds. Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories, Paperback - ***

173,99 RON

"Those who find themselves living in the Americas, no matter what their ethnic, educational, or economic background, must ultimately 'become their ...

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Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration, Paperback - James Phelan

200,99 RON

In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Heming...

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Understanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts, Paperback - Dominick LaCapra

143,99 RON

DescriptionTo what extent do we and can we understand others--other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselve...

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Phone Clones. Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service Economy, Paperback - Kiran Mirchandani

218,99 RON

Kiran Mirchandani explores the experiences of the men and women who work in Indian call centers through one hundred interviews with workers in Bang...

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Home Care Fault Lines. Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances, Paperback - Cynthia J. Cranford

191,99 RON

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Salvage. Cultural Resilience among the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia, Paperback - Krisna Uk

237,99 RON

In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic mino...

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Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture, Paperback - Kerry Dean Carso

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration...

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Beyond Oligarchy. Wealth, Power, and Contemporary Indonesian Politics, Paperback - ***

191,99 RON

A collection of essays by leading scholars of contemporary Indonesian politics and society, each addressing effects of material inequality on polit...

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Arctic Mirrors. Russia and the Small Peoples of the North, Paperback - Yuri Slezkine

237,99 RON

Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.

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Making Morocco. Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity, Paperback - Jonathan Wyrtzen

165,00 RON

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco's historical coverage is remarkably thorough a...

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Can You Beat Churchill?. Teaching History through Simulations, Paperback - Michael A. Barnhart

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Secession and Security. Explaining State Strategy against Separatists, Paperback - Ahsan I. Butt

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Invisible Weapons. Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology, Paperback - M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

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Tempting Fate. Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents, Paperback - Paul C. Avey

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Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana, Hardcover - Evelyn D. Trebilcock

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Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions, Hardcover - Marina E. Henke

350,99 RON

How do states overcome problems of collective action in the face of human atrocities, terrorism and the threat of weapons of mass destruction? How ...

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Gendering the Master Narrative. Women and Power in the Middle Ages, Paperback - ***

237,99 RON

Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition mig...

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The Death of Tolstoy. Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910, Hardback - William S. Nickell

222,99 RON

In the middle of the night of October 28, 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the most famous man in Russia, vanished. A secular saint revered for his literary geni...

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Emotional Diplomacy. Official Emotion on the International Stage, Hardback - Todd H. Hall

307,99 RON

In Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion on the international stage, looking at the ways in which...

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History Is a Contemporary Literature: Manifesto for the Social Sciences, Hardcover - Ivan Jablonka

273,99 RON

Ivan Jablonka's History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between lite...

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The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens, Hardcover - Jacqueline de Romilly

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Pelopon...

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Rituals of Care: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand, Paperback - Felicity Aulino

156,99 RON

End-of-life issues are increasingly central to discussions within medical anthropology, the anthropology of political action, and the study of Budd...

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Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature, Hardcover - Gitanjali G. Shahani

268,99 RON

Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign ...

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Voicing American Poetry. Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present, Paperback - Lesley Wheeler

215,99 RON

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emp...

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From Victory to Peace. Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon, Paperback - Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter

136,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Elise Kimerling WirtschafterIllustration(s): 3 MapsNumber of pages: 342Collection: NIU Series in Slav...

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Staging Democracy. Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond, Paperback - Jessica Pisano

189,99 RON

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Jessica PisanoNumber of pages: 252Collection: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studi...

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Oneida Utopia: A Community Searching for Human Happiness and Prosperity, Hardcover - Anthony Wonderley

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm...

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Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science". Translations, Commentaries, and Essays, Paperback - Giambattista Vico

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Brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work.Publisher: Co...

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Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars, Paperback - ***

209,99 RON

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