Dust: The Archive and Cultural History, Paperback - Carolyn Kay Steedman

Reducere. In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an originaland sometimes irreverentinvestigation into how modern histo...

Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs t...

Reducere. This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a...

Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. 'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chines...

Reducere. The array of bottles is impressive, their contents finely tuned to varied tastes. But they all share the same roots in Mesoamerica's natural bounty...

Reducere. A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Omar W. NasimIllustration(s): 45 colour illustrations, 59 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publi...

The position of poetry as a historical force is explored here, with specific attention to W.H. Auden's Cold War-era output. }Poetry For Historians{...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilizatio...

In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance...

Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate the...

Reducere. African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framewo...

The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia.

Explores the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, These essays turn their attention to the wealth of...

Reducere. In this riveting novel, historical fiction writer Carolyn Kay Brancato weaves a tapestry of courage by ordinary people who rise to face the evil of...

Reducere. When the body of a naked man is found in the middle of a barren field, Detective Kay Hunter realises the investigation will test her skills to the ...

'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Jackie KayNumb...

Reducere. A comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the behavior and qualities of the catOf all the domesticated species, cats have enjoyed the mos...

Reducere. A richly illustrated introduction to the goat--from livestock to beloved pet It may come as no surprise that goats are highly intelligent. They are...

London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750 - Robert O. Bucholz, Joseph P. Ward

Reducere. DescriptionA Russian circus in trouble. An animal trainer in love. Can the ensemble survive an international scandal?Russia, 1907. Vladimir Durov h...

Contributor(s): Author: J. Malcolm ShickFor millennia, corals were a marine enigma, organisms that confounded scientific classification and occupie...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Timothy HamptonNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

Reducere. A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early mo...

Reducere. The seminal history of Ireland's most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium. With its starting point the bloody creation of th...

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Reducere. Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a children's pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collect...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): M. Leona GodinNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 202 x 35Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

This book offers a historically rich and nuanced introduction to the concept of sustainability that could not be of more pressing importance for th...