Fragments from the History of Loss. The Nature Industry and the Postcolony, Paperback - Louise Green

Examines the theoretical framing of "nature" in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of cli...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Whitney TrettienIllustration(s): 60 black & whilte illustrations, 10 color platesNumber of pages...

DescriptionCivil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to...

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understa...

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...

Ruins and Fragments is a wide-ranging, elliptical, engaging view of the history of modernity through the lens of the ruined and fragmentary. It exp...

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Reducere. Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the fede...

Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intell...

An insight by a leading practitioner and expert into the world of luxury brands and how they have grown despite the recent economic recession.Publi...

In Big Fit Girl, Louise Green describes how the fitness industry fails to meet the needs of plus-size women and thus prevents them from improving t...

Reducere. Stoic Six Pack brings together the six essential texts of Stoic Philosophy: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragme...

Publisher: Wentworth PressIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsPublication date: 2016Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 5Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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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 ...

The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they tra...

Reducere. The tombs and graves of the St. Louis Cemeteries rise from the ground, creating labyrinthine memorials aptly dubbed "cities of the dead." Most are ...

Reducere. Stoic Six Pack brings together the six essential texts of Stoic Philosophy: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragme...

Reducere. In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and ...

Publisher: Prospect BooksAuthor(s): Shaun HillIllustration(s): 8 b&w illusNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 216 x 139 x 9Cover ...

Reducere. The seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers--oftentimes folks who were either already acqu...

Reducere. The Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare -- a portrait by a woman of an era dominated b...

Reducere. No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local booste...

DescriptionThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which...

Reducere. For award-winning science writer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast opens a door to deeper ties and insights. Watching a...

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Over nearly fifty years, the author has built up an extensive collection of memorabilia from the First and Second World Wars. This book looks at se...

The Victorian era saw huge technological advances in civil engineering and transport, mass urbanisation and social change, as well as still-treasur...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

There is a dark side to human nature that neither can be wished away nor completely mitigated. Ashley Franz Holzmann details just several of these ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. After the sudden death of her father, Dr. McMurry was unprepared for the intensity of grief that consumed her. She discovered that nothing in her m...

A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts.Publisher: Murdoch BooksAuthor(s):...

Reducere. This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...