How Gender Shapes the World, Paperback - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book focuses on how gender in its many guises - Linguistic, Natural, Social - is reflected in human languages, how it features in myths and me...

A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language.

African Independence is a dynamic discussion of how Africa shapes world events today. Tukufu Zuberi weaves interview excerpts and stories from many...

As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious.What ma...

The highly-anticipated third instalment of Alexis Deacon's acclaimed Geis series.Publisher: Nobrow LtdNumber of pages: 216Collection: Curse of the ...

"Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Ge...

Reducere. In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne S rbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the pr...

Reducere. One of the nation's chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and a...

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. If you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their ico...

In Love, Sex & Tragedy Simon Goldhill lifts the veil on our inheritance of classical traditions and offers a witty, engrossing survey of the Greek ...

Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve - and how?Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere.

3-D shapesare timeless and classic.They cut quite a figure, being geometric.Yes, they are beautiful, simple and yet grand And they are the building...

Reducere. Ever wondered what nonbinary and gender nonconforming really mean? Or if it's grammatically correct to use they as a singular pronoun? In this char...

Contributor(s): Author: Ramesh SrinivasanA call to action to include marginalized, non-western communities in the continuously expanding digital re...

Reducere. Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete ...

Reducere. Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been performed off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. His films include H...

Contributor(s): Author: Andrew J. HoffmanThough the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue r...

Noted for its accessibility, this text--now revised and updated to reflect a decade of advances in the field--examines how attitudes and beliefs ab...

Reducere. What better way to learn shapes than with eye-catching works of art? With art from across Latin America and beyond, children will become armchair w...

With new chapters covering Zero Dark Thirty, Homeland, and Argo, this critically acclaimed book interrogates the nature and extent of the CIA's inf...

Reducere. 2014 Amelia Bloomer Top Ten ListDouble Victory tells the stories of African American women who did extraordinary things to help their country durin...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Bruce JonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 226 x 171 x 30Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farme...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Heba GowayedIllustration(s): 4 tables.Number of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 2...

Reducere. When Hope Edelman, author of the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters, became a parent, she found herself revisiting the loss of her moth...

Reducere. Redoing Gender demonstrates how difficult it is to be anything other than a man or a woman in a society that selectively acknowledges those two gen...

Reducere. What can you make with one oval, two circles, and eight triangles? Just ask three clever mice--who even find a funny way to trick a sneaky cat.Elle...

What if we could do the impossible and remove gender from the equation?

"The most interesting book ever written about Google" (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired techno...