Interior Frontiers. Essays on the Entrails of Inequality, Paperback - ***

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Ann Laura (Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies,...

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If ineq...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: Donald A. CressNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1992Dimension...

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The western United States is a region of open space that has profoundly shaped the American character. In The Four-Cornered Falcon, Reg Saner explo...

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These essays are a significant contribution to understanding the failure of sustainable economic development and the armed conflict that it spawns ...

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Megan Black argues that the U.S. Department of the Interior, known for managing domestic natural resources and operating public parks, constantly s...

Reducere. Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibili...

Reducere. Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks bri...

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A collection of the essential works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. "The Confessions", regarded as the firs...

Description"Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: G. D. H. ColeJean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chai...

States cooperate to stem irregular migration flows, yet migration control agreements often result in widespread violations of the socio-economic ri...

"I've gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a mes...

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Reducere. This beautiful essay details the hidden causes of War and Lawlessness that is the ruin of great nations. Arthur's Essay is profound in its though a...

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This book analyses what generates the extreme inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies across the worl...

Reducere. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the very famous Fre...

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The stories behind the inequality crisis--a forty-year investigation by In These Times With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In The...

Reducere. A pivotal work in the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" puts forth many of the foundational ideas ...

A sensuous, richly nuanced collection of essays for intellectual and emotional survival in this fractious age.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdAuthor(s...

The articles compiled in this book discuss different aspects of the cultures and literatures of the Amazon, focusing not on its natural resources o...

After Identity. Three Essays on the Musicality of Life - Maria-Mihaela Grajdian

Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

DescriptionPhill Savidge is widely credited as being the main instigator of the Britpop music movement that swept the UK in the mid-1990s. Savidge ...

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Reducere. This volume rejects the notion that Islam's sacred text is error free and cannot be critically evaluated. The study of the Koran must develop and m...

Reducere. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronologica...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Louis DumontNumber of pages: 294Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 18Cover type: Pa...

When Green retired and went into seclusion he left his daughter, Deva, with everything that he had ever written--drafts of various manuscripts-- an...

The Haunting of Hill House has received both critical acclaim and heaps of contempt for its reimagining of Shirley Jackson's horror novel. This col...