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The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition (Revised), Paperback - Bernadette Roberts

262,99 RON 281,99 RON

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Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present, Paperback - Seyyed Hossein Nasr

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. AIslamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present offers a comprehensive overview of Islamic philosophy from the ninth century to the present day....

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Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare, Paperback - Steven C. Roach

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons...

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Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature, Paperback - Rafal K. Stepien

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been gra...

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Napoli/New York/Hollywood. Film between Italy and the United States, Paperback - Giuliana Muscio

295,99 RON

Napoli/New York/Hollywood investigates the work of Italian immigrant performers and the impact of the traditions of the Italian stage within the hi...

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The Ages of the World (1811), Paperback - F. W. J. Schelling

265,99 RON 284,99 RON

Reducere. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe's most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages...

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Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New York, Paperback - Stephen J. Riegel

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in th...

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Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle, Paperback - Marina Karides

275,99 RON 295,99 RON

Reducere. Imaginatively interweaving literatures across a variety of subjects, Sappho's Legacy identifies the crucial role that islands and Greek economic cu...

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Dogopolis. How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris, Paperback - Chris Pearson

182,99 RON

Dogopolis suggests a surprising source of urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.Publisher: The Universi...

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The Archaeology of Inequality: Tracing the Archaeological Record, Paperback - Orlando Cerasuolo

290,99 RON 311,99 RON

Reducere. The Archaeology of Inequality explores the different aspects of social boundaries and articulation by comparing several interdisciplinary approache...

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Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution, Paperback - Susan Dewey

199,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Susan DeweyAuthor: Tonia St GermainExplores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based pros...

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The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice, Hardcover - Barry C. Feld

632,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Barry C. FeldA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading experts The juvenile court lies a...

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A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs, Attributed to Al-Jahiz, Paperback - Al-Qadi Al-Quda'i

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40 H/661 AD), the cousin and son-in-l...

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The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop, Paperback - Kyra D. Gaunt

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kyra D. Gaunt2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finali...

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The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice, Paperback - Barry C. Feld

161,99 RON

DescriptionA major statement on the juvenile justice system by one of America's leading expertsThe juvenile court lies at the intersection of youth...

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Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?: The Twenty-First Century's Restrictive New Voting Laws and Their Impact - Michael A. Smith

742,99 RON 794,99 RON

Reducere. Since 2003, several US states have passed new laws that complicate the process of voter registration and voting. Framed as controls on voter fraud,...

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First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role, Paperback - Jeanne E. Abr

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first Fir...

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More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Paperback - Imani Perry

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Imani PerryFor a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial i...

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The Battle of the Negro Fort: The Rise And Fall Of A Fugitive Slave Community, Hardcover - Matthew J. Clavin

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the af...

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New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond, Paperback - Larry Simon

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues ve...

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Art Wars: The Politics of Taste in Nineteenth-Century New York, Hardcover - Rachel N. Klein

397,99 RON 425,99 RON

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

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The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State, Hardcover - David Stradling

302,99 RON 324,99 RON

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

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Masters of Mahamudra: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas, Paperback - Keith Dowman

305,99 RON 327,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith DowmanIn Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable un...

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The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair, Paperback - Lawrence Samuel

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. From April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from aroundthe world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that liveson in th...

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Taoist Meditation: The Mao-Shan Tradition of Great Purity, Paperback - Isabelle Robinet

275,99 RON 295,99 RON

Reducere. Isabelle Robinet's Taoist Meditation is the first and only scholarly study to discuss the ancient Mao-shan Taoist tradition of visionary meditation...

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Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World, Hardcover - Simon James Bytheway

232,99 RON

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

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The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 1896, Paperback - Sven Beckert

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglecte...

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Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World - David W. Orr

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness ...

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Education and the Soul: Toward a Spiritual Curriculum, Paperback - John P. Miller

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. Education and the Soul is the first book to comprehensively address how the soul can be nourished in educational settings. The book explores the na...

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Tao of Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentary, Paperback - Michael Lafargue

172,99 RON

In this new translation and commentary, LaFargue interprets the concept of "Tao" in the Tao Te Ching as a spiritual state of mind cultivated in a p...

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Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Nicholas Dagen Bloom

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

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The Thomas Indian School and the "irredeemable" Children of New York, Paperback - Keith R. Burich

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. The story of the Thomas Indian School has been overlooked by history and historians even though it predated, lasted longer, and affected a larger n...

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Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, Paperback - Philip Otterness

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palati...

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Toxic Schools. High-poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam, Paperback - Bowen Paulle

282,99 RON

From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the ch...

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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, Hardcover - John Harris

213,99 RON

A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States "Engrossing. . . . Astonishing...

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Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future, Hardcover - Carlos Garrido Castellano

749,99 RON 802,99 RON

Reducere. Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from appro...

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Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other, Paperback - Eric S. Nelson

291,99 RON 312,99 RON

Reducere. This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-p...

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The Challenges of Global Business Authority. Democratic Renewal, Stalemate, or Decay?, Hardback - ***

618,99 RON

Publisher: State University of New York PressIllustration(s): Total Illustrations: 5Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 164 x 237...

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Dark Night; Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind, Paperback - Christopher M. Bache

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. Argues that philosophical reflection today must include the findings of depth psychology and the critical study of non-ordinary states of conscious...

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Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace, Paperback - Stephanie Y. Evans

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to s...

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Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki, Paperback - Avram Alpert

250,99 RON 268,99 RON

Reducere. In Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki, Avram Alpert contends that scholars have yet to fully grasp the constitutive force ...

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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York, Paperback - Robert S. Grumet

115,00 RON

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few...

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Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Paperback - Shannon Sullivan

280,99 RON 300,99 RON

Reducere. Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on C...

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A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer, Paperback - Shuchen Xiang

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. In A Philosophical Defense of Culture, Shuchen Xiang draws on the Confucian philosophy of culture and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms...

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Between Camp and Cursi: Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative, Hardcover - Brandon P. Bisbey

745,99 RON 798,99 RON

Reducere. Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that ...

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The Fatah-Hamas Rift: An Analysis of Failed Negotiations, Hardcover - Gadi Hitman

743,99 RON 796,99 RON

Reducere. How did two national movements--which both share the same national ethos based on territorial and human elements and the same history--fail to reac...

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"Keep 'Em in the East". Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance, Paperback - Richard Koszarski

219,99 RON

Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, ...

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Manhattan Phoenix. The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York, Hardback - ***

229,99 RON

The Great Fire of 1835 nearly leveled Manhattan-consuming some 700 buildings-yet also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. Manhattan P...

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The Soft City. Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City, Paperback - Terry Williams

190,99 RON

In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects ...

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The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, Paperback - Stanislav Grof

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Here Grof presents a useful model of the psyche--a model extended by his thirty years of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is usefu...

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Christian Peoples of the Spirit: A Documentary History of Pentecostal Spirituality from the Early Church to the Present, Paperback - Stanley M. Burges

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. Among all groups in Christendom, the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement is second in size only to the Roman Catholic Church, with growth that shows n...

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Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, Paperback - Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...

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On Bicycles. A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City, Paperback - Evan Friss

155,99 RON

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles-and bicyclists-in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle's place in the city over ti...

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A Psychotherapy of Love: Psychosynthesis in Practice - John Firman

261,99 RON 280,99 RON

Reducere. This book shows what psychosynthesis looks like in the empirical practice of psychotherapy. Originally conceived by Italian psychiatrist Robert Ass...

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Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research, Paperback - Stanislav Grof

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. Summarizes Grof's experiences and observations from more than forty years of research into non-ordinary states of consciousness. This accessible an...

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Path to No-Self: Life at the Center, Paperback - Bernadette Roberts

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bernadette RobertsThis book shows how, once we have adjusted to the unitive state, the spiritual journey moves on to yet an...

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Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York, Paperback - Tony Michels

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the...

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Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools, Revised Edition, Paperback - Lois Weis

262,99 RON 281,99 RON

Reducere. Resting on the belief that educators must be at the center of informing education policy, the contributors to this revised edition of the classic t...

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We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Robert C. Smith

153,99 RON

DescriptionThis is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an opt...

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Pushing Back. Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City, Paperback - Ariella Rotramel

199,99 RON

Explores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushi...

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Kundalini: The Energy of the Depths, Paperback - Lilian Silburn

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. Kundalini's power lies dormant in humans until it is awakened. The awakened Kundalini expresses the primal divine impulse and ultimately joins the ...

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The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, Paperback - Annemarie Schimmel

299,99 RON 320,99 RON

Reducere. This is a book on Rumi's life, his poetry, his thought, and his influence. Rumi's work forms one of the pillars of the Sufi orders, particularly th...

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Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities, Paperback - William G. Tierney

250,99 RON

Relational sociology was conceived by theorists frustrated by what they viewed as an incomplete accounting of social reality. Torn between notions ...

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Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Paperback - Isabel Baca

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. Bordered Writers explores how writing program administrators and faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are transforming the teaching of w...

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Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms, Paperback - Janell Hobson

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

Reducere. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave. Given the gr...

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Quarantine!. East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892, updated edition, Paperback - ***

184,99 RON

At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering som...

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Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China, Paperback - Dongfeng Xu

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on t...

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Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought: Reading Strauss Outside the Lines, Paperback - Jeffrey A. Bernstein

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary t...

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Shadows in the City of Light: Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing, Paperback - Sara R. Horowitz

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers--Sarah Kofman, Patri...

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The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond, Paperback - Dale W. Tomich

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one an...

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