Persistence, Paperback - Kristie (University of Sydney) Miller

Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. This Element considers sev...

"Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet it is difficult to reconcile the way we seem to experience time with many of the theorie...

Ivan the Terrible Dragon was written for the Author's husband, Ivan, and their son, Ivan Dale. Ivan the Terrible Dragon is a children's book where ...

Originally published in 1991, Snowbird Cherokees has since inspired a documentary of the same name and remains the only ethnographic study of Snowb...

Reducere. The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African continent. The third edition of this history o...

The Persistence of the Negative offers an original and compelling critique of contemporary Continental theory through a rehabilitation of the negat...

New edition of a book that has been widely regarded as the definitive guide for parents of children with Down syndrome.

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture an...

Reducere. The Montana Cree is a study of religion as a sustaining force in American Indian life. On the small Rocky Boy reservation in northern Montana, the ...

Reducere. The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny. To that end, it use...

An Element on the role of violence in the traditional religions of the Pacific Ilands (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) and on violent activity...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kristi Brown-MontesanoIllustration(s): 37 music examplesNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2...

The idea that physical death may not mark the end of an individual's existence has long been a source of fascination. Whether, and how, one can exi...

Crucial to successful experiments in ecology is their logical planning and design. This book, first published in 1996, shows how to harness the pow...

Reducere. Written by anthropologist Dianne Johnson, Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia has been in demand since its publication in 1998. It is a record of t...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

Reducere. The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Comm...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Bear F. (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio ...

Over a span of 1000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution,...

Contributor(s): Author: Cynthia EnloeFor over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by ...

Reducere. Animal Dreams collects David Brooks' thought-provoking essays about how humans think, dream and write about other species. Brooks examines how anim...

Reducere. In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ance...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth J. PfeifferNumber of pages: 246Collection: Medical AnthropologyPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Publisher: Sydney University PressIllustration(s): 86 Maps; 1 Tables, color; 33 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, color; 166 Illustrations,...

Reducere. Have you ever spoken unkindly to yourself? Do you even realize when you do? Are you ready to make changes but find yourself completely paralyzed by...

Reducere. Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual a...

Looking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led...

For this first dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters, diaries, and other documents still in...

Reducere. 1. Time 6: 55 2. Blood 7: 13 3. Keep It In The Family 7: 08 4. In My World 6: 24 5. Gridlock 5: 16 6. Intro To Reality 3: 23 7. Belly Of The Beast ...

Reducere. Fishing is one of the most popular sports in Oklahoma, a state that boasts over 1, 000 square miles of water. Now Fishes of Oklahoma, the only comp...

Reducere. A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the United States that highlights underrecognized activistsMarking the centenary of the ratific...

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 world we live in is hugely unequal. People in a better socioeconomic position do not only lead more comfortable lives, but also longer and heal...

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoe...

Residue: The Persistence of the Real presents recent work by artists whose work seeks to reconsider or redefine perceptions of the real. Produced i...

Reducere. Some Kind of Perfect is the 5th book in the Calloway Sisters Series. Falling in love was just the beginning. The conclusion to the epic ten-book se...

Place-based cultural knowledge - of ceremonies, songs, stories, language, kinship and ecology - binds Australian Indigenous societies together. Ove...

Reducere. Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times descri...

Reducere. Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of th...

Reducere. Against all odds, one man chooses life. This is his remarkable story.This groundbreaking work invites us on a heartfelt journey from tragedy to tri...

Reducere. Â Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates o...

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond eco...

Reducere. The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, speculation about the origins of the...