Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity. A Global Archaeological Perspective, Paperback - ***

Cutting-edge research on personal ornaments from archaeological contexts around the world.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumb...

The Construction of Identity in Saul Bellow's and Philip Roth's Major Novels - Anca Popa

Collecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine t...

Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the net...

Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as a security issue. But how exactly is 'security' understood? McDonald identifies different accounts o...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

Embraces reproductive justice for all women, but challenge mainstream legal and political solutions based on protecting free choice via neutral gov...

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 ...

As we interact online, we create new kinds of community and knowledge. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as so...

An exploration of the impact of institutionalization in the lives of Canadian families.

Buildings can shape our lives, improve our health, and transform society. Academic histories of architecture and medicine overlook the importance o...

DescriptionIs it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might suc...

The groundbreaking examination of the construction of sexual identity -- now updated to reflect the latest research.Why do some people prefer heter...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Roland EnnosNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farm...

Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Daniel MendelsohnHailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves togeth...

Although The "Malleus" is recognized as an important medieval text, as a source it presents difficulties of contextual understanding and cannot be ...

This book presents the history of Amman's development under the rule of the British mandate from 1921-46 and illustrates how the growth of the Angl...

Reducere. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912-1992) has attracted...

Reducere. A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem--including human evolution and the rise and fall o...

From the trials of Oscar Pistorius to O. J. Simpson and Michael Jackson, this innovative book provides a critical review of 11 high profile crimina...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: Advances in Experimental PhilosophyPublication date...

This book assesses the significance of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by examining the logic of international power and order, his...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Anthony FontenotNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 186 x 251 x 23Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Sabrina EllebrechtNumber of pages: 300Collection: Political SciencePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 2...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jay Timothy Dolmage In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth ce...

Advanced media technologies have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. This title explores how Muslim-Arab ...

Reducere. How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and Americ...

This book presents a new exploration of an ancient European Druids, people who could foretell the will of the gods and who left revealing archaeolo...

This account reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. It explores the mu...

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco's historical coverage is remarkably thorough a...

Publisher: Epfl PressAuthor(s): Roberto GargianiNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 253 x 176 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Based on a purpose-built 45-million-word corpus, this book offers timely and original linguistic insights into how the UK press report on mental he...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Argui...