Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, Paperback - Susan Stanford Friedman

Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Su...

As the Cold War was ending and the Soviet Union collapsed, Louis Friedman traveled to Russia more than 50 times. Between 1984 and 2005, he worked t...

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Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncNumber of pages: 354Collection: Comparative PlanetologyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 192 x 234 x 2...

Finding herself at a crossroads and in need of a change from her job and domestic responsibilities, Helen Moat set herself the challenge of a lifet...

Shaping Modernity. The railway journey across two centuries - Radu Marza

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Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this b...

Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several o...

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Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly infl...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talal AsadOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Patricia DaileyIn The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the hi...

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Planetary Strength - a commentary on Morinus is an intermediate level astrological textbook on natal horoscope interpretation.

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The follow-up to Lewis's first childhood memoir, Just One More Day, this explores what happened after her mother died in 1960s Bristol, when she wa...

Reducere. By 1886 many of Eliza Jane McCully's neighbors are concerned that the growing immigrant Chinese population is threatening their comfortable way of ...

Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays ...

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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Great Torrington has changed and developed over the last century.

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Susan YoungIllustration(s): 6 Tables, black and white; 6 Printed music items; 6 Illustrations, black ...

Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the me...

Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and sett...

Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA)Illustration(s): 18 colour, 10 black and whiteNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2005Di...

The fourth in a collection of heliophysics texts, this book takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to explore what makes the condition...

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Publisher: Lantern Books, USAuthor(s): Camila (Camila Perussello) PerusselloNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 25Cov...