Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention, Paperback - Michael Wilson Becerril

Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence. Through...

Reducere. ** A New York Times Bestseller ** A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-rangin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael DelmanDo you do too much for your kid out of fear they will never make it in the world without your oversight? Are ...

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and ...

Reducere. The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and American...

DescriptionFor her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teac...

Reducere. In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Paige SweetNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 23Cover type: Pape...

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Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

DescriptionThis thrilling critique of the forces viying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connec...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

This book explores why anti-militarists resist, considers the politics of different tactics and examines the tensions and debates within the moveme...

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turne...

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Mammon, Phelps uses contemporary critical theory, continental philosophy, and theology to develop a radical reading of...

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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements acros...

A radical re-assessment of the post-modern study of musicPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): James R. CurrieIllustration(s): 21 music exx...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Douglas MullikenIllustration(s): 29 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: World CinemaPublication ...

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View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right d...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expr...

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro? This book, by a former British diplomat in Pari...

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and auto...

The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, tru...

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and auto...

Reducere. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Philippe Le (Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, UK) GoffNumber of pages: 272Publication dat...

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's miss...

In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in ...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

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Although Managing to Nurse may contradict contemporary beliefs about health care reform, the insiders' account that it provides is undeniable evide...

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imper...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth EllcessorNumber of pages: 272Collection: Postmillennial PopPublication date: 2016Dimension...

DescriptionFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin....

A study of the music video.

Reducere. The way we talk about living beings can raise or lower their perceived value. Consider the pro-life strategy of calling a fetus a child, thereby ef...

This edited volume examines asymmetric conflict dynamics through the politics of recognition vis-a-vis armed non-state actors. It explores a divers...

DescriptionDuring the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for thos...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Iris Marion YoungNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 23Cover type: Pa...

A mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engag...

Wilhelm Furtw ngler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His ...

The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these ruling...

Reducere. Separating FACT from FICTION in the COVID-19 EpidemicPeople are afraid. COVID-19 has upended our lives as it poses new medical dangers, economic su...