Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement, Paperback - Michelle Mary Lelwica

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michelle Mary LelwicaWhat happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel,...

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Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. Bodies for Battle is the first in-depth analysis of the US Army's particular set...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - e...

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*** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***It's time to do things differently.Trust your team. Be radical...

Where did the custom of duelling originate, and why did it spread so quickly all over Europe and the Americas?Illustrations: 30 b&w illus

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joseph (University of Ulster, UK) McBrinnIllustration(s): 16 colour and 71 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Why did people choose the Reformation? What was in the evangelical teaching that excited, moved or persuaded them? Andrew Pettegree tackles these q...

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Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

An exploration of China's Communist Party as a cultural rather than a political entity, defining the experience of a fifth of humanity.

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Saree MakdisiIllustration(s): 17 b-w photos, scatteredNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 202...

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This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black li...

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"God's eternal plan for us involves our body. We can't write off our physical life as spiritually irrelevant." --Sam Allberry There's a danger in f...

How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to pen...

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This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors...

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The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

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