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Prehistories of the Future. The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism, Hardback - ***

863,99 RON

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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The Road to Jaramillo. Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science, Hardback - William Glen

778,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): William GlenNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 1982Dimensions: 164 x 238 x 32Cover type: Hardback...

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Points.... Interviews, 1974-1994, Hardback - Jacques Derrida

769,99 RON

This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary bre...

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Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil, Hardcover - Heather F. Roller

747,99 RON 800,99 RON

Reducere. Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their ...

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Metamorphoses of Tintin. or Tintin for Adults, Hardback - Jean-Marie Apostolides

735,99 RON

The Metamorphoses of Tintin, a pioneering book first published in French in 1984, offers a complete analysis of Herge's legendary hero.

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Inside Nuclear South Asia, Hardback - ***

735,99 RON

This book presents an analytical account of the causes and dangerous consequences of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.

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Cadres and Corruption. The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party, Hardback - Xiaobo Lu

718,99 RON

The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long hist...

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The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan, Hardcover - Hanan Toukan

708,99 RON 758,99 RON

Reducere. Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanction...

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Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research, Hardcover - Ashley T. Rubin

706,99 RON 756,99 RON

Reducere. The inclusive, flexible alternative to rigid traditional advice.About author(s): Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Univers...

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One Alliance, Two Lenses. U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era, Hardback - Gi-Wook Shin

701,99 RON

Using newly collected data from American and Korean newspapers, this book examines relations between the United States and South Korea from 1992 to...

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Controlling Immigration. A Global Perspective, Third Edition, 3 ed, Hardback - ***

701,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 190 x 267 x 29Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Pia Orrenius...

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Queer German Cinema, Hardback - Alice A. Kuzniar

701,99 RON

This ambitious and pioneering work rewrites German cinematic history queerly. It shows how, since the Weimar era, German cinema has played a leadin...

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Seabirds of the Farallon Islands. Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community, Hardback - ***

684,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 1990Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Robert J. Bo...

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China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order, Hardcover - Dawn C. Murphy

678,99 RON 726,99 RON

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

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Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition, Hardcover - Walter Benjamin

671,99 RON 719,99 RON

Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...

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Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine, Hardback - Chiara De Cesari

658,99 RON

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Democracy from Above?: The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms, Hardcover - Stephanie L. McNulty

658,99 RON

DescriptionPeople are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and U...

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Categorically Famous. Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America, Hardback - Guy Davidson

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Common Knowledge?. An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Hardback - Dariusz Jemielniak

658,99 RON

The first ethnography of Wikipedia's organization, governance, and power structure, Common Knowledge argues that many criticisms of Wikipedia have ...

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Now We Are Citizens. Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia, Hardback - Nancy Grey Postero

658,99 RON

The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of th...

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Becoming Visionary. Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses, Hardback - Eyal Peretz

658,99 RON

Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses is an examination of the logic governing the work of a major American artist...

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A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism, Hardcover - David H. Kamens

658,99 RON

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

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Whose Life Is Worth More?: Hierarchies of Risk and Death in Contemporary Wars, Hardcover - Yagil Levy

658,99 RON

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against thos...

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Inconvenient Generation. Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai's Edge, Hardback - Minhua Ling

658,99 RON

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic data collected from multi-sited field research, Ling's book traces the journeys of dozens of second-generation...

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Marked Women. The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela, Hardback - Rebecca G. Martinez

658,99 RON

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Rise and Fall of Urban Economies. Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles, Hardback - Taner Osman

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Familiar Futures. Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq, Hardback - Sara Pursley

658,99 RON

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Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care. The Art of Complicity and Resistance, Hardback - Mihaela Mihai

639,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Mihaela MihaiNumber of pages: 312Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2022Dim...

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Atomic Steppe. How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb, Hardback - Togzhan Kassenova

638,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Togzhan KassenovaNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 29Cover type: Har...

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Subject of Human Rights, Hardback - ***

632,99 RON

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Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-Regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality, Hardcover - Harland Prechel

632,99 RON

In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increas...

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Healing Labor. Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, Hardback - Gabriele Koch

632,99 RON

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that defin...

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Managing Multiculturalism. Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia, Hardback - Jean E. Jackson

632,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jean E. JacksonNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 27Cover type: Hardb...

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Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar - Neha Vora

624,99 RON

DescriptionTeach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Ed...

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South Central Is Home: Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles, Hardcover - Abigail Rosas

624,99 RON

DescriptionSouth Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depict...

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What Would Be Different. Figures of Possibility in Adorno, Hardback - Iain MacDonald

624,99 RON

At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, this book presents and examines Adorno's unusual concept of possibility and aims to answer ho...

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Somatic Fictions. Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture, Hardback - Athena Vrettos

624,99 RON

This book focuses on the centrality of illness-particularly psychosomatic illness-as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how il...

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Text Technologies. A History, Hardback - Claude Willan

624,99 RON

This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, for...

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#HumanRights. The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice, Hardback - Ronald Niezen

615,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ronald NiezenNumber of pages: 280Collection: Stanford Studies in Human RightsPublication date: 2020D...

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The Ethics of Staying. Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan, Hardback - Mubbashir A. Rizvi

615,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Mubbashir A. RizviNumber of pages: 224Collection: South Asia in MotionPublication date: 2019Dimensio...

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Profits, Priests, and Princes. Adam Smith's Emancipation of Economics from Politics and Religion, Hardback - Peter Minowitz

615,99 RON

In launching modern economics, Adam Smith paved the way for laissez-faire capitalism, Marxism, and contemporary social science. This book scrutiniz...

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Vendors' Capitalism. A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City, Hardback - Ingrid Bleynat

615,99 RON

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Whither Fanon?. Studies in the Blackness of Being, Hardback - David Marriott

615,99 RON

This book proposes a new and provocative reading of the clinical and political work of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist and revolutionary.

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Imagining the Nation. Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent, Hardback - David Leiwei Li

604,99 RON

This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique plac...

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Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar, Hardcover - Melila Hellner-Eshed

601,99 RON 644,99 RON

Reducere. A magisterial, modern reading of the deepest mysteries in the Kabbalistic tradition. Seekers of the Face opens the profound treasure house at the h...

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Translating Food Sovereignty. Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance, Hardback - Matthew C. Canfield

599,99 RON

An ethnographic analysis of the social movement challenging industrial food systems and re-imagining social justice within a shifting global legal ...

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Blinded by Sight. Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind, Hardback - Osagie Obasogie

598,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Osagie ObasogieNumber of pages: 287Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 30Cover type: Hardb...

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Copyright's Highway. From the Printing Press to the Cloud, Second Edition, Hardback - Paul Goldstein

598,99 RON

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Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security. From Pacifism to Realism?, Hardback - Paul Midford

598,99 RON

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security argues that Japanese public opinion matters and has acted to prevent overseas military deployments ...

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Lamentation as History. Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000, Hardback - Melissa L. Wender

598,99 RON

This book traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of minority identity within Japan's Korean community through its examination of their l...

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Taoism. Growth of a Religion, Hardback - Isabelle Robinet

598,99 RON

For many years, it was customary to divide Taoism into "philosophical Taoism" and "religious Taoism." The author has long argued that this is a fal...

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Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California, Hardcover - Sarah Gualtieri

590,99 RON

Los Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth centur...

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Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner, Hardback - Friedrich Nietzsche

581,99 RON

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Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative, Hardcover - Benjamin Harshav

581,99 RON

DescriptionThis book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the ...

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Western Privilege. Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai, Hardback - Amelie Le Renard

581,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Amelie Le RenardTranslator: Jane KuntzNumber of pages: 256Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublic...

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Haunting History. For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past, Hardback - Ethan Kleinberg

581,99 RON

This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alte...

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Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict, Hardcover - Lisa Blomgren Amsler

577,99 RON 618,99 RON

Reducere. Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legall...

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Civilization and Its Contents, Hardback - Bruce Mazlish

573,99 RON

Civilization is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Con...

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Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age, Hardback - Allen D. Boyer

571,99 RON

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his...

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The the Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991, Hardcover - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

559,99 RON 599,99 RON

Reducere. This collection studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining U.S.-Soviet rivalry in terms of the foreign policies of China, Japan, Nor...

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Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia, Hardcover - Zainab Saleh

546,99 RON

With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human s...

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Women, Privilege, and Power. British Politics, 1750 to the Present, Hardback - ***

537,99 RON

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

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Gender and the Modern Research University. The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865-1914, Hardback - Patricia Mazon

530,99 RON

In the 1890s, German feminists fighting for female higher education envied American women their small colleges. Yet by 1910, German women could stu...

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Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway, Hardcover - Mikiya Koyagi

514,99 RON 551,99 RON

Reducere. Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

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Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia, Hardcover - Arne L. Kalleberg

514,99 RON 551,99 RON

Reducere. Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia a...

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Ordinary Unhappiness. The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace, Hardback - Jon Baskin

513,99 RON

This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovatio...

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Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress, Hardcover - Alice Yang Murray

513,99 RON

This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World Wa...

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Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, Hardback - ***

504,99 RON

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

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Soap, Hardback - Francis Ponge

496,99 RON

In this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a ...

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From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico, Hardcover - Casey Marina Lurtz

479,99 RON

DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical f...

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