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Sustaining Loss. Art and Mournful Life, Paperback - Gregg M. Horowitz

191,99 RON

This book explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid fascination it holds for modern philos...

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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, Paperback - Sandra Kahn

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded,...

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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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Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States, Hardcover - John D. Ciorciari

479,99 RON

In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public servi...

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Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, Hardcover - Shahla Talebi

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. In this first-person memoir, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran.About author(s): Shahla Talebi was imprisoned in Ira...

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The Paranoid Chronotope. Power, Truth, Identity, Paperback - Frida Beckman

179,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Frida BeckmanNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 150 x 20Cover type: Paperba...

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The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, Paperback - Joseph Darda

156,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Joseph DardaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Post*45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21C...

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Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings: Second Edition, Paperback - Jean Baudrillard

185,99 RON 199,99 RON

Reducere. This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French...

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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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Making Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy, Paperback - Gary G. Hamilton

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. Beginning in the 1950s, Taiwan rapidly industrialized, becoming a tributary to an increasingly borderless East Asian economy. And though President ...

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A Guide to the Zohar, Paperback - Arthur Green

84,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a noto...

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Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails, Paperback - Christopher J. Coyne

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions. The call to assist those in need was heard around the globe....

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Political Grammars. The Unconscious Foundations of Modern Democracy, Paperback - Davide Tarizzo

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Sympathetic Consumer. Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture, Paperback - Tad Skotnicki

167,99 RON

What the struggle to make consumption ethical reveals about our world.

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Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King, Paperback - Audrey Truschke

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently ...

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The Logic of Practice, Paperback - Pierre Bourdieu

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BourdieuTranslator: Richard NiceOur usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primiti...

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Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude, Paperback - Adriana Cavarero

135,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Adriana CavareroTranslator: Adam SitzeTranslator: Amanda MinerviniIn this new and accessible book, Italy's best known femin...

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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, Hardcover - Sandra Kahn

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded,...

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Homo Sacer Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Paperback - Giorgio Agamben

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Daniel Heller-RoazenThe work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original phil...

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The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China - Xiaowei Zheng

159,99 RON

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

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Discreet Power: How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas, Paperback - Christina Garsten

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne S rbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the pr...

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Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm, Paperback - Giorgio Agamben

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Nicholas HeronWe can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is cu...

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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Hardcover - Noura Erakat

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe struggle for Palestinian sovereignty has been a quest for inclusion in-and recognition from-a world order that left them behind. Sov...

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The Prince of This World, Paperback - Adam Kotsko

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is a...

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Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America's Global War, Hardcover - Noah Coburn

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWar is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from m...

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Can One Live after Auschwitz?. A Philosophical Reader, Paperback - Theodor Adorno

212,00 RON

What took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity", the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. This...

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Revolutionizing World Trade. How Disruptive Technologies Open Opportunities for All, Paperback - Kati Suominen

183,99 RON

This book is about the next era of globalization and the trade policies that are needed to birth it.

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Art as a Social System, Paperback - Niklas Luhmann

215,99 RON

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not...

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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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Dialectic of Enlightenment, Paperback - Max Horkheimer

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Max HorkheimerAuthor: Theodor W. AdornoEditor: Gunzelin Schmid NoeriDialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most infl...

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Working the Night Shift: Women in Indiaas Call Center Industry, Paperback - Reena Patel

184,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Reena PatelRelatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in Ind...

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Neighborhood Tokyo, Paperback - Theodore C. Bestor

195,99 RON 209,99 RON

Reducere. In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geograp...

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Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities, Paperback - Siraj Ahmed

183,99 RON

For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the in...

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The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, Paperback - Jasper Bernes

134,99 RON

DescriptionA novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art...

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Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction, Paperback - Leland de la Durantaye

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. T...

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Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama, Paperback - Stephen Hilgartner

159,99 RON

Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate th...

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Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science, Paperback - Alicia Puglionesi

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. S ances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skep...

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Between Muslims. Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan, Paperback - J. Andrew Bush

151,99 RON

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Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza Under Egyptian Rule, Paperback - Ilana Feldman

167,99 RON

Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948...

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Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950, Paperback - Odd Arne Westad

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generatio...

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The Metamorphoses of Tintin: Or Tintin for Adults, Paperback - Jean-Marie Apostolides

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Herg ) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eig...

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Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating, Hardcover - Brooke Harrington

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and ...

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Partisan Aesthetics. Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization, Paperback - Sanjukta Sunderason

183,99 RON

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of late-colonial and postcolonial India, to foreground p...

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Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet, Paperback - E.J. White

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Dark Finance. Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe, Paperback - Fabio Mattioli

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Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution, Hardcover - Brett Gary

195,99 RON 209,99 RON

Reducere. A rich account of 1920s to 1950s New York City, starring an eclectic mix of icons like James Joyce, Margaret Sanger, and Alfred Kinsey--all led by ...

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The Fictions of Romantic Tourism. Radcliffe, Scott, and Mary Shelley, Hardback - George Dekker

479,99 RON

Romantic novelists Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley were keen tourists and influential contributors to the discourse of Romantic t...

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Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India, Paperback - K. Sivaramakrishnan

164,99 RON

Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence...

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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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Costly Democracy. Peacebuilding and Democratization After War, Paperback - Nora Roehner

199,99 RON

This book examines under what conditions peacebuilding can bring not only peace but also democracy to war-torn countries.

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

158,99 RON 170,99 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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Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay, Paperback - Amir Eshel

135,99 RON

Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical...

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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford, Paperback - Roland de Wolk

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. The rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor. American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a ba...

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The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power, Paperback - David M. Driesen

167,99 RON

Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans...

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

658,99 RON

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The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast, Paperback - Arkotong Longkumer

183,99 RON

The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking eth...

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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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The Art Firm. Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical Marketing, Hardback - Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

436,99 RON

This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the aut...

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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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Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, A'Iaek and Cavell, Paperback - Colin Davis

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"-Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavo...

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Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn. Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Paperback - Ethan Kleinberg

167,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ethan KleinbergNumber of pages: 248Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2021D...

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The Afterlife of Moses. Exile, Democracy, Renewal, Paperback - Michael Steinberg

179,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Michael SteinbergNumber of pages: 240Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 202...

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Engaging Violence. Civility and the Reach of Literature, Paperback - David Simpson

179,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): David SimpsonNumber of pages: 304Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2022Dim...

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Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought, Paperback - Adriana Cavarero

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contempora...

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Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation. University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act, Paperback - Arvids A. Ziedonis

159,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Arvids A. ZiedonisNumber of pages: 264Collection: Innovation and Technology in the World EconomyPubl...

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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press, Paperback - Eddy Portnoy

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating ...

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

141,00 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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Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, Paperback - Narges Bajoghli

135,99 RON

An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic. More than half of Iran's citiz...

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Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror, Paperback - Christopher J. Coyne

159,99 RON

The U.S. government's prime enemy in the War on Terror is not a shadowy mastermind dispatching suicide bombers. It is the informed American citizen...

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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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