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

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Other Englands. Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition, Hardback - Sarah Hogan

444,99 RON

This book examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism, one that foreshadows the Enlightenment discourse of ...

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Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus, Paperback - Bernard Stiegler

183,99 RON

What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beg...

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The Story of Reason in Islam, Paperback - Sari Nusseibeh

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sari NusseibehIn The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a...

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Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Paperback - Alain Badiou

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alain BadiouTranslator: Ray BrassierIn this bold and provocative work, French philosopher Alain Badiou proposes a startling...

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Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, Paperback - Jean-Luc Marion

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Luc MarionTranslator: Jeffrey L. KoskyAlong with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of...

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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Paperback - Lerna Ekmekcioglu

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Followi...

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If God Were a Human Rights Activist, Paperback - Boaventura De Sousa Santos

105,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Boaventura De Sousa SantosWe live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer...

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The Figure of the Migrant, Paperback - Thomas Nail

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in reco...

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Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America, Paperback - Guy Davidson

199,99 RON

DescriptionThe first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of ...

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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution, Paperback - Priya Satia

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA rich and ambitious history reframing the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of the British empire, and the emergence of industrial c...

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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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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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Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Rhacel Parrenas

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rhacel ParrenasServants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their...

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A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Paperback - Warren Treadgold

330,99 RON 354,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Warren TreadgoldThis is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and th...

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The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition, Paperback (6th Ed.) - Robert J. Sharer

358,99 RON 384,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert J. SharerAuthor: Loa P. TraxlerThis book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a ...

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The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, Paperback - Robinson Jeffers

143,99 RON

Contributor(s): Editor: Albert GelpiAuthor: Robinson JeffersRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has p...

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The Consequences of Modernity, Paperback - Anthony Giddens

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modern...

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The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath, Paperback - Giorgio Agamben

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a continuation of Giorgio Agamben's investigation of political theory, which began with the highly influential volume Homo Sacer: Sove...

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Care Crosses the River, Paperback - Hans Blumenberg

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montai...

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Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice, Paperback - Jo Becker

159,99 RON

Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human righ...

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Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Paperback - Rosie Bsheer

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of a...

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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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Metaphysics: Concept and Problems, Paperback - Theodor Adorno

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysi...

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Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory, Paperback - Lambert Wiesing

118,99 RON

These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possi...

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Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic, Paperback - Katherine Mason

110,99 RON

In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)--...

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Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique, Paperback - Charles Rearick

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with i...

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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Paperback - Martin J. Sherwin

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American...

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Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy, Paperback - Vanessa L. Fong

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. The first generation of children born under China's one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their...

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Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past, Paperback - Jonathan D. Jansen

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. This book tells the story of white South African students--how they remember and enact an Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that yo...

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Color of Creatorship. Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans, Paperback - Anjali Vats

167,99 RON

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Failures of Feeling. Insensibility and the Novel, Paperback - Wendy Anne Lee

175,99 RON

This book examines the unexpected power of dispassion to incite the passions of sentimental literature, restoring the conversation between Enlighte...

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

199,99 RON

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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Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan, Paperback - Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripherie...

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The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons, Paperback - Carolyn J. Lesjak

183,99 RON

The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands,...

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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War, Paperback - Shay Hazkani

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

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The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, Paperback - Pierre Bourdieu

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field constitutes the de...

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Other Ways of Growing Old: Anthropological Perspectives, Paperback - Pamela T. Amoss

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. As anthropologists, we offer this book about aging in a wide variety of human societies in the hope of its making three contributions. First, this ...

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

615,99 RON

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

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges hav...

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Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism, Paperback - Mana Kia

183,99 RON

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic educat...

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Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, Paperback - Kim Beil

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with camera phones in hand and soc...

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Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality, Hardcover - Nancy Leong

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. In Identity Capitalists, legal scholar Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the re...

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Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France, Hardcover - Rachel Mesch

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

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Migranthood: Youth in a New Era of Deportation, Paperback - Lauren Heidbrink

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United Stat...

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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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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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The Lady of Linshui. A Chinese Female Cult, Hardback - Brigitte Baptandier

470,99 RON

This book is a detailed examination of a Chinese women's cult that confronts the dangers of pregnancy, childbirth, and childhood diseases.Publisher...

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Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move, Paperback - Rebecca Hamlin

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. Today, the concept of the refugee as distinct from other migrants looms large. Immigration laws have developed to reinforce a dichotomy between tho...

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Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's Family, Paperback - Kristin Stapleton

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin...

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Unfree. Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States, Paperback - Rhacel Salazar Parrenas

143,99 RON

Unfree is a book not about domestic work, but unfreedom and the experience of unfreedom in the 21st century.Publisher: Stanford University PressAut...

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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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Against Progress. Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age, Paperback - Jessica Silbey

199,99 RON

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jessica SilbeyNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 231 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

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Paletó and Me: Memories of My Indigenous Father, Paperback - Aparecida Vilaça

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and...

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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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The Border Within. Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin, Paperback - Phi Hong Su

164,99 RON

After border crossings, Vietnamese migrants in Berlin identify with the ethnic nation, but have transformed their commitments to ethnic nationalism...

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Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change, Paperback - Jun Jing

140,99 RON

Until recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situat...

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The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem, Paperback - St phane Mos s

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. In The Angel of History, Mos s looks at three Jewish philosophers--Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem--who formulated a new vis...

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Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms, Hardcover - Abbie Griffin

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly...

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In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast, Paperback - Sanjib Baruah

183,99 RON

In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." In...

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Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico, Paperback - M. Bianet Castellanos

151,99 RON

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal h...

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Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine, Paperback - Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Pal...

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Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan - Karl F. Friday

183,99 RON

Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of...

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Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume I: Theoretical Prerequisites, Paperback - Ronald W. Langacker

275,99 RON 295,99 RON

Reducere. This is the first volume of a two-volume work that introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic inv...

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Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army, Paperback - Kate Imy

167,99 RON

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army...

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Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past, Paperback - Ethan Kleinberg

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ethan KleinbergThis book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when avail...

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Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt, and Gesture, Paperback - Giorgio Agamben

95,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Adam KotskoWhat does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study,...

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Monolingualism of the Other Or, the Prosthesis of Origin, Paperback - Jacques Derrida

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques DerridaTranslator: Patrick Mensah"I have but one language--yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines th...

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