The Body Politic

The Not-So-Intelligent Designer. Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not, Paperback - Abby Hafer

200,99 RON

A witty and accessible dissection of the failure of Intelligent Design creationism, showing its inability to explain many basic features of human a...

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Sharia Law for Non-Muslims, Paperback - Bil Warner

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Bil WarnerSharia Law Islam is a political system with its own body of laws called Sharia. Sharia law is based on entirely d...

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The Inquisition: A Global History 1478-1834, Paperback - Francisco Bethencourt

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Inquisition was the most powerful disciplinary institution in the early modern world, responsible for 300, 000 trials and over 1.5 m...

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Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead, Paperback - James R. Martel

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is...

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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...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

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Careless Seamstress, Paperback - Tjawangwa Dema

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize ...

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Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics in New Mexico, Paperback - Paula Moore

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3: 00 on ...

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Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures. The Ethics of Becoming-Pig, Paperback - Joao Florencio

331,99 RON

This book analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised pat...

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Elusive Hero: A Vampire Queen Series Novel, Paperback - Joey W. Hill

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Vampires drink blood, they're superior to humans, and they're sexual Dominants. Every vampire knows those truths. A vampire's human servant is prop...

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Functioning Anarchy?, Hardcover - Nandini Sundar

171,99 RON

In a long and versatile career spanning thirty-five years, Ramachandra Guha has produced a vast body of work. Each time, he has broken new ground-h...

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It's... Just Private, Paperback - Shelby DeBause

70,99 RON 75,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shelby DeBauseAuthor: Ashley WrotonFor ages 3-9... Vibrantly colorful illustrations with interesting details keep children ...

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Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential, Paperback - Collin Hansen

62,99 RON

"A Christian without a church is a Christian in trouble." Since a global pandemic abruptly closed places of worship, many Christians have skipped c...

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If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 1-3. Tony Cokes, Hardback - Natasha Hoare

162,00 RON

DescriptionThe first monograph on the work of artist Tony Cokes, creating a visual cartography of a body of moving image work that spans twenty yea...

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The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, Paperback - Patricia Ticineto Clough

167,99 RON

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a vari...

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The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini, Paperback - Joel Martin

144,99 RON

In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America:...

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The Sultan's Seal, Paperback - Jenny White

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a...

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The Concept of Ordered Liberty and the Common-Law Due-Process Tradition: Slaughterhouse Cases through Obergefell v. Hodges (1872-2015) - Matthew W. Lu

875,00 RON

The Concept of Ordered Liberty is a story of due process from the common-law tradition. Told through Supreme Court cases against a backdrop of poli...

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History and Obstinacy, Hardcover - Alexander Kluge

263,99 RON

If Marx's opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when ...

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Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, Paperback - Mark Sealy

136,99 RON

Decolonising the Camera trains Mark Sealy's sharp critical eye on the racial politics at work within photography, in the context of heated discussi...

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Open Veins of Latin America, Hardcover - Eduardo Galeano

704,99 RON 754,99 RON

Reducere. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an o...

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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, Paperback - E. Patrick Johnson

183,99 RON

While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identiti...

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Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism, Paperback - Hannah Arendt

132,99 RON

Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual in...

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Man of the People, Paperback - Chinua Achebe

62,99 RON

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corrupt...

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The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University, Paperback - David Bleich

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materialit...

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Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City, Hardcover - Diana Montaño

407,99 RON 436,99 RON

Reducere. Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electroni...

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Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, Paperback - David G. Gutierrez

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCovering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico tr...

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The Financial Courts. Adjudicating Disputes in Derivatives Markets, Paperback - ***

239,99 RON

A wide-ranging study of derivatives market litigation that will be of interest to private lawyers, financial law specialists, practitioners, regula...

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Resolve in International Politics, Paperback - Joshua D. Kertzer

136,99 RON

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run...

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The Mystery of the Church: Applying Paul's Ecclesiology in Africa, Paperback - Fabrice S. Katembo

65,00 RON

The Pauline epistles are filled with beautiful and provocative metaphors for the church: it is a bride, a body, a flock, a temple. Each of these me...

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My Heart's in the Highlands, Paperback - Amy Hoff

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Suddenly the woman threw Jane facedown and was on top of her in an instant, covering her entire body. Jane was thrillingly aware of every place the...

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Notes from Underground, Paperback - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

31,99 RON

A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky's thoughts on political philosophy, r...

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What the Body Remembers, Paperback - Shauna Singh Baldwin

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the...

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Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making, Paperback - Fiona Buckland

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City. "Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and e...

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Richardson Scores Again: An Inspector Richardson Mystery, Paperback - Basil Thomson

79,99 RON

In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from ...

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Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire, Paperback - Melinda Snodgrass

100,99 RON

Edited by George R. R. Martin, the New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire from Melinda Snodgrass, c...

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Collected Body, Paperback - Valzhyna Mort

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. "Mort is a fireball. . . . Personal, political, and passionate, Mort's poetry will surely sustain many reading audiences. Highly recommended.""Libr...

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The (Un)Popular Vote, Hardcover - Jasper Sanchez

81,99 RON

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student'...

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Embodying Hope: Living in Difficult Times with a Difficult Past, Paperback - Sonia Connolly

122,00 RON

As trauma survivors living in times of political disarray and pandemic, we embody hope when we keep moving forward, one stubborn step after another...

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Stories to Read Aloud to Your Fetus, Paperback - Alina Stefanescu

118,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Alina StefanescuIn search of a new epistemology to address the fetus, poet Alina Stefanescu draws on her experience as an i...

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Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, Paperback - Tureeda Mikell

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Religion & Spirituality. Women's Studies. SYNCHRONICITY: THE ORACLE OF SUN MEDICIN...

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Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech, Paperback - Geoffrey Miller

83,99 RON 89,99 RON

Reducere. 'Virtue signaling' is the phrase that got popular on social media during the 2016 election as a way of derogating political opponents. But what is ...

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New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims, Paperback - Kazim Ali

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. From the Introduction: "The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range ...

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The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-Up: How a Little Newspaper Solved the Biggest Scientific and Political Mystery of Our Time, Hardcover - Ch

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to know the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic, you need to discover the reporting of Neenyah Ostrom.For a de...

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Bodies in the Tiber: An Ancient Rome Political Thriller, Paperback - II Davis, Vincent B.

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. After years of fighting on the battlefield, Sertorius returns to the city and family he fought for, to find them far different than he remembered.R...

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Global Corpse Politics. The Obscenity Taboo, Hardback - ***

684,99 RON

What makes a photograph of a dead body obscene? Auchter offers a genealogy of obscenity that argues this process is highly political. She explores ...

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Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body, Paperback - Barry R. Ziman

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. A legislative intern with secrets that could unravel the governing elite vanishes into the night in Albany, New York. Seven years later, another yo...

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Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century, Paperback - Daniel R. Brunstetter

319,99 RON

This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition. In...

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A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality, Hardcover - Gregory S. Parks

292,99 RON 313,99 RON

Reducere. Reveals the historical and political significance of "The Divine Nine"--the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his...

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Selected Poems, Paperback - James Fenton

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. Listen to what they did.Don't listen to what they said.What was written in bloodHas been set up in lead.--from "Blood and Lead"The leading poet of ...

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Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year of Water and Fire, Paperback - Zuraidah Ibrahim

188,99 RON

SCMP's reporting team looks back at Hong Kong's most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill pro...

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A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided America, Hardcover - Michael Carolan

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new real...

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Master Stress Management: Reduce Stress, Worry Less, and Improve Your Mood. Discover How to Stay Calm Under Pressure Through Emotional Resilienc - Der

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Overcome Chronic Stress And Regain Control Over Your Life With This Step-By-Step Guide Do you feel physically and emotionally drained even though y...

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The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics, Paperback - Niko Besnier

155,99 RON

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

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Burps from My Butt, Paperback - Marilyn Bricklin Lebovitz

74,99 RON

DescriptionWhen you're little, everything that happens in your body can be fascinating, confusing, and sometimes embarrassing, but the hilarious il...

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A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny

265,99 RON 284,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIt is the height of summer, and Armand Gamache and his wife are celebrating their wedding anniversary at an isolated, luxurious inn not ...

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Gilded Age Richmond: Gaiety, Greed & Lost Cause Mania, Hardcover - Brian Burns

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Richmond entered the Gilded Age seeking bright prospects while struggling with its own past. It was an era marke...

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Wobbly Bits and Other Euphemisms: Over 3, 000 Ways to Avoid Speaking Your Mind - John Ayto

69,99 RON

Wobbly Bits is the essential guide to polite conversation. Covering everything from the politically incorrect to the seriously taboo, this humorous...

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Swims, Paperback - Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

62,99 RON

DescriptionPlunge into mountain lakes and drift along meandering rivers in Swims, the debut poetry collection by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.A long poem...

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Leaves of Grass, Paperback - Walt Whitman

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. Resist much, obey littleThe Complete PoemsA work in progress through over four decades, Leaves of Grass contains poetry that spans the human elemen...

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The Monument Murders, Paperback - Rachel McLean

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. When a body is found draped over Swanage's iconic Globe monument, DCI Lesley Clarke is called in.A message points to the motive: Go Home.Is this a ...

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Om Child: I Am Kind: Ahimsa, Compassion, and Community, Board book - Lisa Edwards

57,99 RON 62,99 RON

Reducere. Yoga has many benefits as an ancient Indian mind-and-body practice, and it's never too early to start your little one! I Am Kind: A Gentle Introduc...

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Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching, Paperback - Aniket Jaaware

280,99 RON 300,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPracticing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, p...

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Dana Claxton, Hardcover - Dana Claxton

364,99 RON 390,99 RON

Reducere. On Dana Claxton's multimedia investigations of colonialism's destructiveness and the resurgence of First Nation cultureDana Claxton (born 1959) is ...

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Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit, Paperback - Charlie A. Beckwith

62,99 RON

The definitive insider's account of the U.S. Army's most elite and secretive special-ops unit, written by the legendary founder and first commandin...

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The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam, Paperback - James William Gibson

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions behind both liberal and conservative explanations for America's f...

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Disclosure 101: What You Need to Know, Paperback - David E. Robinson

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David E. RobinsonAuthor: Anna Von ReitzThe American Republic: The United States of America (major) = the united States of A...

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Irredenta, Paperback - Oscar Oswald

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the pastoral tradition. In Irredenta, Oscar Oswald raise...

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Of Cartography: Poems, Paperback - Esther G. Belin

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. One of our generation's most important literary voices, Esther G. Belin was raised in the Los Angeles area as part of the legacy following the fede...

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World History of Architecture, Paperback - Michael Fazio

251,99 RON

Updated with expanded coverage of twenty-first century architecture, this new edition uniquely comprises a detailed survey of Western architecture ...

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The Complete Poems of Michelangelo - Michelangelo

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThere is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his d...

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