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American Resistance. From the Women's March to the Blue Wave, Paperback - Dana R. Fisher

116,99 RON

Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communi...

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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome, Paperback - Nessa Carey

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for th...

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Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Paperback - Peter Lee

271,99 RON

Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers pr...

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The Generation of Postmemory. Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust, Paperback - Marianne Hirsch

193,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Marianne HirschIllustration(s): B&W Illus.: 57, Number of pages: 320Collection: Gender and Culture S...

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Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, Paperback - S. B. Plate

155,99 RON

Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise...

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Reform Cinema in Iran. Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic, Paperback - Blake Robert Atwood

217,99 RON

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

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Closed Circle. Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, Paperback - Lorenzo Vidino

193,99 RON

The Closed Circle offers an unprecedented inside view into how one of the world's most influential Islamist groups operates. Lorenzo Vidino marshal...

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty. How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld, Paperback - Dominique Kalifa

170,99 RON

Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian d...

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Cook, Taste, Learn. How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking, Paperback - Guy, Ph.D Crosby

116,99 RON

Guy Crosby offers a lively tour of the history and science behind the art of cooking, with a focus on achieving a healthy daily diet. He traces the...

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Self-Improvement. Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Paperback - Mark Coeckelbergh

109,99 RON

This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic-and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission of social change in order...

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The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought. How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition, Paperback - Michael Hunter

217,99 RON

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other "Masters" of the Warring States ...

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Modern Management Methods - Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image, Paperback - Farzin Lotfi-Jam

232,99 RON

Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narr...

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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River, Paperback - Richard White

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneerin...

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Anxious Cinephilia. Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, Paperback - Sarah Keller

193,99 RON

The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a "cinephile." Sar...

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Entre Nous: Essays on Thinking-Of-The-Other, Paperback - Emmanuel Levinas

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evol...

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Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Paperback - Andrew Smith

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of...

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Revolution of the Mind, Paperback - Jonathan Israel

155,99 RON

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equalit...

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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Paperback - Seth Lerer

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of...

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Portfolios of the Poor, Paperback - Daryl Collins

170,99 RON

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard...

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Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard, Paperback - Jill Stauffer

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result o...

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The Habermas-Rawls Debate, Paperback - James Gordon Finlayson

217,99 RON

DescriptionJ rgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the secon...

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Religious Statecraft. The Politics of Islam in Iran, Paperback - Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

193,99 RON

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly...

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Futures Past. On the Semantics of Historical Time, Paperback - Reinhart Koselleck

217,99 RON

Explores the shifting perceptions and conceptions of historical time that have emerged over the past two centuries. This book argues that the past ...

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The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods, Paperback - Sun Zi

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Reducere. Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strat...

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Habits of the Heart, Paperback - Robert Bellah

186,99 RON

First published in 1985, Habits of the Heart continues to be one of the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a quest for a de...

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The Belle Epoque. A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond, Paperback - Dominique Kalifa

193,99 RON

The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture-the "Belle Epoque." Dominique Kalifa traces the maki...

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Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis, Paperback - Kenneth Waltz

170,99 RON

DescriptionWhat are the causes of war? How might the world be made more peaceful? In this landmark work of international relations theory, first pu...

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Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, Paperback - Daniel Loxton

116,99 RON

Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster...

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Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis, Paperback - Amy Allen

170,99 RON

Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance...

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Readings of Dogen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye", Paperback - Steven Heine

186,99 RON

The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo) is the masterwork of Dogen (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japa...

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Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream, Paperback - Clay Shirky

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company names Xiaomi (which means "little rice" in Mandarin) ...

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Cloud of the Impossible. Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement, Paperback - Catherine Keller

206,00 RON

A progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.

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Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures, Paperback - Deborah Cowen

207,99 RON

Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digit...

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Live Sustainably Now. A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life, Paperback - Karl Coplan

147,99 RON

Karl Coplan shares his personal journey of attempting to cut back on carbon without giving up the amenities of a suburban middle-class lifestyle. L...

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Marx After Marx. History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism, Paperback - Harry Harootunian

155,99 RON

Revisiting Marx's seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.

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Mother of a Mystic: The Life of Anna Columbia Heath Holmes, Paperback - Marilyn Leo

74,99 RON 80,99 RON

Reducere. Mother of a Mystic offers a unique opportunity to step back in time and peek into the windows of Anna Holmes' amazing life, learning about the moth...

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Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 2, Paperback - Qian Sima

391,99 RON 419,99 RON

Reducere. This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energet...

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The Inner Bird. Anatomy and Evolution, Paperback - Gary W. Kaiser

274,99 RON

Introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancest...

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Reading Our Minds: The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry, Paperback - Daniel Barron

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. What is psychiatry and how can we improve it? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ...

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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World, Paperback - David Hurst

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations--their function and their failure--both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five yea...

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Subconsciousness. Automatic Behavior and the Brain, Paperback - Yves Agid

147,99 RON

The neurodegenerative disease expert Yves Agid offers a groundbreaking and accessible account of subconsciousness and its significance. Shedding ne...

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Hollywood's Embassies. How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World, Paperback - ***

199,99 RON

Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and o...

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Claude McKay. The Making of a Black Bolshevik, Paperback - Winston James

179,99 RON

One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem R...

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In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony, Paperback - Darren Byler

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history Novel ...

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Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the WSANEC People, Paperback - Nancy J. Turner

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda present the results of many years of working with botanical experts from the Saanich Nation on southern Vancouver Is...

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Lonely Planet British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies. 9 ed, Paperback - Brendan Sainsbury

99,99 RON

Lonely Planet's British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what ...

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What Really Counts. The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy, Paperback - Ronald Colman

129,99 RON

What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits. R...

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Art and Posthistory. Conversations on the End of Aesthetics, Paperback - Demetrio Paparoni

109,99 RON

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about conte...

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The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, Paperback - Vannevar Bush

190,99 RON

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by...

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Conversion Disorder. Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis, Paperback - Jamieson Webster

167,99 RON

Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting mea...

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The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi, Paperback - Richard John Lynn

128,99 RON

Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the I Ching has been taken up by millions of English...

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The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries. Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them, Paperback - Donald R. Prothero

155,99 RON

In The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most important fossil finds and the in...

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The Urbanization of People. The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City, Paperback - Eli Friedman

199,99 RON

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

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Knowledge Worlds. Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University, Paperback - Reinhold Martin

217,99 RON

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

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Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia. The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, Paperback - ***

193,99 RON

This volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical ...

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Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State, Paperback - Kerwin Kaye

282,99 RON 302,99 RON

Reducere. In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have freque...

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At the Mercy of Their Clothes. Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture, Paperback - Celia Marshik

190,99 RON

At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik's study combines close readings of modernist and m...

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Art Cinema and India's Forgotten Futures. Film and History in the Postcolony, Paperback - Rochona Majumdar

217,99 RON

Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it antic...

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Making the Case. 2SLGBTQ+ Rights and Religion in Schools, Paperback - Paul T. Clarke

195,99 RON

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ stu...

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Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Life After Death, Paperback - Regina M. Janes

248,99 RON

DescriptionWhy is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most moder...

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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, Paperback - Anyi Wang

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, l...

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The Campbell Revolution?. Power, Politics, and Policy in British Columbia, Paperback - ***

223,99 RON

Assessing British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell's tenure and political legacy.Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressIllustration(s): 3 table...

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Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, Paperback - Alex Zamalin

155,99 RON

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

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Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity, Paperback - Andrew H. Fisher

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionShadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ances...

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Coastal Gardening in the Pacific Northwest: From Northern California to British Columbia, Paperback - Carla Albright

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Part how-to guide, part workbook, and part plant encyclopedia, Coastal Gardening in the Pacific Northwest: From Northern California to British Colu...

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I Am the People. Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today, Paperback - Partha Chatterjee

155,99 RON

Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "...

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Unsettling Utopia. The Making and Unmaking of French India, Paperback - Jessica Namakkal

193,99 RON

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia pre...

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Media Capture. How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News, Paperback - ***

193,99 RON

This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture-how formerly independent ...

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The Practice of Political Theory. Rorty and Continental Thought, Paperback - Clayton Chin

193,99 RON

Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that argues that that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for re...

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What Is Water?. The History of a Modern Abstraction, Paperback - Jamie Linton

239,99 RON

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.Publisher: University of Br...

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