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To Be Equals in Our Own Country. Women and the Vote in Quebec, Paperback - Denyse Baillargeon

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To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this funda...

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Dinosaurs: The Textbook, Paperback - Spencer Lucas

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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day, Paperback - Byrne R. S. Fone

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The End of Children?. Changing Trends in Childbearing and Childhood, Paperback - ***

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This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child rais...

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Sources of East Asian Tradition, Volume 2: The Modern Period, Paperback - Wm Theodore De Bary

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The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature, Paperback - Victor Mair

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Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty, Volume 1, Paperback - Qian Sima

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

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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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From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Thought, Paperback - Karl Lowith

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Real Power to the People. A Novel Approach to Electoral Reform in British Columbia, Paperback - R. B. Herath

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Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): R. B. HerathNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

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Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York, Paperback - Lawrence Kaplan

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Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

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What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What's Trending in Canadian Polit...

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1795 to the Present, Paperback - Norman Davies

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Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty, Paperback - Qian Sima

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Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, Paperback - Jeffrey B. Perry

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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, Paperback - Stanley Hordes

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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Wm Theodore de Bary

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For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

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Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century. The Hierarchy of Energy, Paperback - Howard Odum

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Introduces the concepts of emergy and transformity. This book presents the natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbo...

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Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II, Paperback - Yoshiaki Yoshimi

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Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading, Paperback - Felix Salzer

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-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkAbout the AuthorThe late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York,...

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Hitchcock's Films Revisited, Paperback - Robin Wood

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The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses, Paperback - Chakravarthi Narasimhan

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Reducere. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvati...

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Class ACT: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins, Paperback - Cholly Atkins

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

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The Political Economy of Resource Regulation. An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015, Paperback - ***

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This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressIll...

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After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, Paperback - Edward Said

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Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'a'isha Bint ABI Bakr, Paperback - D. A. Spellberg

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In this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a cent...

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Production Power and World Order. Social Forces in the Making of History, Paperback - Robert Cox

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In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

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

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

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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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How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang, Paperback - Zong-Qi Cai

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DescriptionHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Ta...

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The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known, Paperback - Christopher Bollas

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Writing the Hamat'sa. Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance, Paperback - Aaron Glass

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Writing the Hamat sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, ...

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Film Sound. Theory and Practice, Paperback - ***

266,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressNumber of pages: 462Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 228 x 149 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

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Kukai. Major Works, Paperback - Kukai

259,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): KukaiTranslator: Yoshito (THE AWAKENING OF FAITH) HakedaNumber of pages: 303Collection: Translations...

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The Kristeva Reader, Paperback - Julia Kristeva

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Reducere. An easily accessible introduction to Kristeva's work in English. The essays have been selected as representative of the three main areas of Kristev...

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Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life, Paperback - Axel Honneth

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Chushingura (the Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play, Paperback - Donald Keene

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

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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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American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler, Paperback - Wai-Chee Dimock

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DescriptionAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the maki...

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The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, Paperback - Bashir Bashir

248,99 RON

DescriptionIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked witho...

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Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting, Paperback - David P. Celani

248,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): David P. CelaniNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 13Cover type: Paper...

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Philosophy of the Mozi. The First Consequentialists, Paperback - Chris Fraser

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

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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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The Impossible David Lynch, Paperback - Todd McGowan

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DescriptionTodd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's tale...

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The Tales of the Heike, Paperback - Burton Watson

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Reducere. The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, ...

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Film Studies, Second Edition: An Introduction, Paperback - Ed Sikov

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Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciat...

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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Paperback - Jon Hale

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

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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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When Good Drugs Go Bad. Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada's Drug Laws, Paperback - Dan Malleck

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This intoxicating look at the history of drug regulation in Canada reveals how a variety of social and political forces converged at the turn of th...

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

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Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan, Paperback - Burton Watson

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Hunters and Bureaucrats. Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon, Paperback - Paul Nadasdy

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A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Sout...

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Film, a Sound Art, Paperback - M Chion

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French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise—it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The a...

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Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste, Paperback - Ole Mouritsen

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In the West, we have identified only four basic tastes--sour, sweet, salty, and bitter--that, through skillful combination and technique, create de...

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Preparation of the Novel, Paperback - R Barthes

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Subtitled, Lecture Course At The Collcge De France (1978-1979). Completed just weeks before his death, Barthes describes his intention to write a n...

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Corsairs of Saint-Malo. Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime, Paperback - Henning Hillmann

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Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local net...

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Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea. Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday, Paperback - Ksenia Chizhova

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The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the ...

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Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society, Paperback - Zahra M. S. Ayubi

232,99 RON

DescriptionIslamic scriptural sources offer potentially radical notions of equality. Yet medieval Islamic philosophers chose to establish a hierarc...

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The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction, Paperback - Mingwei Song

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DescriptionA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions...

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

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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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Philosophies of Happiness: A Comparative Introduction to the Flourishing Life, Paperback - Diana Lobel

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What does it mean to be truly happy? In Philosophies of Happiness, Diana Lobel provides a rich spectrum of arguments for a theory of happiness as f...

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Psychiatric Casualties. How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War, Paperback - Professor Charles Figley

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The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental heal...

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Critique of Bored Reason. On the Confinement of the Modern Condition, Paperback - ***

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In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such think...

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The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria, Paperback - Jason Oddy

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DescriptionOf all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in ...

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Confucianism and Sacred Space: The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today, Paperback - Chin-Shing Huang

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Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent s...

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To the End of Revolution. The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959, Paperback - Xiaoyuan Liu

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The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu d...

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At Home and Abroad. The Politics of American Religion, Paperback - ***

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At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international, bringing together di...

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