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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian, Paperback - Lao Tzu

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A revolutionary archaeological discovery-considered by some to be as momentous as the revelation of the Dead Sea Scrolls-sheds fascinating new ligh...

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Philosophy of the Daodejing, Paperback - Hans-Georg Moeller

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The Chinese philosophical text the "Daodejing" offers insights concerning the cultivation of one's body. This book presents a description and analy...

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

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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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The Lives of Transgender People, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Susan (Pennsylvania State University) RankinIllustration(s): 20 illus.; 10 tablesNumber of pages: 24...

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The Ethical Soundscape. Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Charles (University of California) HirschkindNumber of pages: 288Collection: Cultures of HistoryPubl...

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Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary, Paperback - Chiara Bottici

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DescriptionBetween the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosoph...

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The Gentrification Plot. New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel, Paperback - Thomas Heise

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Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging "gentrification plot" in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict t...

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A Cultural History of the Soul. Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present, Paperback - Kocku von Stuckrad

190,99 RON

This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siecle Germany, Kocku ...

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Audio-Vision. Sound on Screen, Paperback - Michel Chion

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Presents a reassessment of the audiovisual media since sound's revolutionary debut in 1927 and sheds light on the mutual influences of sound and im...

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Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949, Paperback - Christopher G. Rea

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Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 is an essential guide to the first golden age of Chinese cinema. Christopher Rea reveals the uniqueness and comple...

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The Brain and Pain. Breakthroughs in Neuroscience, Paperback - Richard Ambron

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The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from...

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Parks for Profit. Selling Nature in the City, Paperback - Kevin Loughran

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Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical per...

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Women in the Mosque. A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice, Paperback - Marion Katz

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Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern an...

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The Digital Banal. New Media and American Literature and Culture, Paperback - Zara Dinnen

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Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

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The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China. From Dreamscapes to Theatricality, Paperback - Ling Hon Lam

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Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how...

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Lars von Trier Beyond Depression. Contexts and Collaborations, Paperback - Professor Linda Badley

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Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013-14), and The House That J...

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The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, Paperback - Vannevar Bush

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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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The Soft City. Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City, Paperback - Terry Williams

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In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects ...

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Staged. Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment, Paperback - Minou Arjomand

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Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American performances to reveal theater as a place for forms of judgment that are inad...

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When Good Government Meant Big Government. The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913-1933, Paperback - Jesse Tarbert

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The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the ...

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Let in the Light. Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions, Paperback - James Boyd White

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James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine's Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to re...

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Political Exercise. Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment, Paperback - ***

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Lawrence D. Brown presents five case studies of cities that have promoted active living with varying success through a range of approaches. He show...

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Antagonistic Cooperation. Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture, Paperback - Robert (Columbia University) O'Meally

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From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

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The Boundaries of Human Nature. The Philosophical Animal from Plato to Haraway, Paperback - Matthew (Chair, CSU Fullerton) Calarco

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Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. The Boundaries of Human Nature ...

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Kill the Documentary. A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars, Paperback - Jill Godmilow

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In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the co...

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

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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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China's War on Smuggling. Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965, Paperback - Philip Thai

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Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...

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Minjian. The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals, Paperback - Sebastian Veg

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Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian-unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people-intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed Ch...

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The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment. Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value, Paperback - Horacio Ortiz

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Horacio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing ...

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One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam, Paperback - Timothy Castle

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Reducere. One of the Vietnam War's most closely guarded secrets--a highly classified U.S. radar base in the mountains of neutral Laos--led to the disappearan...

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Essays on the Essay Film, Paperback - ***

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This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early c...

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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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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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Unmooring the Komagata Maru. Charting Colonial Trajectories, Paperback - ***

183,99 RON

Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komag...

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Environmental Rights Revolution. A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment, Paperback - David R. Boyd

183,99 RON

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

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Planning on the Edge. Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development, Paperback - ***

183,99 RON

Planning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver's reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vanc...

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Flawed Precedent. The St. Catherine's Case and Aboriginal Title, Paperback - Kent McNeil

183,99 RON

This illuminating account of the St. Catherine's case of the 1880s reveals the erroneous assumptions and racism inherent in judgments that would de...

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The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau, Paperback - Jack Nisbet

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Reducere. David Thompson is a hero in Canada, yet has remained largely unknown in the United States. Between 1801 and 1812, this fur trader, explorer, and ca...

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The Animal Rights Debate. Abolition or Regulation?, Paperback - ***

181,99 RON

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Robert (Professor, University of Leicester) GarnerNumber of pages: 288Collection: Critical Perspecti...

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Made in Censorship. The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, Paperback - Thomas Chen

179,99 RON

Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen exami...

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Worldmaking in the Long Great War. How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East, Paperback - Jonathan Wyrtzen

179,99 RON

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and...

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The Fragrant Companions. A Play About Love Between Women, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It...

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The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work. second edition, Paperback - Frederic G. Reamer

179,99 RON

Social work rests on complex philosophical assumptions that should be central to practice, education, and training. Frederic G. Reamer explores how...

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Gender and the Dismal Science. Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession, Paperback - Ann Mari May

179,99 RON

This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with e...

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Accidental Agents. Ecological Politics Beyond the Human, Paperback - Martin Crowley

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Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ...

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Salo Baron. The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book b...

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Make It the Same. Poetry in the Age of Global Media, Paperback - Jacob Edmond

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Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contem...

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Filming History from Below. Microhistorical Documentaries, Paperback - Efren Cuevas

179,99 RON

In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person...

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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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Securing Borders, Securing Power. The Rise and Decline of Arizona's Border Politics, Paperback - Mike Slaven

179,99 RON

Tracing how the issue of unauthorized migration consumed Arizona state politics from 2003 to 2010, this book provides new perspective on why policy...

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The Italian Invert. A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Emile Zola, Paperback - ***

179,99 RON

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described h...

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Generation Gap. Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture, Paperback - Kevin Munger

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Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

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The Naqab Bedouins. A Century of Politics and Resistance, Paperback - Mansour (BGU) Nasasra

179,99 RON

The Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the B...

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Experiments in Democracy. Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics, Paperback - Benjamin J. Hurlbut

179,99 RON

Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their cruc...

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Gendering World Politics. Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era, Paperback - J. Ann Tickner

174,00 RON

Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethn...

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Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality, Paperback - Jay Prosser

173,99 RON

Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women li...

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Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin, Paperback - Robert H. Ruby

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Reducere. Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla...

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America's Public Philosopher. Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy, Paperback - John Dewey

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John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey's public writings and shows how the...

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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, Paperback - Erica Chenoweth

170,99 RON

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in a...

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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods. Poetry in the Shadow of the Past, Paperback - William Logan

170,99 RON

William Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In thes...

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Mind Beyond Brain. Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal, Paperback - David Presti

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Neuroscientist David E. Presti, with the assistance of other researchers, explores how evidence for anomalous phenomena-such as near-death experien...

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Diagnostic System. Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled, Paperback - Jason Schnittker

170,99 RON

The sociologist Jason Schnittker looks at the multiple actors involved in crafting the DSM and the many interests that the manual hopes to serve. T...

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Portfolios of the Poor, Paperback - Daryl Collins

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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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Architecture Is All Over, Paperback - Esther Choi

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Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and ...

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Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, Paperback - Gareth Dale

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Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globaliza...

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Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency, Paperback - Santiago Zabala

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DescriptionThe state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory ...

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On Company Time. American Modernism in the Big Magazines, Paperback - Donald Harris

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On Company Time tells the story of American modernism from inside the offices and on the pages of the most successful and stylish magazines of the ...

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and other such stories - 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Paperback - Paulo Tavares

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Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, ...and other such stories extends the exhibition's core que...

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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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