Translating Worlds. Migration, Memory, and Culture, Paperback - ***

This international and interdisciplinary volume explores the relations between translation, migration and memory, and brings together humanities re...

In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates o...

Reducere. Working with new insights on the influence that Christian translations of Scriptures and catechisms into African languages had on cultural self-und...

Both clear-eyed and tender hearted, Two Trees Make a Forest is a profound and gorgeously written meditation on the natural and familial environment...

Reducere. In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rach...

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 41 Illustrations, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 29Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

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A relaunched 4th edition of this handy language and culture guide with a new layout to reflect the often humorous nature of the content.

Water presents the rich history of human interaction with water, from earliest agriculture to contemporary issues of water resources, global confli...

An engaging insight into the myriad ways coal has affected our lives.Illustrations: 99 illustrations, 76 in colour

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 230 x 160 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Keith ...

Reducere. DescriptionDisruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters such as Raven and ṣ -El...

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This wide-ranging book describes the importance, as well as the fragility of glaciers.

One hundred years after the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander of Macedon, we see the emergence of a new Iranian dynasty that, by 140 BC, ...

This book by conservationist Laurence Rose is about the complexity and vulnerability of nature, and the unexpected connections between people and w...

Publisher: Prospect BooksAuthor(s): Blandine VieIllustration(s): IllustrationsTranslator: Giles MacDonoghNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2011...

Written by internationally renowned experts, the Fourth Edition provides a complete introduction to the research process making it the perfect hand...

We may learn to utilize these great forces that lie within us all, and to utilize them to the best possible effect. As we use them they will grow, ...

Reducere. Great companies know that attracting and retaining the best people requires having a great business culture in place. Keith Hertling, a lifelong le...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Amit PinchevskiNumber of pages: 240Collection: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge seriesPublication date: 2022Dim...

Reducere. It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should ...

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Reducere. This book teaches children important facts about Nigerian culture using captivating illustrations. Take your child on an exciting discovery of Nige...

This anthology brings together chapters from astronomers, historians and writers who are inspired by the sky, and who originally gathered at the co...

Reducere. The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the...

The Essential Pocket Guide.Illustrations: 200

This is a revision of the long successful, short, illustrated cultural history of Japan, from its beginnings about 3000 BC to the present day, firs...

Reducere. Beginning with the most basic decisions facing fruit growers, this standard text takes the reader step by step through the various stages of fruit ...

Reducere. This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural quest...

Reducere. "A wonderful job So lucid, beautfully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China." --...

Reducere. Teton Sioux Music and Culture, Paperback

Alan Sokal, best-known for his role in the 'Sokal Hoax', here turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinform...

Two leading experts, one with a broad range of experience of institutional settings and cultures using psychodynamic, behavioral, and psychopharmac...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Ewan WhyteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. Leading in organizations working for justice is not the same as leading anywhere else. Staff expect to be treated as partners and demand internal p...

Reducere. Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shi...

DescriptionThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Wa...

Reducere. In Another Way of Seeing, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognitio...