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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This volume is the publication and analysis of the tomb of pharaoh Seneb-Kay (ca. 1650-1600 BCE), and a cemetery of associated tombs at Abydos, all...

Reducere. With 160 color photographs that invite the reader to step over the threshold, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive m...

Provides an account of the rebellion of the unprotected frontiersmen and the unfranchised artisans, who constituted two-thirds of the population in...

Contributor(s): Author: Eileen Hunt BottingFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educati...

Reducere. When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream...

Highlighting past research, recent discoveries, and open questions, The Future of Risk Management provides scholars, businesses, civil servants, an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip RawsonForeword by: Wayne Higby"It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear ...

In The Economy of Hope, hope becomes not only a method of knowledge but also an essential framework for the sociocultural analysis of economic phen...

The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examine...

Publisher: Florida State University, Museum of Fine ArtsAuthor(s): Museum of Fine ArtsNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 215 x 25...

Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these le...

Analyzes the stories in James Joyce's "Dubliners". This work examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing...

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to...

Energy Politics provides a broad introduction to the ways in which energy affects domestic and regional political developments.

Reducere. In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we r...

Michel Baridon traces the history of the most famous gardens in the world from their inception through the three centuries of eventful history that...

Examines the life of Catherine of Aragon, focusing on her personal possessions and the items she bequeathed to those she left behind, to better und...

In Transforming the Urban University, Richard M. Freeland reviews how Northeastern University in Boston, historically an access-oriented, private u...

Reducere. The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the w...

Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of Europea...

Reducere. Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this,...

Reducere. In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself." His ancestors, J...

Examining Byzantine architecture, Ousterhout identifies the problems commonly encountered in the process of design and construction.Publisher: Univ...

Reducere. Description: In a century that has taken us from the horse and buggy to the world wide web, science fiction has established itself as the literatur...

This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness...

Reducere. An unusual, searching, and poignant memoir of one man's quest to make sense of depressionGeorge Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known f...

Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current deve...

Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form explores how Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), a pioneering American modernist, further devel...

In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union--and its potential lack of a futur...

Reducere. At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding domi...

A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the flu...

Examines a series of linked case studies that not only highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing, including hoaxes, mira...

On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Emmanuel CooperEmmanuel Cooper's classic guide to making glazes is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition. Coope...

Reducere. From Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, and Cornelius Vanderbilt to Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates, with Madam C.J. Walker, Martha Stewar...

Reducere. What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts--and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading--are ...

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates th...