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A collection of essays, which examine the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such contemporary…

Explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern.…

Examines the Buddhist priest Kukai's influence on Japanese culture. This book contends that the importance of Kukai's…

Here at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With…

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Reflects the history of Jazz and explores race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a city.…

A collection of twenty-five essays which explore the place of the stage within the larger society, as well as issues of…

Questions our approach to the study of consciousness and the way modern discoveries either mirror or contradict…

A deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s.…

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of delayed childbirth, shares the impressions of people born to older parents,…

This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu…

What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion? What is opera's…

Ranging from the self-consciously avant-garde to the pornographic, web-based writing has introduced innovative forms,…

Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time. This work explores what has changed in our understanding of evil,…

Shows how Cixous and Djebar consistently reclaim for ethical and political purposes the demarcations and dislocations…

Sees the Salafi movement as a recent conception of Islam projected back onto the past and its purist evolution as a direct…

Produkt Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing - Malabou, Catherine (Professor Of Modern European Philosophy, Centre for Research…

In the tradition of Ruskin and Arnold, here's a witty, elegant essay on the contemporary academy by a renowned teacher,…

Designed to help students make better taxonomic judgments, this case book contains exercises and case studies which describe…

Drawn from a series of lectures that Wm Theodore de Bary delivered in honor of the Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi, this book…

The preeminent Western authority on Japanese literature a presents a collection of personal essays and literary vignettes…

The democratization of luxury, Twitchell contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times.…

With an ethnologist's understanding of construct and practice, Marc Auge proves age is unrelated to the development of…

These fragments outline a rudimentary theory of political order modeled on the natural world that recognizes the role of…

Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being…

The strategic and political implications of an already-nuclear rogue power.…

Reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. This title argues that the work…

The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino…

Tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value…

Analyzes the forces behind India's role as a world economic player and identify the weaknesses that, if unaddressed, may…

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Incorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine light on the symptoms and behaviors of…

Produkt Reforming the International Financial System for Development zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia…

In a hard-hitting book that refutes conventional wisdom, Katherine Sender explores the connection between the business of…

Produkt Terrorism and Counterintelligence - Mobley, Blake zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

Produkt Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency - Smith, M.L.R. (King's College London) a Jones, David…

Grounded in an exploration of logic and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human…

While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have…

Produkt Transnational Social Work Practice zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

Top international scholars assess Pakistan's politics and economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military…

The development of an American science establishment began early in the twentieth century when the federal government began…

Challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious…

Aarthi Vadde shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of…

Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan follows a newly independent oil-rich former Soviet republic as it adopts a…

Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and…

Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book…

How Much Inequality Is Fair? synthesizes concepts from economics, political philosophy, game theory, information theory,…