A translation of The Lotus Sutra which has been regarded as one of the illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon.…

The first book to recount the full story of U.S. covert operations in Laos during the Vietnam war. Based on newly…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nFabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of \"gastronativism,\" the ideological use of food to advance ideas…

Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides…

\nIn The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most…

\nIn Chronos, a leading French historian ranges from Western antiquity to the Anthropocene, pinpointing the crucial turning…

A well-informed portrait, part social critique, part memoir, of sexual mores and homosexuality in provincial Mexico.…

Produkt In Love and Struggle - Jolly, Margaretta (Centre for Continuing Education at The Sussex Institute, University of…

This treatise asks whether the Germans of today should continue to atone for the sins of their forbears, and argues that…

The Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history.…

Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historicist ideas, Kowaleski-Wallace suveys eighteenth century…

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors…

This book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement, which, organized largely by housewives, led to the passage…

What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan's…

\nIn this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an…

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Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone's contributions to mainstream cinema, independent…

Todd A. Finkle provides striking new insights into Warren Buffett's career through the lens of entrepreneurship. This book…

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Amy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its…

\nOne of the most influential commentaries on the Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, for the past thousand years has…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nJulia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns…

Hollywood and cultural institutions worked together to insure their own survival and profitability and to provide a…

This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world…

The first book to treat issues of race and ethnicity as related to noir, offering a cultural history of twentieth-century…

This study explores the passion with which Victorian male writers and artists gave meaning to the myth of Perseus and…

This study explores the patterns of international conflict and co-operation in four geographical subsystems: the Horn of…

A book on the role of gender in international relations.…

This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's…

Figures such as E M Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink…

One of the most distinguished filmmakers of the French new wave.... [de Baecque and Herpe] pull off the high-wire act of…

Ernst Junger, one of twentieth-century Germany\'s most important and controversial writers, faithfully kept a journal during…

\nIn this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the “black box” of…

Hitchcock Annual, volume 23, includes essays on Hitchcock\'s use of silence in his films, civilians at war in his World War…

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Bernard E. Harcourt calls for moving beyond the complacency of decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical…

\nBuried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to…

An account of the capture of Lisbon in 1147 by the combined forces of King Alfonso Henriques of Portugal and a fleet of…

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Produkt Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy - Jones, Donna (Assistant professor, University of California at Berkeley)…

Produkt How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook - Cai, Zong-qi a Cui, Jie zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia…

Explores the how and why of anthropomorphism. This book investigates the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across…

Produkt Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language - Hamilton, John (Professor, Harvard, FAS Department of Comparative…

Nancy Miller explores the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. She also mounts…

Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers both in his novels and his…

\nEviane Leidig offers an in-depth look into the world of far-right women influencers, exploring the digital lives they…

• Rok vydání 2016

A bold defense of a neglected concept and its relevance for critical social theory.…