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Chinese Songs in a French Key tells the extraordinary story of the birth, rebirth, and rich afterlife of Judith Gautier's…

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The Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and…

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Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the…

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In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and the…

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The Serpent's Tale traces the intricate global histories of Ku??alini, from its Sanskrit origins to its popularity in the…

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Hollywood's Others explores the affective ties between white, non-disabled audiences and the fascinatingly different stars…

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This book paints a fresh portrait of John Dewey as not only a reformer of schooling but also a profound theorist of human…

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Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around abandoned mines in South Africa, Unstable Ground…

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This book explores the politics of naming across American history, revealing the surprising ways parents' choices shed light…

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This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee,…

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In the years since Hurricane Katrina, modern-day bohemians have flocked to New Orleans but often find themselves skirting…

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Learning to Kneel locates noh drama's influence on American and European writers, dancers, and composers. Carrie J.…

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Produkt Why Civil Resistance Works - Chenoweth, Erica a Stephan, Maria zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia…

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In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive…

\nThis book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction…

\nHitchcock Annual volume 26 will include essays on Rebecca, and an expanded section of review essays on recent books on…

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This book tells the remarkable story of how a multistakeholder partnership in Indonesia fought dengue fever and explores the…

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Progress from the Margins is a groundbreaking international history of the struggle for recognition of disability rights at…

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Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." This book gives substance to the…

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Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the…

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Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political…

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The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial…

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A historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"…

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A. J. Bauer traces how decades of right-wing criticism of the "liberal media" reshaped US news culture and came to define…

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\nThis book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings.\n…

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The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a…

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Climate of Contempt offers a voter-centric, bottom-up explanation of national climate and energy politics, one that…

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Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.…

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

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Produkt Cinema of Agnes Varda - Benezet, Delphine zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

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This book examines how writers of the Republican era (1912-1949) came to recognize and respond to "information."…

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Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora Neale…

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This groundbreaking book shows that women's songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular turn to…

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The acclaimed philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of…

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States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to…

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The fourteen contemporary novellas and stories in Running Wild represent the best of new Chinese writers from China, Taiwan,…

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Lea David examines how artifacts of atrocities circulate and, in so doing, sheds new light on the institutions and social…

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This groundbreaking history of personal names in nineteenth-century Algeria sheds new light on the symbolic violence of…

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Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology…

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\nGuy Crosby offers a lively tour of the history and science behind the art of cooking, with a focus on achieving a healthy…

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

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Unlike other post-war sociologists, Norbert Elias has always held the concept of historical development among his central…

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

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

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Produkt Cinema of Aki Kaurismaki - Nestingen, Andrew zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

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In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the "black box" of North…