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This book presents a wide array of warrants and methodologies for comparison to improve explanations of historical change in…

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Assatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African…

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Staple to Superfood explores the sweet potato's rich history and remarkable global influence, from the Americas to Europe to…

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The West identifies four basic tastes-sour, sweet, salty, and bitter. Yet in East Asia, a fifth taste-umami-has entered the…

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Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the…

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This neglected Greek satire is now available in English. Basing their translation on two critical editions of the…

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This book takes a fresh perspective on building an effective civil service by documenting and analyzing the implementation…

\nThis groundbreaking book is an incisive and comprehensive analysis of Harun Farocki’s oeuvre, shedding new light on his…

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Examines the Hudson River School artists' practice of creating thematically related pairs and series of paintings. This…

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In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic's insight and a fan's enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to…

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Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as the…

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At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap.…

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• Čeština

The Story of the Stone is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. This book is a straightforward guide to…

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Based on an original survey from Baghdad alongside key interviews in the field, this book offers an insightful account of…

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• Rok vydání 1987

Utilizing the strengths of traditional ethnographic approaches, the authors of this provocative volume of original essays…

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Contains the translations of over 200 poems written by Saigyo (1118-1190), one of Japan's most influential traditional…

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The Remarkable Madame Pandit is the definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990), India's greatest modern…

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Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a…

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Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian…

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Focuses on Yathong Nature Reserve, where three species of kangaroo - red, eastern grey, and western grey - overlap and…

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In this groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated critical study, Joseph McBride provides insightful and revealing essayistic…

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Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this…

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Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. Clifford traces how a power company…

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

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Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book reveals the beach as a surprisingly…

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In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly…

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In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development,…

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This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of…

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Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojve's works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation…

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Ora Szekely draws on sources including in-depth interviews, conflict data, and propaganda distributed through social media…

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The authors put forward their own concept for the interpretation of international relations, describing how progress occurs…

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Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book…

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Summarizing what he has learned about crime and criminals during his long career, Frederic G. Reamer speculates about the…

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• Rok vydání 1985

Produkt Film Sound zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

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Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume One, this abridged introductory collection offers…

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Produkt Slash-and-Burn Agriculture zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

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Produkt Emergence of Animals - Mcmenamin, Mark A. S. a McMenamin, Dianna zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia…

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The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation offers a comprehensive and surprising picture of the Earth at that ancient time. The…

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Fear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction's origin and development over the past three decades,…

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• Angličtina

The transcript of Alain Badiou’s year-long seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this book offers a…

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Explores the shifting perceptions and conceptions of historical time that have emerged over the past two centuries. This…

\nDavid O. Dowling critically examines how podcasting and its evolving conventions are transforming reporting—and even…

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The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies…

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The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren…

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Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an…

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Produkt Nomadic Theory - Braidotti, Rosi (Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Utrecht University) zakoupíte na…

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Through the lens of Chinese food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity,…

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The "Maratha period" of the 17th and 18th centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is…