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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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Revolutionary upheavals characterized China's twentieth century. Ying Qian studies documentary film as an "eventful medium"…

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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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Hannah Lucas explores the entanglement of illness and revelation in the writings of Julian of Norwich, illuminating the…

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

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

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Can grassroots interest groups ever win the wars they wage in the political arena against big business in America? This book…

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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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Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? This wide-ranging and comprehensive book shines a light on how false…

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

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In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing…

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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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Produkt Prison Notebooks - Gramsci, Antonio zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

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This anthology offers an introduction to New Russian Drama through plays that illustrate the versatility and global…

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Produkt Generation of Postmemory - Hirsch, Marianne zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

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Produkt Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons - Shirane, Haruo zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia…

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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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In his The Twenty Verses, the Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to…

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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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This analysis of the current economic situation in Africa describes the international and domestic political and social…

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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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Designed for independent learners and classrooms alike, this textbook offers an in-depth and immersive introduction to…

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

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This is the first English-language book to explore the rich and fascinating archaeological site of Tharros in western…

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

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Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how…

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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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Is immersion just another name for enclosure? In this groundbreaking analysis of virtual reality in Japan, Paul Roquet…

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

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

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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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Synthesizing a literature in ecology, this book addresses the theoretical and methodological relevance of scale within a…

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From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that…

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One of the important issues confronting moral and political philosophers is the question of justification. This book shows…

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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…