We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote - or mouse - we can tune in to programming…

Offers a range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror. This title sketches…

Shows how Jane Austen became "Jane Austen". The author begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of…

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction…

Seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to…

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance. In this book, the authors…

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly…

First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston.…

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\nEngages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh…

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Second Edition, A Guide to Academic Publishing Success od výrobce The…

Produkt Stigma and Culture - Last-Place Anxiety in Black America - Matory, J. Lorand a Gibson, Thomas P. zakoupíte na…

In this final volume of his biographical trilogy, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years of Rousseau's life.…

This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of…

Presents an argument that postal network initiated cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for…

Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could…

Produkt Margins of Philosophy - Derrida, Jacques zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago Press.…

In this text, Mary Beth Rose argues that from the late 16th century to the late 17th century, a passive, more female, but…

Katharine Cramer Walsh shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger…

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE to 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero,…

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Kessler and McKenna convincingly argue that gender is not a reflection of biological reality but rather a social construct…

A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and…

Produkt Philosophy of Autobiography zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago Press.…

Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to…

Considers the liberal education that universities purport to offer, and proposes various ways to think about liberal…

Produkt Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism - Fischer, Michael zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of…

This work explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic Polish neighborhoods - the Back of the Yards and South Chicago.…

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? This…

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero,…