Through combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much "produced" by…

For this study, Bell held interviews with over 100 of Childerley's residents, exploring their perspectives on class, gender…

By tracing the evolution of gay life and identity in San Francisco, Elizabeth Armstrong explores how the social movement has…

This bilingual edition contains an introduction to the three major periods of the troubadours - their beginning, rise, and…

How do politicians manage the flood of information from a wide range of sources? How do they interpret and respond to such…

Includes contributors that explores how the institutions and practices of education can support democracy, by creating the…

Produkt Saints and Society - Weinstein, Donald a Bell, Rudolph M. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of…

The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had a direct impact on research in the biological and social…

-In this study of complex beliefs in which Aztec religion and Spanish Catholicism blend, Lafaye demonstrates the importance…

Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, this book reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise the…

Recognizing that the humanities have engaged many of the important intellectual currents of the last twenty-five years in…

Published posthumously, this book offers insight into Plato's text "Laws".…

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the…

This study describes the daily existence of the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, who present a challenge to…

In this volume, Haack includes the complete text of "Deviant Logic", as well as five additional papers that expand and…

Historically Nicaragua has been mired in poverty and political conflict, yet the country has become a model for the…

Highlighting the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature, this text…

In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory. They seek to determine whether, when given…

This portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students. It…

In this study of sexuality, desire, the body and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of…

This volume collects W.E.B. Du Bois' sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The selections include discussion on the…

Mr. Friedrich develops his own position within the framework of the history of Western legal philosophy from the Old…

Represents T.S. Eliot as the complex figure, an artist attentive not only to literature but also to detective fiction,…

Provides a theoretical foundation for empirical analysis on the connection between the quality of government and important…

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American…

Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, this text recounts and compares a vast range…

Drawing on ideas from political science, sociology and psychology this text explores how three sets of political…

This study is the story of writing from its beginnings to its recent transformations through technology. The author shows…

Produkt Political Tolerance and American Democracy - Sullivan, John L. (University of Minnesota) a Piereson, James a Marcus,…

Interprets and pairs two important Platonic dialogs, the Gorgias and the Phaedrus, illuminating Socrates' notion of rhetoric…

Offers an analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. This book looks specifically…

A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets…

Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians",…

Produkt Photography, Trace, and Trauma - Iversen, Margaret (University of Essex) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The…

How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. In this book,…

Draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to…

Reveals how "Oriental" tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the…

While much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not…

Offers an argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation of their views, but can be understood…

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings…

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, 'gay pride' has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political…

Presents a fresh look at an ancient question, bringing it into contemporary relief. This volume offers a comprehensive…

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political…

Produkt Brushstroke and Emergence - Herbert, James D. (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od…

Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that…

Produkt American Girls in Red Russia - Mickenberg, Julia L. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of…

Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, particularly in the field of genetic engineering. But the public has not had much to…

This text responds to the idea that American civic institutions are hard pressed, and growing cynical and disconnected from…