Introduces the reader to the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. This work develops…

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international and local…

Reporting on a project sponsored by the Association of American Universities, the author examines the core functions of the…

In this collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the…

Originally published in 1982, the author's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954) received wide critical…

A frank appraisal of the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa, this study explores…

Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical…

This study provides a fresh treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation,…

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of…

Known for their striking full-body tattoos, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than…

Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, this book points out that most explanatory…

Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue…

A survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the…

Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is regarded as one…

A study of Charles Seeger, who left his mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology and avant-garde…

Using case studies of prominent musicians and thoughtful analysis of interviews, music, film, and literature, this title…

Focuses on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of…

Offers an account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their…

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What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? Exploring the multifaceted and intensely complicated…

• Rok vydání 2012

First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to…

When this text was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The…

Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis,…

This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of Ballybran, a small village on the Dingle…

Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach…

The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural…

Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic…

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• Rok vydání 2004

Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in…

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and…

Offers an ethnography and a foray into the anthropology of morality. This book takes us on a journey into the lives of…

Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric…

Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as…

Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as…

An ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper…

Proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative…

Produkt Trump Paradox - Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul a Telles, Edward zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele University of…

"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."--Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University…

• Rok vydání 2000

By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade. Attentive to the structural,…

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and…

This is an illustrated study of the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase…

This text examines the social meanings of music as they have been shaped not only by hearing, but also by seeing music in…

• Rok vydání 2010

A collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and…

Introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. This book shows how reproductive…

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what…

• Latina

A comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early…

This volume includes previously unpublished essays by Robert Smithson and gathers articles, interviews and photographs as…