Based on fieldwork conducted between 1988 and 1996 with professional Bulgarian folk musicians, this book argues that the…

Produkt Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages - Le Goff, Jacques (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)…

A rigorous integration of phylogenetic hypotheses into studies of adaptation, adaptive radiation, and coevolution in…

Develops an understanding of rhetoric not only in its philosophical dimension but also as a means of guiding and conducting…

Produkt Salome and the Dance of Writing - Meltzer, Francoise zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of…

This title confronts questions of racial and gender discrimination. In a series of studies, Ian Ayres finds overwhelming…

This work traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Museum…

This study aims to teach the reader how to read and judge claims of authority made by others and how to decide to which…

This definitive compilation encompasses the breadth of Robert Merton's works, from the earliest to the most recent,…

Analyzes the events in 1993 that led to the death of 74 men, women and children in the Waco religious community in Texas.…

This collection of major essays spans Hortense Spiller's work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly…

The history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring periods of religious revivals or awakenings. This book…

Sigmund Koch (1917-1996) was one of the 20th century's most penetrating and wide-ranging critics of the scientistic…

What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? In this title, the…

Christopher Tyerman offers this book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades which focuses on the courtroom and…

Offers a rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an array of primary and secondary sources…

This work analyzes the music of Java and the development of the gamelan, an ensemble dominated by bronze percussion…

Although the two volumes of "Logic, Language, and Meaning "can be used independently of one another, together they provide a…

Produkt Philosophers Speak for Themselves: Berkeley, Hume, and Kant zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University…

This text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how…

A broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development, providing coverage of both theoretical and…

Produkt On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity - Buber, Martin zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University…

A collection of twelve essays that discuss the collective nature of language--the ways in which people coordinate with each…

Offers a views of rhetoric through the lens of modality, arguing that rhetoric's guiding interest in what is possible makes…

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on…

Produkt Coevolution of Life on Hosts - Clayton, Dale H. a Bush, Sarah E. a Johnson, Kevin P. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od…

Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, this book offers an evaluation and an original theory of…

Working in range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and…

From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel,…

Produkt Literature Incorporated - O'Brien, John (University of Virginia, USA) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The…

With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing timber and…

Shows how Quakers forged a paradoxical sense of their place in the world as militant warriors fighting for peace. The author…

Throughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all…

"There is no question that a well-defined 'Chicago School' of political economy has emerged, built largely around the work…

Produkt Critical Understanding - Booth, Wayne C. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The University of Chicago Press.…

In this second volume of the unparalleled exposition of Rousseau's life and works, Cranston completes and corrects the story…

In these twelve essays, written or published in the 1980s, a historical theologian examines the changes that occurred as the…

Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in…

A consideration of tenth-century Europe on the eve of the second millennium. Fichtenau offers a survey of all the main…

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What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? The author…

Kelly opens new questions about dialogue, colonial power, and changing conditions of political possibility by examining the…

Produkt Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism - Wright, Gwendolyn zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The…

Drawn from lectures given by Raghavan Narasimhan at the University of Geneva and the University of Chicago, this book…

Examines the theory and methods of quantitative genetics and presents case studies that illustrate the many ways in which…

The author was employed as consultant for the Islamic fundamentalist Shari'a Movement's project to unite Muslims and…

Arguing that parental actions are important sources of wealth inequality, this book examines the transmission of economic…

Employing a wide range of sources, the author examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the…

Distinguished scholar V. Y. Mudimbe assembles a lively tribute to "Presence Africaine," the landmark African studies journal…