• Rok vydání 2012

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

• Rok vydání 2017

Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when…

• Rok vydání 2018

"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."--Noam Chomsky"No…

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

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United…

The purpose of this book is to trace the main development in Greek philosophy during the period which runs from the death of…

• Rok vydání 2002

In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement…

• Rok vydání 1992

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in…

Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and…

• Rok vydání 1996

The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers,…

First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable…

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

• Rok vydání 1995

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and…

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

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

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or emotion work, just as we manage…

Analyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and…

• Rok vydání 2007

This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known…

• Rok vydání 2008

The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture - from "The Sopranos" to "Oprah", from the abundance of…

In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as…

• Rok vydání 2008

For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds,…

• Rok vydání 2025

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the…

• Rok vydání 2021

Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium…

• Rok vydání 2005

Reasonable Men, Powerful Words traces the development of political culture in twentieth-century Japan through a social and…

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

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

• Rok vydání 2010

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun,…

"A wide-ranging anthology of ethnopoetry including origin texts, visionary texts, texts about death, texts about…

More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights has a new and fully considered preface, in…

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

Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies…

• 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…

• Rok vydání 1997

This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people…

Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on…

This supplementary volume attempts to evaluate and simplify Pound's often bewildering work. It contains over 10,000 separate…

• Rok vydání 2013

The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a…

• Latina

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

• Rok vydání 2015

Explores recent scientific discoveries and what they reveal about the lives of wild parrots, which are among the most…

This work brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968 and 1975 respectively)…

• Rok vydání 2019

This set includes two essential resources for writers and editors: The Copyeditor’s Handbook, now in its fourth edition, and…

• Rok vydání 2007
• Čeština

When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work…

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings…

In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton…