• Rok vydání 2007

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

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

Describes the acceleration, deceleration, and inertial movement; fluid dynamics; and the motions of the earth, moon,…

• Rok vydání 2002

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

• Rok vydání 1992

In James Joyce's early work, as in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake", meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and…

• Rok vydání 1992

Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why…

• Rok vydání 2015

Kendo is the first book in English to provide an in-depth historical, cultural, and political account of the Japanese…

• Rok vydání 2007

The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of…

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

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing…

A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances but also through the director's control of…

Examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. This book…

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

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

Capitalism today commodifies and monetizes all aspects of our lives. Dale Chapman shows how, in the name of honoring art,…

• Rok vydání 2005

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions…

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

• Rok vydání 2009

"Alien Ocean" immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach:…

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

• Rok vydání 2017

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing…

Probes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems. Kniha 9780520024830…

• Rok vydání 1992

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

Dealing with rock mechanic research and practice, this work illustrates the power of numerical simulations to facilitate the…

The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work,…

• Rok vydání 2016

The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California…

• Rok vydání 2005

For anyone who wants to understand the full story that lies within a glass of wine, this book opens up the inner secrets of…

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

Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by…

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

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,…

• Rok vydání 2010

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

• Rok vydání 2011

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest…

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

This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first - seventh centuries AD) by focusing…

• Rok vydání 2008

Brought together by Winston F. Ponder and David R. Lindberg, thirty-six experts on the evolution of the Mollusca provide an…

• Rok vydání 2017

The "Treatise on Musical Objects" by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship…

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the author lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for…

• Rok vydání 1996

Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a…

• Latina

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

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

• Rok vydání 2008

This long-awaited work details major vintages from 2006 back to 1959 and includes thousands of recent tasting notes of top…

• 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…