This is a study of the "cowboys" of southern Brazil. It explores tradition, identity and change amongst the Gauchos in the…

• Rok vydání 2009

Centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?", this book explores the reliability of…

• Rok vydání 1997

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997.…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nThis groundbreaking book explains why and how so many people consume little or no news despite unprecedented abundance and…

\nA searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said\'s dislocated past and a…

\nSiddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path…

Written in the early eighth century, the Kojiki is considered Japan's first literary and historical work. A compilation of…

Exploring the impact of globalization on governance structures in the modern European political economy, this volume…

Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way.…

A cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together short stories by authors including Calvino, Garcia Marquez,…

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a…

Produkt Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran - Bulliet, Richard zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

This book examines the abolitionist and labor press, black power publications of the 1960s, the crusade against the…

Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the…

Explains the meaning and far-flung implications of the general theory of relativity and other mysteries of modern physics by…

• Rok vydání 2015

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Through a wide range…

\nThis groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the…

\nRamon Pacheco Pardo provides a groundbreaking analysis of South Korea\'s foreign policy from its transition to democracy…

\nAissatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African…

\nRichard John Lynn presents an English translation of the commentary on the \"I Ching\" written by Wang Bi (226-249), who…

Exploring culinary evolution and eating habits in a cornucopia of cultures from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and…

B n dicte Boisseron investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and…

Produkt Green Innovation in China - Lewis, Joanna I zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

Attempts to discern the role of personality in helping or hindering creative production. This book assesses the traits…

Produkt J. M. Coetzee and Ethics zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Columbia University Press.…

Produkt Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting - Friedlaender, Walter zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

Produkt Culture of the Book in Tibet - Schaeffer, Kurtis (University of Virginia) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best writings-both classic and previously unpublished…

A new edition of the groundbreaking book that took full measure of how Jews were imagined in Shakespeare's time.…

Unlike other post-war sociologists, Norbert Elias has always held the concept of historical development among his central…

\nCompiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as…

Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of the \"happiness agenda,\" revealing the flaws of its concept of…

• Rok vydání 2012

\nWriting Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American…

\nPaul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three…

\nIn his The Twenty Verses, the Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to…

Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book reveals the beach as a surprisingly…

This collection of original essays develops new, intertextual approaches to thinking about rock music.…

Produkt Living with the Dragon - Page, Benjamin (Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision Making, Northwestern University)…

Why are politicians often quick to dismiss professors as irrelevant, their undertakings purely 'academic', while scholars…

Produkt Unifying Hinduism - Nicholson, Andrew (Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook) zakoupíte…

This textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg which starred Marlene Dietrich, probes the…

Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection…