• Rok vydání 2018

A collection of brief lives of prominent scientists, from Darwin to Crick to Goodall. Kniha 9780226569901 Dreamers,…

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\nA down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis.\n…

• Rok vydání 2019

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health…

In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the…

• Rok vydání 1997

In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the…

This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the…

Stimulating, provocative, often infuriating, but well worth reading.--Peter Newman, Economica His critical blast blows like…

Provides a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. The authors…

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really” like? What makes it different from other ways of…

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• Rok vydání 2015

Produkt How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind - The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality - Erickson, Paul a Klein, Judy L. a…

• Rok vydání 2011

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of…

When it was first published in 1992, "The Beginnings of Western Science" was lauded as the first successful attempt to…

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• Rok vydání 2012

Offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over…

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\nInspired by Virgil\'s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.\n…

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, "The Gang" is one of the first academic studies of…

• Rok vydání 1995

The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French…

• Rok vydání 2017

"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it…

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences…

• Rok vydání 2001

It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information…

This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and…

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of…

• Rok vydání 2015

Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race,…

• Rok vydání 2018

Rejecting the view that racial differences in educational achievement are a product of innate or cultural differences, Darby…

• Rok vydání 2018

Piper shows how we can use data in digital humanities to learn more about the texts under consideration, making use of the…

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful…

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in…

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• Rok vydání 2024

Produkt Shakespeare's Once and Future Child - Campana, Professor Joseph zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The…

• Rok vydání 2020

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a…

Looks at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering an evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty.…

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From leading cetacean biologists, an up-to-date, comprehensive collection exploring advancements in our understanding of…

• Rok vydání 1992

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny.…

The livre d' artiste, or "artist's book," is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse was one of the…

• Rok vydání 2000

The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, "Against Method," stemmed from Imre Lakatos's…

• Rok vydání 2014

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobad trees and…

In "The Birth of Purgatory," Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned "Annales" historian, is concerned not…

• Rok vydání 2011

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few…

What is the place of materiality-the expression or condition of physical substance-in our visual age of rapidly changing…

Harlem is one of the most famous neighbourhoods in the world - a historic symbol of both black cultural acheivements and of…

• Rok vydání 2016

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through…

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major…

• Rok vydání 1993

In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding…

• Rok vydání 1994

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our…

One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure…

• Rok vydání 2011

"The Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel, "the Politics", is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas…

• Rok vydání 1999

Does Descartes belong to metaphysics? What do we mean when we say "metaphysics"? These questions form the point of departure…