Newly updated, a definitive guide for anyone who works with words has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create…

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Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences…

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Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight…

"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if…

Offers a critique of the standard approach to social research - namely, assessing the relative importance of causal…

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As ardent debates over creationism fill the front pages of newspapers, Genesis has never been more timely. And as Leon R.…

Focusing on the ways authors have traditionally responded to censorship, this is a collection of essays which attempt to…

In the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion…

This new edition of Lortie's classic work includes a new preface bringing the author's observations up to date. His study of…

Precocious, a poet, a philosopher's daughter, Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when Mircea Eliade came to…

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\nA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal…

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Produkt Politics of Resentment - Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker - Cramer, Katherine zakoupíte…

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Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including…

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Produkt "What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self" - Foucault, Michel zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele The…

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In "The Meaning of the Body", Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive…

"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the…

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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we…

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"Human Capital" is Becker's study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business…

"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that "The New Science of Politics" would be a best-seller by political…

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Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of…

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\nEsteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and…

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A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing,…

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For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence…

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John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian…

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Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended…

"Altogether it is a book that should be required reading for any student of music, be he composer, performer, or theorist.…

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Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as "man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika…

Much of what we know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a…

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This text analyzes Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical…

Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in…

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Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont…

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field.…

What is the opposite of freedom? The author answers this question with definitive force: slavery. Examining this overlooked…

In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined. However, the author of this study argues that…

The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and…

A study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned an era of scholarly inquiry. The author examines the structure…

Conquest of Abundance was prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at the author\'s death, working notes, lectures and…

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Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences…

\nExposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than…

The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of…

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Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us…

This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of…