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Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work…

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

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, D mons Are Forever is at…

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

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…

In "Poetic Closure", distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems…

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

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One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus" contains allegories of beasts, stones, and…

"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…

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Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and…

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of…

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"Dreamscapes of Modernity" offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by…

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Since its publication in 2007, "A Brief History of the Spanish Language" has become the leading introduction to the history…

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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…

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

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One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the…

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

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

An account of the experiences of Maitreyi Devi, the highly educated Indian daughter of an intellectual father who fell in…

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

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

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

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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As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Principles of Geology is a landmark in the history…

Famed in story as "the great leviathans" sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also…

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

A completely revised and updated edition of this standard anthology of medieval Latin, this work has been provided with 14…

• Rok vydání 2011

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

• Rok vydání 1992

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before…

• Rok vydání 1991

As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's "Principles of Geology" has never before…

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

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

David Gordon White excavates and seeks to centre within its broader Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval…

Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live…

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How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this…

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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits,…

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a…

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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that…

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Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the…