• Rok vydání 2019

One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this 800-year-old saga narrates the legendary exploits of the…

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• Rok vydání 2025

Since the explosion of the buzzword "globalization” in academic and public discourse more than thirty years ago, theoretical…

It was 1976—twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner…

• Rok vydání 2013

This booklet provides the answers to the exercises in Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition by Donald J. Mastronarde, (UC…

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

• Rok vydání 2021

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With…

• Rok vydání 2023

Provides an introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social…

Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over…

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• Rok vydání 2015

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

Following on the success of her books on Brunello di Montalcino, renowned author and wine critic Kerin O'Keefe takes readers…

In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events - Bangladeshi garment factory…

Examining a shocking array of fraud, corruption, theft, and embezzlement cases, this vivid collection reveals the practice…

This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western…

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology,…

To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit…

S. D. Goitein's magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an…

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Published posthumously in the early 1920's, Max Weber's Economy and Society has since become recognized as one of the…

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international and local…

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of…

An essay that outlines a perspective for the study of leadership in administrative organizations. It was written in the…

When this text was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The…

Discusses such matters as the generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic…

Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as…

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

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

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and…

This text examines the social meanings of music as they have been shaped not only by hearing, but also by seeing music in…

Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on…

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

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

Gives student and instructors the comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek. This title features: readings…

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