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13 produkter
Humanities for Humans
Clear Thinking on Challenging Issues
Häftad, 2025
480 kr
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Can the academic humanities serve the general public to address some of today’s most critical challenges? This unusual volume builds on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," curated by Irene Kacandes and funded by the De Gruyter Foundation and the New York nonprofit 1014: Space for …
Daddy's War
Greek American Stories
Häftad, 2012
232 kr
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When she was very young, Irene Kacandes knew things about her father that had no plot, no narrator, and no audience. To her childhood self these things resembled beings who resided with her family, like the ancestresses who'd thrown themselves off cliffs rather than be taken by the Turks, or the …
Talk Fiction
Literature and the Talk Explosion
Häftad, 2001
445 kr
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Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you—the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this innovative, multidisciplinary work, Irene …
Let's Talk About Death
Asking the Questions that Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die
Av Steve Gordon, Irene Kacandes
Häftad, 2015
240 kr
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Experts in end-of-life care tell us that we should talk about death and dying with relatives and friends, but how do we get such conversations off the ground in a society that historically has avoided the topic? This book provides one example of such a conversation. The coauthors take up …
On the Run in Occupied Poland
Tales of a Refugee Childhood
Av Grażyna Gross, Irene Kacandes
Inbunden, 2026
1374 kr
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Fleeing Soviet-occupied Vilnius in 1940, a girl and her parents arrive in German-occupied Poland. This child's-eye account brings wartime and refugee experiences vividly to life.On the Run in Occupied Poland presents the daily wartime experiences of a Polish-Catholic girl. Written as an adult by …
On the Run in Occupied Poland
Tales of a Refugee Childhood
Av Grażyna Gross, Irene Kacandes
Häftad, 2026
401 kr
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Fleeing Soviet-occupied Vilnius in 1940, a girl and her parents arrive in German-occupied Poland. This child's-eye account brings wartime and refugee experiences vividly to life.On the Run in Occupied Poland presents the daily wartime experiences of a Polish-Catholic girl. Written as an adult by …
Eastern Europe Unmapped
Beyond Borders and Peripheries
Av Irene Kacandes, Yuliya Komska
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, …
Eastern Europe Unmapped
Beyond Borders and Peripheries
Av Yuliya Komska, Irene Kacandes
E-bok, 2017
335 kr
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Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, …
Eastern Europe Unmapped
Beyond Borders and Peripheries
Av Irene Kacandes, Yuliya Komska
Häftad, 2019
543 kr
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Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, …
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence
Häftad, 2021
630 kr
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This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect …
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence
E-bok, 2021
649 kr
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This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect …
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence
E-bok, 2021
635 kr
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This book offers to academic and general public readers timely reflections about our relationships to violence. Taking cues from the self-reflexivity, themes, and subject matters of Holocaust, queer, and Black studies, this large group of diverse intellectuals wrestles with questions that connect …
User's Guide to German Cultural Studies
Av Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
562 kr
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The German-speaking world has spawned some of the most extreme contrasts between products of culture--the endlessly fascinating, if clichéd, Beethoven-Hitler dichotomy--and thus provokes compelling questions about culture and identity. A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies is an invitation to …
