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124 produkter
Wales As Is
Häftad, 2025
280 kr
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Wales As Is – a new collection of work by Magnum photographer David Hurn – offers a meditation on the national character of Britain’s smallest country. His subject is the geography, topography, history and landscape of Wales which he presents with unsentimental clarity, in his signature documentary …
The Pigmentary System
Physiology and Pathophysiology
Av James J. Nordlund, Raymond E. Boissy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
4412 kr
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Our knowledge about the function of the melanocyte has expanded beyond boundaries not previously imagined. The melanocyte is no longer considered merely a factory for the production of the pigment melanin. Old data do not contradict the new but must be reinterpreted in light of modern concepts of …
Religion, Theory, Critique
Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies
Av Richard King
Inbunden, 2017
1709 kr
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Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship …
Religion, Theory, Critique
Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2017
558 kr
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Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship …
Selling Spirituality
The Silent Takeover of Religion
Av Jeremy Carrette, Richard King
Inbunden, 2026
2516 kr
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Selling Spirituality offers a critical analysis of the rise of spirituality as a powerful commodity in the global marketplace. It shows how spirituality is big business, examining how spiritual discourses, practices, and institutions have been reshaped by neoliberal forces.This expanded second …
Selling Spirituality
The Silent Takeover of Religion
Av Jeremy Carrette, Richard King
Häftad, 2026
646 kr
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Selling Spirituality offers a critical analysis of the rise of spirituality as a powerful commodity in the global marketplace. It shows how spirituality is big business, examining how spiritual discourses, practices, and institutions have been reshaped by neoliberal forces.This expanded second …
Orientalism and Religion
Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"
Av Richard King
Inbunden, 1999
2516 kr
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Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be …
Orientalism and Religion
Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East"
Av Richard King
Häftad, 1999
649 kr
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Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be …
Selling Spirituality
The Silent Takeover of Religion
Av Jeremy Carrette, Richard King
Inbunden, 2004
2516 kr
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From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how …
Selling Spirituality
The Silent Takeover of Religion
Av Jeremy Carrette, Richard King
Häftad, 2004
620 kr
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From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how …
Religion and Violence in South Asia
Theory and Practice
Av John Hinnells, Richard King
Inbunden, 2006
2480 kr
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Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance? Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, this book explores the debate that has emerged in the context of secular modernity about whether religion is a primary …
Religion and Violence in South Asia
Theory and Practice
Av John Hinnells, Richard King
Häftad, 2006
736 kr
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Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance? Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, this book explores the debate that has emerged in the context of secular modernity about whether religion is a primary …
How Soon is Now?
The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975-2005
Av Richard King
E-bok, 2012
191 kr
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One of the most tangible aftershocks of Punk was its urgency to prompt individuals into action. Document your reality: do it yourself. From this, a generation of young men were inspired and, with often zero financial planning or business sense, in a bedroom, garage or shed, labels such as Factory, …
Brittle with Relics
A History of Wales, 1962–97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID KYNASTON'Fascinating.' OBSERVER'Powerful.' LITERARY …
Brittle with Relics
A History of Wales, 1962–97 ('Oral History at its Revelatory Best' David Kynaston)
Av Richard King
E-bok, 2022
206 kr
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Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID KYNASTON'Fascinating.' OBSERVER'Powerful.' LITERARY …
Original Rockers
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2016
153 kr
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A Times, Rough Trade and Uncut Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015.Original Rockers is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of the several years that Richard King spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records -- a business run from the heart rather than the …
Original Rockers
Av Richard King
E-bok, 2015
118 kr
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Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing. We live in an age when the most beautiful of recording formats, vinyl, is back in vogue and thriving. In the early 90s, with the march …
Lark Ascending
People, Music and Landscape in Twentieth-Century Britain
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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* A Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year *'Peerless cultural history.' Ian Thomson, Evening Standard'Original.' Guardian'Fascinating.' Mail On Sunday'Exceptional.' Irish TimesOver the course of the twentieth century, The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams is the piece of …
Lark Ascending
The Music of the British Landscape
Av Richard King
E-bok, 2019
88 kr
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Originally from Newport, Gwent, for the last eighteen years Richard King has lived in the hill farming country of Radnosrshire, Powys. He is the author of Original Rockers, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and How Soon Is Now?, both published by Faber.
How Soon is Now?
The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2017
192 kr
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'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' Daniel Miller, Mute RecordsOne of the most tangible aftershocks of punk was its prompt to individuals: do it yourself. A …
Travels Over Feeling
Arthur Russell, a Life
Av Richard King
Inbunden, 2024
344 kr
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A Mojo, Uncut and Rough Trade Book of the Year'An icon of New York's downtown music scene is brought vividly to life in this tapestry of archive and oral history' GuardianThe music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his …
Sino-Japanese Transculturation
Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War
Av Richard King, Cody Poulton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1610 kr
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This is a multi-author work which examines the cultural dimensions of the relations between East Asia’s two great powers, China and Japan, in a period of change and turmoil, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. This period saw Japanese invasion of China, the …
Band on the Bus
Around the World in a Double-Decker
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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When nine friends set out from England in 1969 to travel the world in a double-decker bus called ‘Hairy Pillock’, little did they know that they would become honorary citizens of Texas, hold the keys to New York, release a record in Australia, perform for the Shah and Empress of Iran, and appear on …
Wrestling with Life
From Hungary to Auschwitz to Montreal
Av Richard King, George Reinitz
E-bok, 2017
288 kr
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George Reinitz was twelve years old when he and his family were taken from Szikszó, Hungary, and deported to Auschwitz, where many of his family members were killed. As a boy on the brink of adolescence, he experienced the horrors of a Nazi death camp. Following his liberation he returned to his …
Wrestling with Life
From Hungary to Auschwitz to Montreal
Av Richard King, George Reinitz
E-bok, 2017
288 kr
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George Reinitz was twelve years old when he and his family were taken from Szikszó, Hungary, and deported to Auschwitz, where many of his family members were killed. As a boy on the brink of adolescence, he experienced the horrors of a Nazi death camp. Following his liberation he returned to his …
Global Goes Local
Popular Culture in Asia
Av Timothy J. Craig, Richard King
Inbunden, 2002
1185 kr
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Cheap mechanical and satellite transmissions have made apredominantly North American culture available to a global audience.Does this mean that rock 'n' roll, soap opera reruns, andprofessional wrestling will destroy Asian traditions and leave Asiannations to produce nothing but imitations of a …
Milestones on a Golden Road
Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80
Av Richard King
Inbunden, 2013
1282 kr
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In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presentspivotal works of fiction produced in four key periods of Chineserevolutionary history: the civil war (1945-49), the Great Leap Forward(1958-60), the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), and the post-Maocatharsis (1979-80). Taking its cues from the …
Party of Eros
Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2011
571 kr
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In this provocative study, the author treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War II. His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the nonpolitical background of today's radical social thought.A UNC …
Desiring Rome
Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti
Av Richard King
Häftad, 2020
775 kr
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Campus Wars
The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Av Kenneth J. Heineman, Richard King
Häftad, 1994
440 kr
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"At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges. His …
