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Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Av Bron Taylor
Häftad, 2009
306 kr
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In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of 'green religions' in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups-radical environmental activists, …
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Av Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
389 kr
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When Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was published in 1972, it was enthusiastically embraced by Westerners eager for spiritual insight and knowledge of Zen. The book became the most successful treatise on Buddhism in English, selling more than one million copies to date. Branching …
Music after the Fall
Modern Composition and Culture since 1989
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
271 kr
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Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the …
Deep History
The Architecture of Past and Present
Av Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important …
Living Goddesses
Av Marija Gimbutas, Miriam R. Dexter
Häftad, 2001
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
298 kr
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The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally shocking--interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the …
When Christians First Met Muslims
A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the …
Homo Necans
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Häftad, 1986
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406 kr
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Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
Understanding Criminal Networks
A Research Guide
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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Understanding Criminal Networks is a short methodological primer for those interested in studying illicit, deviant, covert, or criminal networks using social network analysis (SNA). Accessibly written by Gisela Bichler, a leading expert in SNA for dark networks, the book is chock-full of graphics, …
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures
A Critical Anthology
Häftad, 2021
447 kr
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Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic …
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life
Häftad, 2011
289 kr
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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, "Unequal Childhoods" explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing …
Complete Poems of Tibullus
An En Face Bilingual Edition
Av Albius Tibullus, Lygdamus m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
303 kr
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Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus' reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these works provide an important document for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexuality …
Magia Sexualis
Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism
Inbunden, 2006
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714 kr
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Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic - the use of sex as a source of magical power - emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual …
Amateur Cinema
The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960
Häftad, 2014
470 kr
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From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and by the 1950s, over a million Americans had amateur movie cameras. In Amateur Cinema, Charles …
Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Häftad, 1993
421 kr
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The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent …
Microcosmos
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
Av Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
Häftad, 1997
280 kr
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This title is back in print with a revised preface. "Microcosmos" brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the …
Electrical Palestine
Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
Häftad, 2019
271 kr
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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life—so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the …
West Coast Jazz
Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960
Av Ted Gioia
Häftad, 1998
412 kr
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From the Preface by Ted Gioia:All of these musicians fought their way back over the next decade, and their success in re-establishing themselves as important artists was perhaps the first signal, initially unrecognized as such, that a re-evaluation of the earlier West Coast scene was under way. …
Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Häftad, 1995
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529 kr
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Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the …
Meta-Religion
Religion and Power in World History
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing …
Landscape of War
Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and …
City of Walls
Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
Häftad, 2001
306 kr
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Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in Sao Paulo poses essential questions about citizenship and urban change in contemporary democratic societies. Focusing on Sao Paulo, and using comparative data on Los Angeles, she identifies new patterns of segregation developing …
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
Häftad, 1996
289 kr
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Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s …
Eating NAFTA
Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico
Häftad, 2018
371 kr
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Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous …
Sufism and Taoism
A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts
Häftad, 2016
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306 kr
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In this deeply learned work, Toshihiko Izutsu compares the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism and discovers that, although historically unrelated, the two share features and patterns which prove fruitful for a transhistorical dialogue. His original and suggestive …
Theory of Harmony – 100th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2010
356 kr
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There is a new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, that expands this centennial edition. Frisch puts Schoenberg's masterpiece into historical and ideological context, delineating the connections between music, …
Rustle of Language
Häftad, 1989
320 kr
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The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching--the pleasure of the text--in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.
Controlling Contested Places
Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy
Häftad, 2019
306 kr
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From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) …
Screw Consent
A Better Politics of Sexual Justice
Häftad, 2019
282 kr
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When we talk about sex—whether great, good, bad, or unlawful—we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy? What if …
Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice
The Creation of a Genre
Av Ellen Rosand
Häftad, 2007
735 kr
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Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and economic environment of seventeenth-century Venice and there developed the stylistic and aesthetic characteristics we recognize as opera today. With ninety-one music examples, most of them complete …
Tensions of Empire
Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
Av Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler
Häftad, 1997
471 kr
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Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various …
