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Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life
Häftad, 2011
287 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 …
Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Av Bron Taylor
Häftad, 2009
406 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, …
Living Goddesses
Av Marija Gimbutas, Miriam R. Dexter
Häftad, 2001
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
291 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 …
Funnybooks
The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books
Häftad, 2014
481 kr
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Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks …
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Av Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
392 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)
345 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
266 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 …
When Christians First Met Muslims
A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam
Häftad, 2015
300 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 …
Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine
Häftad, 2015
266 kr
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The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine has become a landmark in the history of Chinese civilization. Written in the form of a dialogue in which the emperor seeks information from his minister Ch'I-Po on questions of health and the art of healing, it is the oldest known document in …
Homo Necans
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Häftad, 1986
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
317 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.
Culture of Pain
Häftad, 1993
428 kr
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This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. The greatest surprise I encountered in discussing this topic over the past ten years was the consistency with which I was asked a single unvarying question: Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? The overwhelming consistency of …
Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation
Häftad, 1990
386 kr
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Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious …
Listening to Killers
Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
Häftad, 2015
305 kr
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Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood …
Understanding Criminal Networks
A Research Guide
Häftad, 2019
393 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, …
Modern World-System I
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 2011
417 kr
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Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the …
Modern World-System II
Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750
Häftad, 2011
326 kr
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Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the …
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures
A Critical Anthology
Häftad, 2021
438 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 …
Complete Poems of Tibullus
An En Face Bilingual Edition
Av Albius Tibullus, Lygdamus m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
427 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
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
699 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
412 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
275 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
266 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
283 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
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
369 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
300 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
443 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
283 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 …
