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Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

Agustín Fuentes

• Hardcover | Engels
• Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, this title incorporates an understanding of culture, genetics, an... Lees meer

British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance

David Kopf

• Paperback | Engels
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice

• Hardcover | Engels
• The rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provide free masks in the wake of US government failures during th... Lees meer

Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Angela McDonald

• Paperback
• The Egyptian hieroglyphic script is one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and expressive writing systems ever invented. This title shows how to crea... Lees meer

Drug War Politics

Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, Kenneth Sharpe, Peter Andreas

• Paperback | Engels
• Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug traffickin... Lees meer

I Too Have Some Dreams

A Sean Pue

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Across the Disciplines
• I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the e... Lees meer

The White Scourge

Neil Foley

• Paperback | Engels | American Crossroads | nr. 2
• In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the co... Lees meer

In Search of Lost Meaning

Adam Michnik

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik--one of Europe's leading dissidents--traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writ... Lees meer

Saving Open Space

Daniel M Press

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is the first to tell the story of conservation by local government and private land trusts in California. It describes the remarkable extent... Lees meer

American History Unbound

Gary Y Okihiro

• Paperback | Engels
• A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific ... Lees meer

China's New Voices

Nimrod Baranovitch

• Paperback | Engels
• This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon e... Lees meer

Dead Pool

James Lawrence Powell

• Hardcover | Engels
• Where will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? In a provocative exploration of the past, pr... Lees meer

The Tonadilla in Performance

Elisabeth Le Guin

• Hardcover | Engels
• The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in t... Lees meer

Three Faces of Hermeneutics

Roy J Howard

• Hardcover | Engels
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Memory for Forgetfulness

Mahmoud Darwish

• Paperback | Engels | Literature of the Middle East
• One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose ... Lees meer

Moving by the Spirit

Naomi Haynes

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Christianity | nr. 22
• Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a de... Lees meer

Homo Necans

Walter Burkert

• Paperback | Engels
• Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christ... Lees meer

Making Peace

George Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels
• UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult ... Lees meer

A Certain Realism

Maurizio Viano

• Paperback | Engels
• Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films- Accattone , The Canterbury Tales , Medea ... Lees meer

A Systematic Review of the Ectemnius (Hymenoptera

Raina L Takumi

• Paperback | Engels | Uc Publications in Entomology | nr. 118
• This study is the first revision in 35 years of the native Hawaiian sphecid wasps of the genus Ectemnius . The author provides an original key to spec... Lees meer

Vilyatpur 1848-1968

Tom G Kessinger

• Paperback | Engels
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Music and Revolution

Robin D Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Music of the African Diaspora | nr. 9
• Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the ... Lees meer

The Art of Presence

Arnold Stein

• Paperback | Engels
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Peasant Wisdom

Daniela Weinberg

• Paperback | Engels
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer