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A Precarious Happiness

Peter E Gordon

• Hardcover | Engels
• A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. "Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle int... Lees meer

Court, Cloister, and City

Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

• Hardcover | Engels
• The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinte... Lees meer

Sexology Uncensored

• Paperback | Engels
• Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late ninetee... Lees meer

Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan

• Paperback | Engels
• Offering a new perspective on global trade relations during the Age of Exploration, Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan explores the relationships between Po... Lees meer

Elsewhere

Alastair Bonnett

• Paperback | Engels
• Explorer and geographer Alastair Bonnett takes us on a thought-provoking tour of the world's most fascinating islands, featuring hand-drawn maps, colo... Lees meer

Maps with the News

Mark Monmonier

• Hardcover | Engels
• An assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to t... Lees meer

Negotiating Difference

Michael Awkward

• Hardcover | Engels | Black Literature and Culture
• Encamped within the limits of experience and authenticity, critics today often stake out their positions according to race and ethnicity, sexuality an... Lees meer

International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices

• Hardcover | Engels | National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and W | nr. 61
• This work includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the IC... Lees meer

All the Rage

Suzanna Danuta Walters

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public l... Lees meer

Music, Race, and Nation

Peter Wade

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying int... Lees meer

Threads of Life

Richard Freadman

• Hardcover | Engels
• This work offers an account of how changing theological, philosophical and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing... Lees meer

Lost Property

Jennifer Summit

• Hardcover | Engels
• The English literary canon is haunted by the figure of the lost woman writer. In our own age, she has been a powerful stimulus for the rediscovery of ... Lees meer

The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

• Hardcover | Engels | National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
• Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a s... Lees meer

The Deepest Human Life

Scott Samuelson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. Exploring the works of some of history's most important thinkers in the cont... Lees meer

The Religion of Falun Gong

Benjamin Penny

• Hardcover | Engels
• In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is... Lees meer

A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England

Thomas Hobbes

• Paperback | Engels
• This little-known late writing of Hobbes reveals an unexplored dimension of his famous doctrine of sovereignty. The essay was first published posthumo... Lees meer

China's Growing Role in World Trade

• Paperback | Engels | National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
• In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a sub... Lees meer

The Anatomy of Architecture

Suzanne Preston Blier

• Paperback | Engels
• Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can ... Lees meer

Possessed

Stefan Andriopoulos

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Modernity
• Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed indivi... Lees meer

Professional Powers

Eliot Freidson

• Paperback | Engels | Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge
• This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of ... Lees meer

Coming Together

Ryan Powell

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Coming Together , Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in t... Lees meer

Manhood

Michel Leiris

• Paperback | Engels
• "Not only one of the frankest of autobiographies, but also a brilliantly written book, Leiris' Manhood mingles memories, philosophic reflections, sexu... Lees meer

Melancholia's Dog

Alice A Kuzniar

• Paperback | Engels
• An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, this title tackles such difficult concepts as i... Lees meer

Becoming Historians

• Paperback | Engels
• A collection of memoirs of eleven historians who, born around the time of World War II, helped to transform both their discipline and the broader worl... Lees meer