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The Illusion of Cultural Identity

Jean-François Bayart

• Paperback | Engels
• The concept of cultural identity has become for many a convenient explanation for most of the world's political problems. In The Illusion of Cultural ... Lees meer

An Ethics of Remembering

Edith Wyschogrod

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Postmodernism
• What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyperreality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For w... Lees meer

The Feeling Intellect

Philip Rieff

• Hardcover | Engels
• Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise... Lees meer

Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres

F Curtis Michel

• Paperback | Engels | Theoretical Astrophysics
• An incomparable reference for astrophysicists studying pulsars and other kinds of neutron stars, Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres sums up two dec... Lees meer

History, Historians, & Autobiography

Jeremy D Popkin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subje... Lees meer

Out in Force

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Can the U.S. military integrate gay personnel into its ranks and still accomplish its mission? In 1993, this question became the center of a heated de... Lees meer

Making a Social Body

Mary Poovey

• Hardcover | Engels
• With much recent work in Victorian studies focused on gender and class differences, the homogenizing features of 19th-century culture have received re... Lees meer

On Niebuhr

Langdon Gilkey

• Hardcover | Engels
• Langdon Gilkey's insightful, engaging book offers a detailed--and not uncritical--examination of one of the most influential American theologians of t... 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

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

Dawn in Arctic Alaska

Diamond Jenness

• Paperback | Engels
• The Karluk had disappeared. Whether the vessel had freed itself from the ice and steamed eastward, or whether, still imprisoned, it had been carried b... Lees meer

The Poison in the Gift

Gloria Goodwin Raheja

• Hardcover | Engels | Ritual, Pre-Station, and the Dominant Caste in a North India
• The Poison in the Gift is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretatio... Lees meer

The Last Panda

George B Schaller

• Hardcover | Engels
• Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo, hunted mercilessly for its pelt, and hostage to profiteering schemes once in captivity, the panda is on the... Lees meer

Threads of Life

Richard Freadman

• Hardcover | Engels
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Culture Troubles

Patrick Chabal, Jean-Pascal Daloz

• Paperback | Engels
• Understanding politics in nations other than your own is a perilous exercise. If you were to read two newspaper articles on the same topic but from di... 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

Pressed for Time

Judy Wajcman

• Hardcover | Engels
• The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day ... Lees meer

Novelties in the Heavens

Jean Dietz Moss

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lectures in Mathematics (Paperback)
• In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well--one in whi... Lees meer

The Cynical Society

Jeffrey C Goldfarb

• Paperback | Engels | Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American
• The Cynical Society is a study of the political despair and abdication of (individual) responsibility Goldfarb calls cynicism--a central but unexamine... 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

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

Opposing Ambitions

Sherryl Kleinman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Renewal is a holistic health center run by baby boomers whose political ideals were shaped by the counterculture movements of the 1960s. Through inter... Lees meer

Morphological Integration

Everett C Olson, Robert L Miller

• Paperback | Engels
• Despite recent advances in genetics, development, anatomy, systematics, and morphometrics, the synthesis of ideas and research agenda put forth in the... Lees meer

City of American Dreams

Margaret Garb

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home... Lees meer