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Techniques Using Slips

John Mathieson

• Paperback | Engels
• Slip, a form of liquid clay, has been used since ancient times to add color and texture to ceramics. This method of clay decoration, practiced from Ro... Lees meer

Unhuman Culture

Daniel Cottom

• Hardcover | Engels
• It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematiza... Lees meer

Death Squad

Sluka Jeffrey

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnography of Political Violence
• "There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually br... Lees meer

Latinity and Literary Society at Rome

W Martin Bloomer

• Hardcover | Engels
• For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the ability to write and speak pure Latin was the mark of the true scholar. But although such skill ... Lees meer

Beyond the Politics of the Closet

• Hardcover | Engels
• A collection of essays that demonstrate how LGBT people played critical roles in local, state, and national politics In the 1970s, queer Americans dem... Lees meer

Rude Awakening

Mauro F Guillén

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the wake of World War II, a number of institutions designed to promote a liberal global economic and geopolitical order were established--the Inter... Lees meer

The Case of Peter Pan

Jacqueline Rose

• Paperback | Engels | New Cultural Studies
• Peter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. ... Lees meer

Getting Out

• Hardcover | Engels
• Eventually every conqueror, every imperial power, every occupying army gets out. Why do they decide to leave? And how do political and military leader... Lees meer

Commerce by a Frozen Sea

Ann M Carlos, Frank D Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels
• Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth ... Lees meer

Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2

Jason David Beduhn

• Hardcover | Engels | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• By 388 C.E., Augustine had broken with the Manichaeism of his early adulthood and wholeheartedly embraced Nicene Christianity as the tradition with wh... Lees meer

Death in the New World

Erik R Seeman

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Car... Lees meer

Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome

George Jennison

• Paperback | Engels
• Deadly combat between gladiators is perhaps the best-known example of public entertainment offered in the Roman world. Wild and domesticated animals w... Lees meer

Necropolitics

• Paperback | Engels | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mo... Lees meer

Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Richard W Unger

• Paperback | Engels
• The beer of today--brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adu... Lees meer

Rape on Trial

Lisa M Cuklanz

• Paperback | Engels | Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture
• Why has so much of the public discussion of rape focused on a few specific cases, and to what extent has this discussion incorporated the feminist per... Lees meer

The Laws of the Salian Franks

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, the Franks established in northern Gaul one of the most enduring of the Germanic barbarian kingdom... Lees meer

Subjects Unto the Same King

Jenny Hale Pulsipher

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pu... Lees meer

A Legacy of Innovation

• Hardcover | Engels
• From La Follette to Faubus, from Rockefeller to Reagan, U.S. governors have addressed some of the most contentious policy questions of the twentieth c... Lees meer

The Man Who Made Wall Street

Dan Rottenberg

• Paperback | Engels
• He tamed the market's bulls and bears. "He was the best friend I have ever had in every way."--J. P. Morgan It was the height of the Gilded Age and J.... Lees meer

Poetics of the Incarnation

Cristina Maria Cervone

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"--an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not tradi... Lees meer

Public Discourse in America

• Paperback | Engels
• A distinguished group of scholars and prominent figures here offers thoughtful new perspectives on the tenor and conduct of public life in contemporar... Lees meer

The Last Landscape

William H Whyte

• Paperback | Engels
• The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods a... Lees meer

Voice of My Beloved

E Ann Matter

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the... Lees meer

Contested Bodies

Sasha Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Early American Studies
• It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the imp... Lees meer