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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

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

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

Perspectives on Trade and Development

Anne O Krueger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Developing countries typically have wage rates that are a small fraction of those in developed countries. Trade theories traditionally attributed this... 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

Cartography

Matthew H Edney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about ... Lees meer

The Bloodsworth Orphans

Leon Forrest

• Paperback | Engels
• Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days , uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and spirituality in his writing.... Lees meer

Love, Sex & Tragedy

Simon Goldhill

• Paperback | Engels
• "If you do not know where you come from, you will always be a child." Cicero wasn't talking about being a child in the sense of enjoying life in a sta... Lees meer

The Future of Academic Freedom

Louis Menand

• Paperback | Engels
• At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today--from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a mult... Lees meer

Diary of Our Fatal Illness

Charles Bardes

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Poets
• This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to rel... Lees meer

Tangled Goods

Iddo Tavory, Sonia Prelat, Shelly Ronen

• Hardcover | Engels
• A novel investigation of pro bono marketing and the relationship between goods, exploring the complex moral dimensions of philanthropic advertising. T... Lees meer

Improvising Improvisation

Gary Peters

• Paperback | Engels
• There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the... Lees meer

Vivaldi

H C Robbins Landon

• Paperback | Engels
• Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons , and the majority of ... Lees meer

Apologies to Thucydides

Marshall Sahlins

• Paperback | Engels
• Presents Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocent... Lees meer

Image Science

W J T Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels
• Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanit... Lees meer

Elephant Memories

Cynthia J Moss

• Paperback | Engels
• Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over 27 years. Her research has revealed much of what we now know about t... Lees meer

The Damsel

Richard Stark

• Paperback | Engels
• Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featur... Lees meer

A Socialist Peace?

Mike McGovern

• Paperback | Engels
• For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and G... Lees meer

Studying Human Behavior

Helen E Longino

• Paperback | Engels
• Deals with the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of "nature versus nurture." The author dissec... Lees meer

The Dialectical Necessity of Morality

Deryck Beyleveld

• Paperback | Engels
• Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality , in which he set forth the Principle of Generic Consistency, is a major work of modern ethical theory that, though... Lees meer

Tocqueville in Arabia

Joshua Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. We live i... Lees meer

Brown in the Windy City

Lilia Fernández

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Examines the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. The author reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago ... Lees meer