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Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the extraordinary story of how Japan was dramatically transformed during the long reign of Emperor Meiji, from an isolated island nation to one of the five great powers of the world, poised as a rival in Asia to Russia and the European colonial powers.
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The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles... Læs mere
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Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Ethical Asset Valuation and the Good Society (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Christian Gollier offers a powerful method for transforming societal goals of shared prosperity into the cornerstone of financial decision making. Ethical... Læs mere
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Eric Rohmer: A Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This definitive biography vividly captures Rohmer’s life and achievements. Antoine... Læs mere
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The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. The essay film draws on a variety of... Læs mere
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The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for... Læs mere
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution.
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Challenges traditional ideas about cooking and eating. This book examines and debunks a variety of time-honored rules and dictums about cooking and presents ways of preparing a variety of dishes from quiches and quenelles to steak and hard-boiled eggs.
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The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Centers on an old institution among the Afro-Surinamese working class in which women have multiple sexual relationships... Læs mere
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The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.
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Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash
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