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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.
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Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the... Læs mere
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Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of “presenile dementia” in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy.
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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime of the century.”
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An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer—it is a communication system, like the internet.
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Fantastic Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist’s journey. He details the best places to look for fossils, the art of how to find them, and how to classify the major types.
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What Really Counts: The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and... Læs mere
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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In... Læs mere
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Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion,... Læs mere
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A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Judith Friedlander reconstructs the history of the New School in the context of ongoing debates over academic... Læs mere
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Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Shari?a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to... Læs mere
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Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Kimberly B. Stratton presents an innovative approach to understanding ancient depictions and accusations of magic as forms of... Læs mere
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