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The The Samurai: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A portrait of Parisian intellectuals of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of Olga, a young Eastern European who comes to Paris to write a literary thesis, and finds herself immediately swept into the world of a group of young leftist thinkers and writers known as the Samurai.
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Proust and the Sense of Time (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, drawing on Proust’s notebooks and manuscripts.
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Possessions: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This sequel to Julia Kristeva’s celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased.
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The The Old Man and the Wolves: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Part detective story, part fable, this novel—narrated by a French journalist—takes the reader to a mythical postindustrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased.
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Nations Without Nationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Underlying Julia Kristeva’s Nations Without Nationalism is the idea that otherness—whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political—needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee social harmony.
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What We Eat: A Global History of Food (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What We Eat explores world history through the lens of the global journeys of nearly ninety food products. Leading historians trace the origins and popularization of items commonly found in supermarkets, showing how each food illuminates wider histories.
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Saving Ourselves from Big Car: Saving Ourselves from Big Car (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book exposes how “Big Car”—the complex of companies in the automobile, oil, insurance, media, and concrete industries that promote and entrench car dependence—has pursued profit at the expense of the common good.
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Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Principles of Bitcoin presents a holistic, first-principles-based framework for understanding one of the most misunderstood inventions of our time.
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Metamorphoses Reimagined (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Metamorphoses Reimagined offers a twenty-first-century retelling of Ovid’s masterpiece that decenters the human.
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Chinese Encounters with America: Journeys That Shaped the Future of China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Chinese Encounters with America tells the stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China’s trajectory.
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Inside Salafi-Jihadist Governance: The Strategies and Characteristics of Islamist Insurgent Rule (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book is a groundbreaking comparative exploration of Salafi-Jihadist governance, drawing on in-depth case studies of the Islamic State in western Iraq and eastern Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northwestern Syria, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen.
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Debating Disaster Risk: Ethical Dilemmas in the Era of Climate Change (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Debating Disaster Risk brings together leading global experts to explore the controversies that emerge—and the tough decisions that must be made—when cities, people, and the environment are at risk.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
