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In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on... Læs mere
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Without Within: Parenthetic Interferences in Reception History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining alongside Modernity. By... Læs mere
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Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which... Læs mere
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that... Læs mere
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The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create ways of being, as individuals and as a society.... Læs mere
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The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kristin Surak offers the first on-the-ground investigation of the global market in citizenship for the rich. She tracks the countries that sell... Læs mere
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The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin... Læs mere
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The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She... Læs mere
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Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A successful business deal maximizes value for all parties. Drawing on diverse case studies and decades of experience, Michael Klausner and Guhan... Læs mere
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Zhou Enlai: A Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Zhou Enlai, China’s first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou’s influence in his own time and since has been vast. Chen Jian shows Zhou using his political and bureaucratic... Læs mere
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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula.... Læs mere
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally... Læs mere
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