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The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of the Chinese’s attempts to venture abroad and the... Læs mere
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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to... Læs mere
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Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In the early twentieth century, mass media - popular newspapers, radio, film - exploded at the same time that millions of Britons received the vote... Læs mere
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The Histories, Volume II: Books 3–4 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the... Læs mere
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Hippocrates, Volume IX: Coan Prenotions. Anatomical and Minor Clinical Writings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC), but... Læs mere
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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin is poorly chronicled. Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait as intimate as it is... Læs mere
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The The Vulgate Bible: Douay-Rheims Translation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Volume III in this six-volume translation of the Vulgate Bible begins with Job’s argument with God and continues with the Psalms... Læs mere
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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Danto argues that recent developments in art—in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things—make urgent the need... Læs mere
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings: 1931-1934 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collected here are “Franz Kafka,” “Karl Kraus,” and “The Author as Producer,” the meditation “A Berlin Chronicle,” discussions of photography... Læs mere
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When the King Took Flight (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a group of... Læs mere
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Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers... Læs mere
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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures.
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