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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Stanley Cavell looks closely at America’s most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood’s stars,... Læs mere
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Odyssey, Volume I: Books 1–12 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan War and the temptations, delays, and dangers he faced at every turn.
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Anabasis (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Anabasis by Xenophon (ca. 430–ca. 354 BC) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries’ challenging “March Up-Country” from Babylon back to the coast of Asia Minor under Xenophon’s guidance in 401 BC.
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Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the “adopted daughter” of an Inuit family. Through vignettes of daily... Læs mere
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Dynamism: The Values That Drive Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Economic Growth (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific... Læs mere
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Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Usually when we’re bored, we try to distract ourselves. But soon enough, boredom returns. James Danckert and John Eastwood argue that we can learn to handle... Læs mere
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Platonic Theology: Books I-IV (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the... Læs mere
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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of... Læs mere
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The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Genetic breakthroughs present us with a predicament: is it wrong to re-engineer our nature? Sandel explores the moral quandaries... Læs mere
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China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this... Læs mere
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Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed the evolution of... Læs mere
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