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Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sternberg explores the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety, or instill peace.
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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one’s quarrel... Læs mere
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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity... Læs mere
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A classic in its field, Space, Time and Architecture has been revised and expanded four times since its... Læs mere
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The Palestinian People: A History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The authors offer a balanced, authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. They unravel... Læs mere
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Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz takes readers through the... Læs mere
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A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
We see the word 'religion' everywhere, yet do we understand what it means, and is there a consistent worldwide understanding? Who discovered religion and in what context? This title offers an argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe.
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The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman,... Læs mere
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and... Læs mere
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On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines... Læs mere
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The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African... Læs mere
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Letters to Friends (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and... Læs mere
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