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The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Despite the economic boom of the 1990s, the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the United States is growing larger. This volume draws together a panel of scholars who address the issue in terms comprehensible to non-economists.
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History and Theory after the Fall: An Essay on Interpretation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The World's Room (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, this collection intertwines the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slang, and the sacred and the profane.
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Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines two episodes in the recent history of black film - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "hood" films such as... Læs mere
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Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this study of newborn weight and economic growth in Boston, Dublin, Edinburgh, Montreal and Vienna between 1850 and 1930, W. Peter Ward explores the relation between infant size, economic development, and living standards of working-class women in the industrializing West.
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Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia versus MOVE (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This text reconstructs the conflict between MOVE, a radical black separatist group, and the city of Philadelphia. Against this account, the author develops an analysis of the relation between definition and action, between language and violence.
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Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
On his return to the village of Chipaya, the author learned that a group of Uru Indians, believed to be sorcerers and vampires, was being incarcerated and tortured. This study examines relations between the Urus and the region's dominant ethnic groups.
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Lyric Powers (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. To explain why a reader might prefer one kind of poem to another, this book analyzes - beyond the... Læs mere
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Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State: Professionalism and Conformity in the GDR (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This collection of interviews with more than two dozen writers and literary scholars, including several Stasi informants, provides a survey of the motivations, compromises and illusions of East German intellectual life.
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After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
High school reunions force participants to account for themselves, not only to their own satisfaction, but also to the satisfaction of others. This text explores the ongoing construction of identity in American society, and the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are.
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Baroque Personae (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Baroque period stretched from the end of the 16th to the second half of the 17th century. In this book, 13 scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual... Læs mere
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