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Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. This... Læs mere
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Deep Things out of Darkness: A History of Natural History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. This title chronicles the rise, decline, and ultimate revival of natural history within the realms of science and public discourse.
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Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. This volume examines the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.
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Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public grappling with its commemoration. This title considers the... Læs mere
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Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel that takes us inside the world of this contemporary fundamentalist community, its lifestyle and mores, including education, religious practices and beliefs, sexual ethics, and marriage.
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Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This text argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. It shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license.
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Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.
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Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
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Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Examines the mechanisms through which 17th-century musicians simulated extreme affective states - desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. This book... Læs mere
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Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers -... Læs mere
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Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers -... Læs mere
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Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China’s Great Urban Migration (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel... Læs mere
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