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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga is the author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack... Læs mere
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Barren Lives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.
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Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.
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Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing fascinating connections between cultural history and film authorship, Blossoms and Blood charts the development of Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films, such as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, offer a prescient approach to the contr
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Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers the first musical biography of the electrifying artist who has most successfully bridged the disparate worlds of commercial country and alternative/Americana/roots music, Dwight Yoakam
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Portugal's Other Kingdom: The Algarve (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.
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South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book fills the crucial need for a single volume that gives broad coverage and synthesizes findings for both the general reader and the specialist.
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Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms.
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Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Using sensory ethnobotany to understand people-plant relationships and gardening practices in the Brazilian Cerrado, this multispecies ethnography presents a non-Western approach to environmental conservation and resilience.
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Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Demonstrating how the growth of a midsized city can illuminate urban development issues across an entire region, this exemplary history of Corpus Christi explores how competing regional and cosmopolitan influences have shaped this thriving port and leisur
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Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyzes questions of gender representation in Latin American cultural productions to establish the interrelationships, tensions, and... Læs mere
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Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lowland South American languages have been among the least studied in the world. This title states that tremendous diversity and... Læs mere
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