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Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam has been propelled by the rise of new markets, digital telecommunications, and an ideological emphasis on money's autonomy from the state.
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The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority.
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Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Glacier Ice: Revised Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The awesome beauty and majesty of glaciers, the world of ice which has shaped and reshaped large parts of the earth’s surfaces, are presented here through more than 100 photographs and a closely integrated, informed text.
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Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay.
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Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. As rowers from the University... Læs mere
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Squamish-English Dictionary (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This dictionary is the first published compilation by the Squamish Nation of Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim, one of ten Coast Salish languages.
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Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as “eloquence adjuncts” that intensify a... Læs mere
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Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their fundamental features helped early humans adapt to their environment and reproduce themselves successfully over generations.
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Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship.
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Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places.
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Urban Forest Landscapes: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The goal of urban forestry is to understand the ecological, institutional, and human issues at work in the urban landscape.
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