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Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is the second edition of Stern's account of the Indians of the Ayachucho region of Peru during the century that followed the Spanish Conquest. Following ten years of historical interpretation, the author is now able to set his analysis of Huamanga in a larger perspective.
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Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The writers featured in this volume have all recorded their encounters with nature. McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behaviour, and to their rejection of modern alienation and spiritual confusion.
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Spanish Peru, 1532-60: A Social History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This study, based on a large mass of data, gives a picture of Peruvian society in its formative stages. It describes the nature of Spanish colonisation in the New... Læs mere
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Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This study examines agricultural restructuring and its effect upon various African societies. It documents how... Læs mere
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The Cockfight: A Casebook (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The essays in this collection discuss topics such as: the intricate rules of cockfighting; the ethics of pitting two equally-matched roosters in a match to the death; the emotional involvement of cockfighters and fans; and the sexual implications of the male-dominated ritual.
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Understanding Scientific Prose (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Studies one scientific essay - ""The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme"", by evolutionary theorists Stephen... Læs mere
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Dolor Y Alegria: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In ""Dolor y Alegria"", 15 mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers in the Mexican City of Cuernavaca speak about the dramatic effects that... Læs mere
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Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-36 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Payne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.
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American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Demonstrates how evolutionary theories shaped the American socialist movement and examines the attempts of radicals in the late 19th and early 20th... Læs mere
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Walden West (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The author of this book was a chronicler whose ear was close to the northern Wisconsin ground. In his Sac Prairie Saga, of which ""Walden West"" is the crowning volume, he captures the... Læs mere
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The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is an enquiry into the tremendous changes that have transformed medicine in the past half-century. It examines how ""runaway"" technology has thrown up ethical questions in medicine.
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Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A portrait of Frank Marshall Davis, prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene in the 1920s... Læs mere
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