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Crying in the Middle Ages
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Elina Gertsman |
"Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic … |
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Things That Matter
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Charles Krauthammer |
From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
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Gestatten
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Julia Friedrichs |
"Es gibt Menschen, sagte er, die sind oben; das sind Gewinner. Und Menschen, die sind unten; die Verlierer." Und wenn man sich weigert, das zu akzeptieren? "Dann", sagte der Coach, "hei©t es ganz sch… |
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Crossroads
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Glenn Wallach |
"In the first book to examine the relationship between these two sometimes complementary, sometimes competing major forces, Crossroads brings together a diverse collection of artists, religious leade… |
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Digital media revisited
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Andrew Morrison,Terje Rasmussen |
"Arguing that "first encounters" have already applied traditional theoretical and conceptual frameworks to digital media, the contributors to this book call for "second encounters," or a revisiting. … |
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Ballroom, boogie, shimmy sham, shake
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Julie Malnig |
"This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical in… |
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Water
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Steven Solomon |
"A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present"--Provided by publisher. |
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Mix it up
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David Grazian |
x, 259 pages : 24 cm |
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Consumed
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Andrew Benett |
"Consumed is a forward-thinking look at how shoppers--and consumption--have changed, now and for the foreseeable future, and how businesses must rethink their strategies in order to thrive in this ne… |
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Joost Elffers,Robert Greene |
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it… |
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Development, civil society and faith-based organizations
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Gerard Clarke,Michael Jennings |
International aid and development is increasingly channelled through religious groups and this collection examines the role that these faith-based organisations play in managing international aid, pr… |
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Religion in Australia
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Alan W. Black |
Sociological study of mainly Christian denominations, but including Islam; chapter on Aboriginal religions by Tony Swain separately indexed. |
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Associational life in African cities
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Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa |
The 17 essays in this volume focus on the multitude of voluntary associations to have emerged in African cities in recent years. Recurrent themes include the contexts in which people have organised t… |
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Der Fall Hamilton
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Michelle De Kretser |
Ceylon in den 30er-Jahren. Sam fühlt sich in seiner Rolle als kolonialer Untertan wohl und ist britischer als alle Briten. Doch als es auf der Insel zu einem Mord kommt, ist er davon überzeugt, dass … |
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The Zuni man-woman
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Will Roscoe |
The Zuni Man-Woman focuses on the life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian… |
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Art in society
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Ken Baynes |
288 p. : 27 cm |
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Collapse
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Jared Diamond,Ricardo García Pérez |
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much… |
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Library
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Matthew Battles |
On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge… |
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The Search
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John Battelle |
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture• The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller• Finalist for the Goldman Sachs/FT Business Book of the Year A… |
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Contemporary China
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Mike Dillion |
This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. Intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, it provides the essential information that most people need to know, wit… |
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