wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City
ISBN: 9780791432624 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dying the Good Death is a unique ethnography, the first to focus on the experiences of dying at the end of the life cycle. In a region of northern India, some people at the end of their lives leave their villages and travel to the Hindu holy city of Kashi to die. These pilgrims expect that by dying in Kashi they will obtain the spiritual reward of moksha--liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. Based on fieldwork conducted in Kashi's hospices or "mansions of liberation," Christopher Justice introduces us to a number of dying individuals and their families, providing rich and...
Dying the Good Death is a unique ethnography, the first to focus on the experiences of dying at the end of the life cycle. In a region of northern Ind...
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138,48 zł |
The Sound of Writing
ISBN: 9781421447247 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists, medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to trace...
An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writi...
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518,43 zł |
The Sound of Writing
ISBN: 9781421447254 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writing explores the devices and techniques that writers have used to represent sound and how they have changed over time. Contributors consider how writing has channeled sounds as varied as the human voice and the buzzing of bees using not only alphabets but also the resources of the visual and musical arts. Cannon and Justice have assembled a constellation of classicists, medievalists, modernists, literary historians, and musicologists to trace...
An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writi...
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247,00 zł |
Biomass Burning in South and Southeast Asia: Mapping and Monitoring, Volume One
ISBN: 9780367076818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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747,78 zł |
Biomass Burning in South and Southeast Asia, Two Volume Set
ISBN: 9780367075163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 660 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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1108,77 zł |
Biomass Burning in South and Southeast Asia: Impacts on the Biosphere, Volume Two
ISBN: 9780367076047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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747,78 zł |
Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective
ISBN: 9780806138879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language; Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers;... This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue t... |
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124,58 zł |