wyszukanych pozycji: 14
A Life in Middle East Studies
ISBN: 9781939067234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Roger Owen's first encounter with the Middle East was as a young soldier during his national military service in Cyprus from 1955-6. During this time, he visited Cairo, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beirut before deciding to spend the rest of his academic and professional life at Oxford and Harvard Universities, where he taught, studied, made friends and tried to understand the region via its politics, economic life, history and popular culture. Providentially, he also decided to keep an almost daily journal recording his thoughts and feelings, as well as being fortunate to be asked to write a... Roger Owen's first encounter with the Middle East was as a young soldier during his national military service in Cyprus from 1955-6. During this ti... |
|
cena:
122,43 zł |
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South
ISBN: 9780520304604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
165,69 zł |
In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
ISBN: 9780520224742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how fatwas, or legal opinions, greatly influenced these roles. She challenges prevailing views on Islam and gender, revealing Islamic law to have been more fluid and flexible than previously thought. Although the legal system had a consistent patriarchal orientation, it was modulated by...
In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In sevent...
|
|
cena:
149,12 zł |
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South
ISBN: 9780520304598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
441,84 zł |
Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase
ISBN: 9780812695298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) What is humankind in relation to 13 billion years of universe history? What is our place in the framework of 4.6 billion years of Earth history? How can we foster the stability and integrity of life processes? Just as humankind is beginning to comprehend the vastness and complexity of the evolutionary story of the universe, we are also becoming conscious of the growing environmental crisis and of the rapid destruction of species and habitat taking place around the globe. The challenge for the world's religions, argues Mary Evelyn Tucker, is both to re-envision our role as citizens of the...
What is humankind in relation to 13 billion years of universe history? What is our place in the framework of 4.6 billion years of Earth history? How c...
|
|
cena:
108,98 zł |
Gathering Grounds: 2011-2019
ISBN: 9781848616691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) These poems were all written as part of collaborative place-based projects with the artist Judith Tucker. They emerge from what could be described as fieldwork, poetry based on walking through, and engaging with, place, with Judith, and, increasingly, with people who live in and visit the areas concerned. Some research into the areas concerned has also taken place and contributed to the work. Up until this moment, they have been pieces in flux. Shorter related poems or fragments have been exhibited with drawings and paintings and many of these longer pieces have been read at openings and...
These poems were all written as part of collaborative place-based projects with the artist Judith Tucker. They emerge from what could be described as ...
|
|
cena:
120,12 zł |
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law
ISBN: 9780521537476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In what ways has Islamic law discriminated against women and privileged men? What rights and power have been accorded to Muslim women, and how have they used the legal system to enhance their social and economic position? In an analysis of Islamic law through the prism of gender, Judith Tucker tackles these complex questions relating to the position of women in Islamic society, and to the ways in which the legal system impacted on the family, property rights, space and sexuality, from classical and medieval times to the present. Working with concepts drawn from feminist legal theory and by...
In what ways has Islamic law discriminated against women and privileged men? What rights and power have been accorded to Muslim women, and how have th...
|
|
cena:
140,46 zł |
A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East
ISBN: 9780813321011 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this important new work, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker synthesize and make accessible the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years. Using new theoretical approaches and methodologies as well as nontraditional sources, scholars studying women and gender issues in Middle Eastern societies have made great progress in shedding light on these complex subjects. A Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East provides an overview of this scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle...
In this important new work, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker synthesize and make accessible the results of the extensive research on women and ge...
|
|
cena:
262,29 zł |
Human Adaptive Strategies: An Ecological Introduction to Anthropology
ISBN: 9781032407173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. It shows how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their survival mehtods have affected other aspects of their culture.
This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environmen...
|
|
cena:
655,86 zł |
Human Adaptive Strategies: An Ecological Introduction to Anthropology
ISBN: 9781032407166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. It shows how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their survival mehtods have affected other aspects of their culture.
This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environmen...
|
|
cena:
209,82 zł |
Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law
ISBN: 9780521830447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In what ways has Islamic law discriminated against women and privileged men? What rights and power have been accorded to Muslim women, and how have they used the legal system to enhance their social and economic position? In an analysis of Islamic law through the prism of gender, Judith Tucker tackles these complex questions relating to the position of women in Islamic society, and to the ways in which the legal system impacted on the family, property rights, space and sexuality, from classical and medieval times to the present. Working with concepts drawn from feminist legal theory and by...
In what ways has Islamic law discriminated against women and privileged men? What rights and power have been accorded to Muslim women, and how have th...
|
|
cena:
379,10 zł |
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
ISBN: 9780521314206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The nineteenth century in Egypt was a period of rapid social and economic change, brought about by the country's developing ties with the European economy. Focusing on lower-class women, this study traces changes in the work role and family life of peasant women in the countryside and craftswomen and traders in Cairo, and explores the world of the slave woman. The effects of capitalist transformation on women are studied in detail, using material from the Islamic court records. The effects of the Egyptian process of state formation and colonial rule are discussed: the growth of the state...
The nineteenth century in Egypt was a period of rapid social and economic change, brought about by the country's developing ties with the European eco...
|
|
cena:
337,82 zł |
Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century
ISBN: 9780814742273 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the latest work in African-American studies, covers such trenchant topics as the culture of America as a culture of race, the politics of gender and sexuality, legacies of slavery and colonialism, crime and welfare politics, and African-American cultural studies. In his entertaining Foreword to the... Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Con... |
|
cena:
367,28 zł |
Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century
ISBN: 9780814742280 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Consciousness is a veritable Who's Who of the next generation of scholars of African-American studies. This collection of original essays, representing the latest work in African-American studies, covers such trenchant topics as the culture of America as a culture of race, the politics of gender and sexuality, legacies of slavery and colonialism, crime and welfare politics, and African-American cultural studies. In his entertaining Foreword to the... Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends, Race Con... |
|
cena:
131,12 zł |