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The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing
ISBN: 9780717808298 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,90 |
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Mass Observers Making Meaning: Religion, Spirituality and Atheism in Late 20th-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781350274532 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do people believe about death and the afterlife? How do they negotiate the relationship between science and religion? How do they understand apparently paranormal events? What do they make of sensations of awe, wonder or exceptional moments of sudden enlightenment? The volunteer mass observers responded to such questions with a freshness, openness and honesty which compels attention. Using this rich material, Mass Observers Making Meaning captures the extraordinarily diverse landscape of belief and disbelief to be found in Britain in the late 20th-century, at a time when Christianity...
What do people believe about death and the afterlife? How do they negotiate the relationship between science and religion? How do they understand appa...
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140,83 |
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Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947-1959
ISBN: 9781438493060 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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370,73 |
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Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope
ISBN: 9781666900583 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book examines the lived and everyday-life experiences of Khoikhoi characters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial South Africa.
The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book ex...
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374,05 |
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Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic Through to the Early Byzantine Period: Papers Presented in Honour of G.
ISBN: 9781803270562 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period is presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete and has inspired others to take on the challenge of this subject area. The study of Hellenistic and Roman Crete is, in many respects, still in its infancy. Whilst there is still much that we do not know about life on the island during these times, the past 40 years have seen a marked advancement of research and investigation into these periods at an...
Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period is presented in honour of G.W.M. ...
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245,45 |
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Greek Islander Migration to Australia since the 1950s: (Re)discovering Limnian Identity, Belonging and Home
ISBN: 9783030856632 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belonging are shaped through migration. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, many inhabitants from the small Greek island of Limnos travelled to Australia to flee post-war devastation and economic disaster. With an emphasis on the lived experiences and memories of Limnians, the book sheds light on the emotional pain and trauma they felt as they were separated from their families and homeland. Moving away from more traditional outlooks on migration studies,...
Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belongi...
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442,79 |
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The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World
ISBN: 9783031131264 / Angielski / Twarda / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of...
This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of ...
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805,10 |
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Exploring Emotion in Reformation Scotland: The Emotional Worlds of James Melville, 1556–1614
ISBN: 9783031157363 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the Reformed Protestant Church, whose autobiographical writing provides one of the earliest and fullest opportunities to explore the emotional world and range of experiences of an individual, offering the chance for a more rounded analysis of emotional experiences and language than has ever been offered for Scotland at the time....
This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of ...
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181,11 |
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Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?
ISBN: 9783031188206 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing questions about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’ in the twenty-first century, this book focuses its attention on twentieth-century Northern Ireland and demonstrates how the fragmented and disparate nature of national identity shaped and continues to shape responses to social issues such as immigration. Immigrants moved to Northern Ireland in their thousands during the twentieth century, continuing to do so even during three decades of the Troubles, a violent and bloody conflict that cost over 3,600 lives. Foregrounding the everyday lived experiences of settlers in...
Addressing questions about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’ in the twenty-first century, this book focuses its attention on twentieth-...
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563,56 |
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Nomadic Connectivity: An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa
ISBN: 9783110714609 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at the centre of a country and region known for its political turmoil, ecological insecurities, and socio-economic hardship. The everyday of the Chadian Walad Djifir is one in which sedentarity and mobility are approached as two entwined parts of a whole, and where economic and geographical boundaries do not necessarily form constrictions. The ferīkh (nomadic camp) is where all of the Walad Djifir’s networks meet, and often also begin— a...
A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at t...
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331,23 |
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Football and Fascism: The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal
ISBN: 9783110721225 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu’s field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese “New State” and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of...
Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultura...
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445,97 |
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Exil, Flucht, Migration
ISBN: 9783110770841 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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169,76 |
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(Re-)Mobilizing Voters in Britain and the United States
ISBN: 9783111110301 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,58 |
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From Culturalist Nationalism to Conservatism
ISBN: 9783111122205 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,18 |
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Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City's Inhabitants in the 20th Century
ISBN: 9783837664881 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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242,90 |
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Uncle Choo: Singapore\'s Greatest Football Coach
ISBN: 9789811268472 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, especially during the 1970s. This larger-than-life footballing icon had already made a name for himself as a no-nonsense defender during the 1930s helping Singapore win the Malaya Cup on two occasions.World War II disrupted his promising playing career, and after the war, he switched to coaching. In a coaching career spanning almost 30 years, he had several spells as coach of the Singapore national team (in addition to also coaching the Malaysian and Indonesian teams). Though his...
Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, especially during the 1970s. This larg...
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315,76 |
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Uncle Choo: Singapore\'s Greatest Football Coach
ISBN: 9789811269455 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, especially during the 1970s. This larger-than-life footballing icon had already made a name for himself as a no-nonsense defender during the 1930s helping Singapore win the Malaya Cup on two occasions.World War II disrupted his promising playing career, and after the war, he switched to coaching. In a coaching career spanning almost 30 years, he had several spells as coach of the Singapore national team (in addition to also coaching the Malaysian and Indonesian teams). Though his...
Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, especially during the 1970s. This larg...
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170,03 |
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Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy
ISBN: 9789811984808 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers. It reveals the fundamental problems of each philosopher, clarifies the connotation of the concept as well as the specific reference of the problem, and presents the inherent context and structure of each philosopher’s thoughts. Further, the author analyzes a selection of these ancient philosophers’ main propositions and demonstrates the argumentation and proof processes behind the basic...
This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist schol...
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483,04 |
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Probation and the Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain, 1907-1962
ISBN: 9781350233485 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,83 |
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The Edinburgh History of Scottish Newspapers, 1850-1950
ISBN: 9781399511537 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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752,97 |
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