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Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China
ISBN: 9780824893491 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,83 |
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Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms
ISBN: 9780198874898 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,61 |
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Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions
ISBN: 9781350376496 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,83 |
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How People Respond to Violence: Everyday Peace and the Maoist Conflict in India
ISBN: 9783031113413 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the powerful role of ordinary people's agency in times of violent conflict. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a Critical Discourse Analysis, the author draws out the motivations, drivers and strategies at individual and community levels. With a focus on people's own voices, this research highlights rich findings showing a wide range of experiences and actions that people engaged in during the violent conflict, and dimensions that are often missed in dominant explanations of violent conflict. Therefore, while looking at peace and conflict from an everyday perspective, the...
This book explores the powerful role of ordinary people's agency in times of violent conflict. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a Critical Discourse...
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402,53 |
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Refugees in International Politics
ISBN: 9781032450605 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1987, Refugees in International Politics explores the nature of forced migration. It sets out systematically the factors that set refugees in motion and explains how and why a flexible network of organizations copes with the inescapable results of their presence.
Originally published in 1987, Refugees in International Politics explores the nature of forced migration. It sets out systematically the factors that ...
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451,73 |
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Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
ISBN: 9781517912567 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,54 |
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Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman's Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems
ISBN: 9781728276595 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,39 |
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The Transhumanist Movement
ISBN: 9783030824259 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is published as part of the "PRIN 2017 The Dark side of the Law".This volume analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of the academic transhumanism movement, beginning with the relationship between anthropology and technique. The author focuses on the question of immortality, which can be considered the core of transhumanism. The true depth of immortality will be discussed, through which and how many transformations could be produced in order to change our society, which is basically shaped by and for human mortal beings, in a society composed by immortal persons. Some writers have...
The book is published as part of the "PRIN 2017 The Dark side of the Law".This volume analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of the academic transhuma...
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442,79 |
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Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future?: Exploring Coastal Societies, Childhood(s) and Local Knowledge in Times of Global Transition
ISBN: 9783031117152 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores questions related to social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the lens of childhood. Contributors explore diverse local and national contexts spanning several countries aiming to shed light on the shifting and dynamic interplay between education, knowledge production, society and working life in coastal environments from an intergenerational perspective. Key points that are disclosed are:the current threat to the social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in different local and national contexts, and the reason they...
This book explores questions related to social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the lens of childhood. Contrib...
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563,56 |
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Infrastructural Being: Rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world
ISBN: 9783031158261 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized in environmental humanities and social sciences to emphasize the inherent messiness of the lived world and the inseparability of social and biophysical elements. Concept of naturecultures stresses that seemingly “natural” is always simultaneously “cultural” and vice versa. This approach allows fleshing out the messy engagements with infrastructures, which in this book is conceptualized as...
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach. The...
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563,56 |
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Sulfate Karst of Perm Region (Russia)
ISBN: 9783031189715 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides a characteristic of sulfate karst, the features of its distribution and development in the Perm region, based on their own research and generalization of data accumulated in recent years. An updated zoning of the territory is given, partly based on the use of GIS technologies. This book also offers a detailed description of areas with characteristics of geological and hydrogeological conditions for the development of karst and karst phenomena. Besides, it also provides a detailed description of a number of caves, information about specially protected natural areas associated...
The book provides a characteristic of sulfate karst, the features of its distribution and development in the Perm region, based on their own research ...
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603,81 |
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Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility
ISBN: 9789004514508 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of unequal development, exclusionary citizenship, and forced migrations. The volume offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. They proceed from the idea that cities may accommodate both a humanistic sensibility and a radical potential for social transformation. The figure of the ‘migrant’ is pivotal....
Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of uneq...
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650,15 |
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Global Marx: History and Critique of the Social Movement in the World Market
ISBN: 9789004520691 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Marx is a collective research on Marx's account of capital's domination through his critique of disciplinary languages, investigation of political structures and analysis of specific political spaces within the world market. His discourse appears here as global not only because global is the geography of the world market but also because Marx redefined the relationships between the spaces on which capital exerts its command. Global Marx proves that Marx's texts do not identify any global working class, nor a centre of power to be conquered, but show that, within and against the world...
Global Marx is a collective research on Marx's account of capital's domination through his critique of disciplinary languages, investigation of politi...
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492,92 |
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Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781800739161 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,78 |
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Ultra-Intensity Patriarchy: Care and Gender Violence on the Paraná Tri-Border Area
ISBN: 9783030857523 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the experiences of women living and working across the busiest and most transited frontier in South America, the Paraná Tri-Border Area (TBA), between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. From a feminist approach, it shows how, in these territories, the gender violence is intensified, configuring an expression of ultra-intensity patriarchy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted for two years along with Paraguayan women living and working between Ciudad del Este (Paraguay), and Foz de Iguazú (Brazil), the authors analyze, on the one hand, the intricate connection... This book analyzes the experiences of women living and working across the busiest and most transited frontier in South America, the Paraná Tri-Bor... |
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563,56 |
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Contemporary Kazakh Proverb Research: Digital, Cognitive, Literary, and Ecological Approaches
ISBN: 9781433195884 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume is a feast of contemporary Kazakh proverb research. You are invited to the low table, the Kazakh dastarkhan, where special dishes cover the table. Everything is within easy reach, and each of the delicacies is homemade, with a distinctive Kazakh flavor.
This edited volume is a feast of contemporary Kazakh proverb research. You are invited to the low table, the Kazakh dastarkhan, where special dishes c...
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162,07 |
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New Directions in Art, Fashion, and Wine: Sustainability, Digitalization, and Artification
ISBN: 9781666904093 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, the contributors argue that deep-seated business practices in the worlds of art, fashion, and wine must be overturned to move towards environmental and social sustainability.
In this book, the contributors argue that deep-seated business practices in the worlds of art, fashion, and wine must be overturned to move towards en...
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412,91 |
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The Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture
ISBN: 9781666918557 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture, Isaac E. Catt offers a unique criticism of naturalistic reductions of humans to animals, to neuro substrates and to DNA. Catt explores a new interpretation of Plessner and Bourdieu, revealing the combinatory logic of semiotic phenomenology in both and their common problematic of communication. Through an emergent synthesis of philosophical anthropology and communicology, this book provides a basis for criticism of the failed mechanistic medical model in psychiatry, a fresh argument for reconceptualizing...
In The Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture, Isaac E. Catt offers a unique criticism of naturalistic reductions...
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374,05 |
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Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music
ISBN: 9781793648341 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music examines the intersection between popular music from the 1990s-tango, rock chabon, and cumbia villera-historical events, and individual experiences, arguing that these songs depict history, provide a framework to evoke memories, and create "virtual sites of memory" online.
Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music examines the intersection between popular music from the 1990s-tango, rock chabon, and cumbia villera-hi...
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354,62 |
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Cahokian Dispersions: Diasporic Connections in the Mississippian Southeast
ISBN: 9789811973642 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the possibility and role of a Cahokian diaspora to understand cultural influence, complexity, historicity, and movements in the Mississippian Southeast. Collectively the chapters trace how the movements of Cahokian and American Bottom materials, substances, persons, and non-human bodies converged in the creation of Cahokian identities both within and outside of the Cahokia homeland through archaeological case studies that demonstrate the ways in which population movements foment social change. Drawing initial inspiration from theories of diaspora, the book explores the...
This book examines the possibility and role of a Cahokian diaspora to understand cultural influence, complexity, historicity, and movements in the Mis...
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483,04 |