Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory
ISBN: 9781137386717 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development.
Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical as...
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Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order
ISBN: 9780415747684 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this third edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia, Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management. Building on the framework from the first edition, which inspired the establishment of the ASEAN Political-Security community, this new edition has been extensively updated and revised based on new primary sources that are not publicly available. Updates for this edition include: Expanded and updated coverage of the South...
In this third edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia, Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolut...
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Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9780746312247 / Angielski / Miękka / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content.
This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content...
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Voices of Southeast Asia: Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present
ISBN: 9780765636669 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning more than a millennium, this anthology gathers literary sources from across the entire region of Southeast Asia. Its 24 selections derive from a variety of genres and reflect the diverse range of cultural influences the region has experienced. The literary excerpts illustrate the impact of religious and ideological currents from early Buddhism to Islam and Roman Catholicism. The selections reveal how cultural influences from South Asia, China, the Arabic world, and Europe arrived in Southeast Asia and left their marks in the realms of literature, society, and culture. The readings...
Spanning more than a millennium, this anthology gathers literary sources from across the entire region of Southeast Asia. Its 24 selections derive fro...
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890,27 zł |
The Dragon and the Eagle: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese and Roman Empires
ISBN: 9780765643698 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative is clear, completely jargon-free, strikingly independent, and addresses the complete cycles of two world empires. It begins with the births of empire builders, the investiture of the state of Qin in 771 BCE and the foundation of the Roman Republic in 509 BCE. The stories end with the fall of northern China in 316 CE and the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, each to a multitude of...
This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and genera...
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The Dragon and the Eagle: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese and Roman Empires
ISBN: 9780765643704 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative is clear, completely jargon-free, strikingly independent, and addresses the complete cycles of two world empires. It begins with the births of empire builders, the investiture of the state of Qin in 771 BCE and the foundation of the Roman Republic in 509 BCE. The stories end with the fall of northern China in 316 CE and the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, each to a multitude of...
This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and genera...
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274,66 zł |
Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam
ISBN: 9780814769959 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in creating the public image that made it appealing and captivating. Women of the Nation draws on oral histories and interviews with approximately 100 women across several cities to provide an overview of women's historical contributions and their varied experiences of the NOI,... With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious... |
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China and the Global Economy in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781138017030 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As China continues to ride out the global economic crisis while still retaining year on year GDP growth it is increasingly important to understand how this 'new' economic giant, with its communist-capitalist model operates its economic and business environments. This book is designed to scientifically examine the contextual variables that foster sustainably dynamic economic growth in China. In particular, the contributors provide an incisive analysis of the contextual bases underlying such a dramatic rising economic power and the immense implications for enterprises and countries involved... As China continues to ride out the global economic crisis while still retaining year on year GDP growth it is increasingly important to understand ... |
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188,18 zł |
Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion and Caste
ISBN: 9781138020184 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers insights into the current 'public-square' debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, modern Indian history, and politics.
This volume offers insights into the current 'public-square' debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous ana...
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712,22 zł |
Canned Heat: Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change
ISBN: 9781138020276 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture. The essays explore alternatives for sustainable development and highlight oft-overlooked issues, such as climate change refugees and food justice. Designed as four parts, the volume: first, offers an astute diagnosis of the political and moral intricacies of climate change; second, deals specifically with topics in the political theory of climate change governance; third, focuses on the moral theory...
Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy...
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661,34 zł |
Welcome to Iran!: Christian Encounters with Shia Muslims
ISBN: 9781491709054 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,80 zł |
Welcome to Iran!: Christian Encounters with Shia Muslims
ISBN: 9781491709061 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wedding Traditions from Around the World
ISBN: 9781491826683 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ernst Cassirer, Die Sprache: Nur Werkzeug zur Verständigung oder Teil eines größeren Bedeutungszusammenhanges?: Erläuterungen an Ernst Cassirers Sp
ISBN: 9783656263777 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Kultur, Technik und Volker, Note: 1,7, Technische Universitat Dresden (Institut fur Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Ernst Cassirer, zu einer Phanomenologie und Soziologie symbolischer Formen, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine der einflussreichsten und bedeutendsten literarischen Epochen in Deutschland ist zweifellos die Weimarer Klassik. Sie brachte Personlichkeiten wie Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottfried Herder, Christof Martin Wieland oder Johann Wolfgang von Goethe hervor. Der erste Gedanke an diesen...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Kultur, Technik und Volker, Note: 1,7, Technische Universitat Dresden (Institut fur Soziol...
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Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930
ISBN: 9780815633549 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Densely documented with personal accounts, drawing on interviews and letters to let the women tell their own stories. As the first full-length scholarly book on female Irish servants, it will be a valuable text for educators."-American Historical Review "Provides fresh glimpses into the working world and the social world that Irish domestic servants constructed and inhabited in the United States. . . . Lynch-Brennan's well-written work will be warmly welcomed by historians of Irish America and those interested in the experiences of immigrant women in the United States."-Journal of American...
"Densely documented with personal accounts, drawing on interviews and letters to let the women tell their own stories. As the first full-length schola...
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The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora : Revisiting the boat people
ISBN: 9780415704816 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee era (1975-1991), refugee settlement and different patterns of host-guest interactions that will have implications for refugee studies elsewhere. The book provides: a clearer historical understanding of the group dynamics among refugees - the ethnic Chinese 'Vietnamese refugees' from both the North and...
Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war...
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The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900
ISBN: 9781138008908 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scrutinising the impacts of Christianity in the late 19th-century China, using American Baptist and English Presbyterian examples in Guangdong province, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee examines the scale of Chinese conversions, the creation of Christian villages, and the power relations between Christians and non-Christians, and between different Christian denominations.
Scrutinising the impacts of Christianity in the late 19th-century China, using American Baptist and English Presbyterian examples in Guangdong provinc...
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264,48 zł |
Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture
ISBN: 9781421412832 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Felipe Hinojosa's parents first encountered Mennonite families as migrant workers in the tomato fields of northwestern Ohio. What started as mutual admiration quickly evolved into a relationship that strengthened over the years and eventually led to his parents founding a Mennonite Church in South Texas. Throughout his upbringing as a Mexican American evangelico, Hinojosa was faced with questions not only about his own religion but also about broader issues of Latino evangelicalism, identity, and civil rights politics. Latino Mennonites offers the first historical analysis of... Felipe Hinojosa's parents first encountered Mennonite families as migrant workers in the tomato fields of northwestern Ohio. What started as mutual... |
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Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora
ISBN: 9780415480109 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. In 2001, the government of India estimated that 20 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots to other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are three million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. This inter-disciplinary Handbook on the South...
South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. In 2001, the government of India estimated th...
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Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race
ISBN: 9780691161969 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly... This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exp... |
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149,94 zł |