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  • - Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish
    af James Alan Matisoff
    231,95 - 1.028,95 kr.

    In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions-from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. A rarity among scholarly books, it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation.

  • - Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare
    af Harry Berger
    317,95 - 722,95 kr.

    This collection contains 14 essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, making available for the full scope of Berger's unique approach to ethical discourses in Shakespeare's plays.

  • af Richard Graham
    342,95 - 767,95 kr.

    Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, one of the leading historians on Brazil explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians.

  • - Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China
    af Peter K. Bol
    500,95 - 1.818,95 kr.

    Addressing one of the great themes in premodern Chinese history, this book traces the transformation of the shared culture of the Chinese learned elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries.

  • af W. G. Beasley
    370,95 - 995,95 kr.

    Did the activities of the Western powers prompt changes in Japan that would not otherwise have taken place? Or did they merely hasten a process that had already begun? This book deals with these questions that concerns the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events.

  • - Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property
    af Jessica Silbey
    272,95 - 1.221,95 kr.

  • - Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue
    af David Decosimo
    414,95 - 1.515,95 kr.

  • - Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864
    af James A. Millward
    388,95 - 1.421,95 kr.

    This book examines the fiscal and ethnic policies of the Qing empire in a region that constitutes the westernmost sixth of the People's Republic of China, showing how policies changed as a result of declining dynastic resources and the growing importance of Chinese merchants on the frontier.

  • - Bridging Theoretical Divides in International Relations
    af Fred Chernoff
    287,95 - 1.316,95 kr.

  • - Expanded Edition
    af Samuel Weber
    369,95 - 1.797,95 kr.

    This book investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Weber suggests that institutions are never entirely free of the necessity of consolidating their authority through an ambivalent process of reinstituting themselves, a process in which interpretation plays a crucial role.

  • - A Twenty-Year Analysis
    af John W. Boudreau, III Lawler & Edward E.
    485,95 kr.

    Global Trends in Human Resource Management draws on twenty years of data collected by the Center for Effective Organizations to chart the changing nature of HR practice, and show how it can meet the demands of an evolving global marketplace.

  • - Civil War as a Political Paradigm
    af Giorgio Agamben
    162,95 - 892,95 kr.

    A first step toward a viable theory of the manifold internal conflicts that afflict the world's populations today, this book looks at how civil war was conceived of at two crucial moments in the history of Western thought, in ancient Athens (from which the political concept of stasis emerges) and later, in the work of Thomas Hobbes.

  • af Bill Brugger & Stephen Reglar
    312,95 - 1.547,95 kr.

    This analytic overview of contemporary Chinese politics focuses on six major themes: agriculture, urban life and industry, law and policing, intellectuals, women and the family, and minority nationalities.

  • af Niklas Luhmann
    247,95 - 1.212,95 kr.

    In The Reality of the Mass Media, Luhmann extends his theory of social systems-applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences, and law-to an examination of the role of mass media in the construction of social reality.

  • - From the Religion to the Reality of Sustainable Prosperity
    af John Zysman & Mark Huberty
    747,95 - 2.197,95 kr.

  • af Thomas Nail
    253,95 - 1.122,95 kr.

    At a time when more people than ever are being constrained to move for political, economic, and environmental reasons, this book provides a new political theory of migration, one based on the social primacy of movement.

  • - A Theory of a City
    af David Kishik
    231,95 - 342,95 kr.

    The Manhattan Project is a sharp and witty study of a book never written: an imaginary sequel to Walter Benjamin'sArcades Project, dedicated to New York, capital of the twentieth century.

  • - Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age
    af Adi Kuntsman & Rebecca L. Stein
    231,95 - 1.267,95 kr.

    Digital Militarism considers how social media has become a crucial site in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.

  • - Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia
    af Amelie Le Renard
    252,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    This book joins young Saudi women in their daily lives-in the workplace, on the female university campus, at the mall-to show how these women are transforming the country from within and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles.

  • - A Life
    af Anita Shapira
    887,95 kr.

    "Originally published in Hebrew in 2008 under the title Brenner: Sippur hayim."

  • - What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations
    af Christian Stadler
    507,95 kr.

    Enduring Success explores how some of the world's top-performing and longest-standing companies have consistently beat their competitors for more than 100 years.

  • - Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume Two
    af Pauline Wengeroff
    775,95 kr.

    This is the second volume of an unabridged, critical edition of Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother, the only full-scale memoir by a woman to chronicle Russian Jewish society's shift from traditionalism to modernity through the experience of women and families.

  • - Second Edition
    af J. A. English-Lueck
    292,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

  • - Community and Inequality in Comedy
    af Michael P. Jeffries
    296,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

  • - People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
    af Londa Schiebinger
    233,95 - 1.077,95 kr.

    This book explores the history of drug development and testing in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, looking especially at whether slaves were exploited in human medical experiments at the time.

  • - Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices
    af Jeffrey Shandler
    252,95 - 1.117,95 kr.

    Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age examines the nexus of new media and memory practices through an in-depth study of the Shoah Visual History Archive, the world's largest and most widely available collection of video interviews with Holocaust survivors, to understand how advances in digital technologies impact the practice of Holocaust remembrance.

  • - Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law
    af Sora Y. Han
    296,95 - 1.062,95 kr.

    This book is a deconstruction of the fantasy of colorblindness founding American law.

  • - State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes
    af Isaias Rojas-Perez
    356,95 - 1.312,95 kr.

  • - Making Sense of the Arab Spring
    af Asef Bayat
    296,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

  • - Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan
    af Kent E. Calder
    354,95 - 1.320,95 kr.

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