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  • - Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject
    af Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
    274,95 - 1.212,95 kr.

    This book examines Bakhtin as a Modernist, "exilic" thinker, engaged with the question of ethical subjectivity, aligned with contemporary Continental philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, and positioned at a crossroads of the human sciences.

  • - Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001
    af Milo Jones & Philippe Silberzahn
    390,95 - 1.420,95 kr.

    This book is an inquiry into the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four critical strategic surprises experienced by the US over a fifty-year period which still play out today.

  • - Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism
    af Peter Flueckiger
    779,95 kr.

    Imagining Harmony explores the diverse roles that poetry played for eighteenth-century Japanese intellectuals as an embodiment of human emotion, a form of linguistic and philological training, and a means for accessing the ancient cultures that they turned to as the source of their political ideals.

  • - Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus
    af John W. Budd & Stephen F. Befort
    397,95 - 2.327,95 kr.

    Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives reveals the unstated models and broad objectives of the employment relationship in order to bring coherence to debates over the full breadth of public policies on work-including employment and labor law, social safety nets, and work-family issues.

  • - Addiction, Indulgence, and Social Policy
    af Harold Winter
    317,95 - 1.405,95 kr.

    This book investigates the effectiveness of current drug and alcohol policies through an economic lens.

  • - Far-Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France
    af Sandrine Sanos
    782,95 kr.

    This book examines how a group of young far-right intellectuals in the 1930s reimagined the French nation through the lens of gender and race, connecting both antisemitism and colonial racism in order to define the "new French man."

  • - A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850-1950
    af Moramay Lopez-Alonso
    776,95 kr.

    Measuring Up uses new research tools and an interdisciplinary approach to provide the most in-depth analysis to date of role that governmental policies played in shaping levels of poverty, malnutrition, and inequality in Mexico between 1850 and 1950.

  • - Strategy, Valuation, and Deal Structure
    af Richard L. Smith, Janet Kiholm Smith & Richard T. Bliss
    753,95 kr.

    Entrepreneurial Finance applies current financial economics research and theory to the study of entrepreneurship and new venture finance.

  • - Paths of Serial Migration
    af Susan Ossman
    252,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    Tells the stories of people who have lived in several countries in order to reveal how mobility shapes subjectivity, social life, and politics.

  • - An Archaeology of Duty
    af Giorgio Agamben
    182,95 - 913,95 kr.

    In this book, Agamben investigates the roots of the modern moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.

  • - History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955
    af Jonathan Skolnik
    824,95 kr.

    This is a study of German historical novels about Jewish history from the 1800s through the Holocaust.

  • - Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970
    af David James Gill
    778,95 kr.

    The book explores how economic, political, and strategic considerations shaped British nuclear diplomacy during Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first two terms of office (1964-1970).

  • - Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels
    af Jill Campbell
    362,95 - 1.605,95 kr.

    The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries.

  • - Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing
    af Alina Clej
    1.297,95 kr.

    The author argues that De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity.

  • - Interviews, 1974-1994
    af Jacques Derrida
    360,95 - 1.492,95 kr.

    This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.

  • - The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age
    af John Wilson Lewis & Xue Litai
    342,95 - 722,95 kr.

    Using major new documentary sources, the authors tell the story of why and how China built its nuclear submarine flotilla and the impact of that development on the nation's politics, technology, industry, and strategy.

  • af Paul Zumthor
    276,95 kr.

    This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past-a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen-to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts. This classic work first appeared in English translation in 1963.

  • - Americans in the Spanish Civil War
    af Peter N. Carroll
    252,95 - 1.427,95 kr.

    A collective biography of the Americans who volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war that provides the first comprehensive, objective, and deeply researched account of the brigade's experience in Spain and what happened to the survivors when they returned to the United States.

  • - Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture
    af Robert McC. Netting
    317,95 - 1.508,95 kr.

    This work challenges the myth that only modern, large-scale, mechanized, scienti1c agriculture can provide the food needed for the world's rapidly growing population.

  • af Steven E. Sanderson
    264,95 - 607,95 kr.

    This synthesis and reconstruction of the role of trade in Latin American development asks what have been the political terms of trade in Latin America, and why have they differed so much from the multilateral and national trade politics of the advanced capitalist countries, especially the US?

  • - A Guide to the Fossil and Present-Day Species of Central Colorado
    af Marc C. Minno, Thomas C. Emmel & Boyce A. Drummond
    274,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    For much of the year, the Florissant region of central Colorado is alive with butterflies - nearly 100 species. This is an illustrated treatment of and guide to all the known fossil and present-day species in one of the richest areas in North America for butterfly diversity and study.

  • - Volume II: Descriptive Application
    af Ronald W. Langacker
    424,95 - 2.327,95 kr.

    Introduces a new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation. In contrast to current orthodoxy, the author argues that grammar is not autonomous with respect to semantics, but rather reduces to patterns for the structuring and symbolization of conceptual content.

  • - Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
    af John B. Thompson
    317,95 - 1.862,95 kr.

    In this work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive and new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.

  • - Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition
    af Patricia Ondek Laurence
    252,95 - 1.132,95 kr.

    This is a study of Virginia Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable.

  • - Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
    af Rene Girard, Walter Burkert & Jonathan Z. Smith
    379,95 kr.

    Includes papers and conversations that derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence.

  • af Ono Kazuko
    407,95 - 1.533,95 kr.

    Spanning the century from the Taiping Rebellion through the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this book is a comprehensive history of women in modern China. Its historical scope is broad, touching upon most aspects of life and drawing upon little known Chinese and Japanese sources.

  • - Essays Toward a Unified Analysis
    af Maurice Bloch
    431,95 - 2.062,95 kr.

  • af Joseph H. Greenberg
    977,95 kr.

    A book, that is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. This book examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant language genetically, is not to be included in Na-Dene.

  • - Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis
    af Natalie Zemon Davis
    377,95 - 1.862,95 kr.

  • af Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    424,95 - 1.843,95 kr.

    "The Frame translation of the complete essays was initially published in 1957 in The complete works of Montaigne."--T.p. verso.

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