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PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-38554-9
EAN 9780226385549
In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by tracing the many ways ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-41910-7
EAN 9780226419107
In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she ...
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The Wandering Mind
What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-226-41891-9
EAN 9780226418919
If we've done our job well and, let's be honest, if we're lucky you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is. That may be bad news for me, but is ...
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Executing Freedom
The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
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PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-06669-1
EAN 9780226066691
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-33449-3
EAN 9780226334493
In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties but nothing could prepare ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39283-7
EAN 9780226392837
Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book asks how we might ensure the latter while avoiding the former.Looking past the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
ISBN 978-0-9861325-9-9
EAN 9780986132599
Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom, ancient economy, and kinship. A comprehensive and comparative history of words ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-39638-5
EAN 9780226396385
From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too, was hit hard by the Red ...
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PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-226-01066-3
EAN 9780226010663
What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41261-0
EAN 9780226412610
It's 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the "Beef Bonanza" is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life disappear in a blaze of drought ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42166-7
EAN 9780226421667
Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41969-5
EAN 9780226419695
A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual toolkit available to answer this question has been inadequate, and economists and other social scientists have been diverted from identifying ...
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A Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39378-0
EAN 9780226393780
'We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.'So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42328-9
EAN 9780226423289
In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1981, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-226-27697-7
EAN 9780226276977
Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing racial and immigrant groups and perhaps best known for his zealous pursuit of harsh drug penalties ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,85 €
ISBN 978-0-226-31328-3
EAN 9780226313283
The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels. In The ...
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PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42071-4
EAN 9780226420714
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-39445-9
EAN 9780226394459
We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche's thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing questions of our own era. Putting Nietzsche into conversation with contemporary philosophers such as Deleuze, Agamben, Foucault, Derrida, ...
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PVP: 34,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-39669-9
EAN 9780226396699
This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped its identity over the past hundred years. The blues have been one of the most ubiquitous but diverse elements of American popular music at large, and the visual art associated with this ...
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