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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects

The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects

Author: Carol Cooper
ISBN: 9780711294622
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A History of Medicine in 12 Objects is an entertaining and insightful guide through the instruments that have come...  Read More >>

Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life since 1800: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Parry

Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life...

Author: Paul Readman ,  Geraint Thomas
ISBN: 9781837650187
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Illuminates the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history.  Read More >>

Walking as Embodied Research: Drift, Pause, Indirection

Walking as Embodied Research: Drift, Pause, Indirection...

Author: Christian Ernsten ,  Nick Shepherd (Associate professor of Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.)
ISBN: 9781032010229
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores walking as a form of research practice. The contributions by a wide range of scholars and practitioners...  Read More >>

Nobel Genius: Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice

Nobel Genius: Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice...

Author: Nils Hansson ,  Ad Maas
ISBN: 9789087284138
Format: Hardback
$248.40

This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize.  Read More >>

German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945

German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic...

Author: Karen Hagemann ,  Konrad H. Jarausch
ISBN: 9781805397922
Format: Hardback
$341.55

The migration experiences, career paths, and scholarship of historians born in Germany who started emigrating to...  Read More >>

Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955...

Author: Isak Niehaus
ISBN: 9781805397687
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1995) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography...  Read More >>

Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography

Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography

Author: Julia Seeberger ,  Sabine Schmolinsky
ISBN: 9783111154749
Format: Hardback
$232.29

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The Theatre of Anxiety: Border Crossings in 21st-Century British Theatre

The Theatre of Anxiety: Border Crossings in 21st-Century...

Author: Leila Michelle Vaziri
ISBN: 9783111554914
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Against the background of multiple ecological, economic, political, or health crises, anxiety has become an overwhelming...  Read More >>

El Chivo Expiatorio

El Chivo Expiatorio

Author: Rene Girard ,  Joaquin Jorda
ISBN: 9788433926340
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Edipo es expulsado de Tebas como responsable de la epidemia que se abate sobre la ciudad. La Víctima está de acuerdo...  Read More >>

Toward a New Culture of the Material

Toward a New Culture of the Material

Author: Frank Bauer ,  Yoonha Kim
ISBN: 9783110714678
Format: Paperback
$89.95

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Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: 21st-Century ‘American’ Perspectives

Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: 21st-Century...

Author: Wilfried Raussert ,  Sarah-Lena Essifi
ISBN: 9783111379074
Format: Hardback
$261.33

Fostering a dialog between Critical Disability Studies, American Studies, InterAmerican Studies, and Global Health...  Read More >>

Semiotics of Images: The Analysis of Pictorial Texts

Semiotics of Images: The Analysis of Pictorial Texts...

Author: Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos ,  Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou
ISBN: 9783110991840
Format: Hardback
$430.29

The authors of this book have worked for many years within the Greimasian and post-Greimasian tradition. The book...  Read More >>

New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness: Affective Affinities and the Politics of Male Expressivity

New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness: Affective...

Author: Till Kadritzke
ISBN: 9783111425689
Format: Hardback
$290.37

In the late 1960s, the white counterculture enters the screens with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider; in 1976, a...  Read More >>

SEMIOTICS AND ITS MASTERS 2 (OLTEANU/COBLEY) SCC 36 PB

SEMIOTICS AND ITS MASTERS 2 (OLTEANU/COBLEY) SCC 36...

Author: Alin Olteanu ,  Paul Cobley
ISBN: 9783111627885
Format: Paperback
$58.05

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Transcending Signs: Essays in Existential Semiotics

Transcending Signs: Essays in Existential Semiotics...

Author: Eero Tarasti
ISBN: 9783111627120
Format: Paperback
$116.13

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Tensions of Social History: Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective

Tensions of Social History: Sources, Data, Actors and...

Author: Alessandro Stanziani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France)
ISBN: 9781350276857
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book seeks to overcome the tension between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ categories and tools in the study of...  Read More >>

The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference

The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference

Author: John D. Norton
ISBN: 9781773855400
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference

The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference

Author: John D. Norton
ISBN: 9781773855394
Format: Hardback
$446.13

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The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89

The Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89...

Author: Hugh Ouston
ISBN: 9781837652006
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Migration, Post-Socialism, and Diasporic Experiences. Fragmented Lives, Entangled Worlds / Migration, Postsozialismus und Diaspora-Erfahrungen. Fragmentierte Leben, verflochtene Welten

Migration, Post-Socialism, and Diasporic Experiences....

Author: Alina Jašina-Schäfer ,  Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne
ISBN: 9783111368047
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This issue aims to deepen our understanding of the mobility and complex diasporic experiences of individuals from...  Read More >>

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