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The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the...

Author: Ariel Wilkis
ISBN: 9781503604285
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero: moral y economâia en el mundo...  Read More >>

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor

The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the...

Author: Ariel Wilkis
ISBN: 9781503602861
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero: moral y economâia en el mundo...  Read More >>

Toys and Playthings: In Development and Remediation

Toys and Playthings: In Development and Remediation...

Author: John Newson ,  Elizabeth Newson
ISBN: 9781138505971
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household Appliances

Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household...

Author: Wang Min’an ,  Shaobo Xie
ISBN: 9780415784856
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Unconventional, creative, and highly original, this book centres on the assemblage of household machines that create...  Read More >>

Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England

Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean...

Author: Natasha Awais-Dean
ISBN: 9780861592098
Format: Paperback
$211.20

Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much jewellery...  Read More >>

Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery

Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology...

Author: Grace Turner
ISBN: 9781683400202
Format: Hardback
$151.80

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Masked Warriors: The Battle Stage of the Samurai

Masked Warriors: The Battle Stage of the Samurai

Author: Bas Verberk
ISBN: 9789087282905
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Masked Warriors provides new insights into the approach of form, function and meaning of Japanese armour masks,...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object

The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman...

Author: Elizabeth Ezra (University of Stirling, UK)
ISBN: 9781501328855
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Traces the progressive redrawing of the boundaries between human beings and things as represented in cinema through...  Read More >>

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still...

Author: Cristobal Young
ISBN: 9781503603806
Format: Paperback
$63.36

In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income...  Read More >>

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still...

Author: Cristobal Young
ISBN: 9781503601147
Format: Hardback
$250.80

In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income...  Read More >>

Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

Author: Scot Barnett ,  Casey Boyle
ISBN: 9780817359102
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Argues that the field of rhetoric's recent attention to material objects should go further than simply open a new...  Read More >>

Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture

Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture...

Author: Andrea Rizzi
ISBN: 9789004323858
Format: Leather / fine binding
$496.32

The chapters in this volume share an aim to historicize the role of the translator as a cultural and political agent...  Read More >>

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The...

Author: Marc Kalinowski ,  Donald Harper
ISBN: 9789004310193
Format: Hardback
$575.52

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the daybook manuscripts found...  Read More >>

Interpretations of Luxury: Exploring the Consumer Perspective

Interpretations of Luxury: Exploring the Consumer Perspective...

Author: Linda Lisa Maria Turunen
ISBN: 9783319608693
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Exploring the elements that constitute the perceived luxuriousness of a brand, this book addresses the changing...  Read More >>

Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique

Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique

Author: Tereza Kuldova (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350049499
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary...  Read More >>

Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life...

Author: Niki Brantmark
ISBN: 9780008260101
Format: Hardback
$24.99

Uncover the secrets of the Swedish philosophy of life called Lagom – meaning ‘just enough’. At its core is the idea...  Read More >>

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