ISBN: 9780520269163 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 450 Rok wydania: 2010
For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. To respond to it meant to fashion from the available cultural and personal material...
ISBN: 9780520280410 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 568 Rok wydania: 2013
Offers an account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
ISBN: 9780520260092 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2009
Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century BC devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. This...
ISBN: 9780520204515 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 250 Rok wydania: 1996
The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence...
ISBN: 9780520054226 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 408 Rok wydania: 1992
What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? Here we see highly trained and qualified women anthropologists examining their own efforts to live and work in...
ISBN: 9780520302587 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 232 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780520276116 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2013
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be...
ISBN: 9780520228672 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 278 Rok wydania: 2002
In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious--Fluxus artists worked with minimal and...
ISBN: 9780520268609 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2013
The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and...
ISBN: 9780520253971 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 694 Rok wydania: 2008
20th anniversary edition with annotations referring to all editions of the text.
ISBN: 9780520292475 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 502 Rok wydania: 2016
Compares the metaphysical and mystical thought-systems of Sufism and Taoism and discovers that, although historically unrelated, the two share features and patterns which prove fruitful for a...
ISBN: 9780520270572 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2012
"Over the past 55 million years, mammals have returned to the sea many times and in many places. Annalisa Berta leads readers through this parade of transitions, highlighting how marine mammals...
ISBN: 9780520250505 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 896 Rok wydania: 2008
This long-awaited work details major vintages from 2006 back to 1959 and includes thousands of recent tasting notes of top wines.
ISBN: 9780520272910 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2012
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery...
ISBN: 9780520355521 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2020
Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals--from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep-diving elephant seals and clam-eating...
ISBN: 9780520269996 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2011
The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people...
ISBN: 9780520240544 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2004
Feminism, western culture and the body.
ISBN: 9780520274464 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 280 Rok wydania: 2012
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers...
ISBN: 9780520243767 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 496 Rok wydania: 2009
This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of...
ISBN: 9780520208230 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 728 Rok wydania: 1997
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be...