ISBN: 9780520242289 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 226 Rok wydania: 2004
Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold kanon in the field of film criticism....
ISBN: 9780520266728 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2014
Some 300 species of amphibians inhabit North America. The past two decades have seen an enormous growth in interest about amphibians and an increased intensity of scientific research into their...
ISBN: 9780520271456 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2011
In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the...
ISBN: 9780520289987 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2018
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time...
ISBN: 9780520272927 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2012
Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an...
ISBN: 9780520258112 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 278 Rok wydania: 2008
"Adventures in Yiddishland" examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the...
ISBN: 9780520049468 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 366 Rok wydania: 1992
In "Religion and Nothingness" the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the...
ISBN: 9780520280489 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2013
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady...
ISBN: 9780520266988 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 1560 Rok wydania: 2011
A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, "The Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen" is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as...
ISBN: 9780520242272 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2004
Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold kanon in the field of film criticism....
ISBN: 9780520063297 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 464 Rok wydania: 1988
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian...
ISBN: 9780520251236 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 346 Rok wydania: 2007
Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles' career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic...
ISBN: 9780520389700 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 530 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780520274907 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 440 Rok wydania: 2012
Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American mafia....
ISBN: 9780520267596 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 390 Rok wydania: 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic...
ISBN: 9780520045484 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 608 Rok wydania: 1983
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of...
ISBN: 9780520204782 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 125 Rok wydania: 1996
A collection of essays covering a range of topics and includes titles such as "Outer Space and Inner Space," "What Is an Aesthetic Fact?," "As I Saw Children's Art,"...
ISBN: 9780520282353 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2014
A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine....
ISBN: 9780520292697 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 184 Rok wydania: 2017
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. This book explores the recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores...
ISBN: 9780520219311 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 520 Rok wydania: 1999
For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now...