Bellah, R: Axial Age and Its Consequences
This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but ...
Hersteller: University Presses Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
73,90 CHF
Jones, R: Wales Says Yes
The definitive account of the 2011 Referendum by Wales' two leading political analysts, that will prove as provocative as it is authoritative.
Hersteller: University of Wales Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
38,90 CHF
Avise, J: Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy
Covering both the internal and external incubation of offspring, this book provides a biology-rich survey of the natural history, ecology, genetics, and evolution of pregnancy-like phenomena. From mammals and other live-bearing ...
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143,00 CHF
Brickman, C: Short Course in Reading French
This textbook teaches the basics of French grammar, reinforcing its lessons with exercises and key practice translations. A systematic guide, the volume is a critical companion for university-level students learning to read and ...
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169,00 CHF
A Short Course in Reading French
This textbook teaches the basics of French grammar, reinforcing its lessons with exercises and key practice translations. A systematic guide, the volume is a critical companion for university-level students learning to read and ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
55,90 CHF
Boggs, C: Animalia Americana
Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and ...
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55,90 CHF
Piantadosi, C: Mankind Beyond Earth
Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its extraordinary achievements. He emphasizes the importance of continuing manned and unmanned space missions to American and human interests, and he ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
139,00 CHF
Reese, D: Hospice Social Work
The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the ...
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73,90 CHF
Pavsek, C: Utopia of Film
The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema¿s relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema¿s ability to bring about what Theodor W. ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
51,90 CHF
Duran, R: Gang Life in Two Cities
Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Duran, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted ...
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51,90 CHF
Will, S: How They Got Away With It
An international team of scholars with backgrounds in criminology, sociology, economics, business, government regulation, and law examine the historical, social, and cultural causes of the 2008 economic crisis. They also take stock of ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
51,90 CHF
Mosley, P: Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
42,90 CHF
Gornitz, V: Rising Seas
The Earth's climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming's most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep ...
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189,00 CHF
Williams, J: Critical Pulse
This unprecedented anthology asks thirty-six leading literary and cultural critics to elaborate on the nature of their profession. With the humanities feeling the pinch of financial and political pressures, and its disciplines resting ...
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51,90 CHF
Vaughan, H: Where Film Meets Philosophy
Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan ...
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153,00 CHF
Shusaku: Kiku's Prayer
A first English translation of a seminal work by the renowned Japanese-Catholic writer is set in the turbulent period between the fall of the shogunate and the Meiji Restoration and follows the experiences of rural villager Kiku, whose ...
Hersteller: Columbia University Press Lieferzeit: 1-2 Werktagen
58,90 CHF
Fein gehackt und grob gewürfelt
Mit Esprit gewürzt und Witz getränkt – Julian Barnes kocht Wer selber kocht, der weiss: Zwischen Rezept und fertigem Gericht können Welten liegen. Ob das Ergebnis zu Triumph oder Niederlage führt – bei der Lektüre des Rezepts ...
Eine Frau verschwindet / Quirke Band 3
Ein fesselnder und spannender Whodunit« Publishers Weekly Die junge Ärztin April ist verschwunden. Ihre Freunde machen sich Sorgen, denn es sieht ihr so gar nicht ähnlich, sich tagelang nicht zu melden. Ist April etwas ...
Stalins Kühe
Ein furioser Roman über ein in der Literatur nicht beachtetes Thema Anna hat alles im Griff. Sie dient einer »Herrin«, der Bulimie, denn es gibt nichts Wichtigeres für sie, als einen vollkommenen Körper zu besitzen und unangreifbar ...
