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'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY 'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER SAUNDERS, THE TIMES 'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES 'An entertaining, clever book' TELEGRAPH The international bestseller and……続きを見る

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can German……続きを見る

A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter howーo……続きを見る

First published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over……続きを見る

Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in ga……続きを見る

Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, li……続きを見る

First published in 2006. 'As perfume is an art, it should be revealed to artists' was the passionate belief of the author, the renowned French cosmetic chemist R-M Gattefosse, who coined the term 'a……続きを見る

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynami……続きを見る

The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into……続きを見る

Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and iconicity of the built environment in the Arab Gulf Region, its aesthetics, language and performative charact……続きを見る

Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World historie……続きを見る

In this original and eye-opening study, Stefan Morawski sheds light on the often confused debate about postmodernism, postmodernity and human values. Drawing upon a wide range of evidence from the e……続きを見る

According to some social critics, the digital age involves a retreat into the isolation of intelligent machines. Acclaimed scholar Stefana Broadbent takes another view, that digital technologies all……続きを見る

The importance of social media as a way to monitor an electoral campaign is well established. Day-by-day, hour-by-hour evaluation of the evolution of online ideas and opinion allows observers and sc……続きを見る

»Six Feet Under« ist das, was passiert, wenn HBO sich der Familienserie zuwendet. Leben und Sterben in L.A., im ganz und gar unglamourösen Milieu der amerikanischen Mittelschicht, die hier in dritte……続きを見る

This is the second volume in a trilogy in which Stefan Zweig builds a composite picture of the European mind through intellectual portraits selected from among its most representative and influentia……続きを見る

From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms of Detroit, London, ……続きを見る

Nonostante il pastoralismo, stile di vita nomade o seminomade legato all'allevamento del bestiame, sia nato proprio nell’Iran centrale, fra i monti Zagros (la parola 'nomade' proviene dal greco 'nom……続きを見る

A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States. Building on the 1991 publication Wha……続きを見る

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China’s cit……続きを見る

Die Autorin Julia Shaw hat mit ihrem Buch “Böse: Die Psychologie unserer Abgründe” viel Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Sie behauptet, dass das Böse nicht nur in den Gehirnen von Massenmördern, sondern in je……続きを見る

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and e……続きを見る

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only o……続きを見る

This book sets forth the concepts relating to viewpoints concerning life. It identifies the principle behind these concepts and traces each such concept back to its source and origin, whether it ema……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 2, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Di……続きを見る

I Celti, generalmente associati a Irlanda, Scozia, Galles e Bretagna, sono in realtà alla radice di gran parte delle nazioni europee. La presenza celtica in parte dell’Italia settentrionale è altret……続きを見る

How can we make sense of race in Europe? In public discourse, race is understood as an outdated concept and as a reminiscence of a past that has been overcome. Drawing on intersectional feminist the……続きを見る

This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking. For most of the 20th Century, the Western was a major American genre. The pr……続きを見る

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, fr……続きを見る

While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus are often considered to represent some of the highest values of Western civilizationーdemocracy, progress, aesthetic harmony, and rationalismー……続きを見る