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HarperCollins
viernes, 17 de mayo de 2024
A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum ResurrectionThroughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borde...9999903125211Clifford A. Pickover
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Power, Control and the Fight for Our FutureFreedom is foundational to our democracy, our way of life - our very conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are? In Creating Freedom, Rao...9999903124436Raoul Martinez
CANONGATE
martes, 14 de mayo de 2024
Adventures in Community LivingIn 1972, at the height of the counter-culture movement, several hundred hippies drove their school buses into southern rural Tennessee and founded America's largest, modern-day int...9999903112495Rupert Fike
Summertown, Tenn. : Book Pub. Co., c2002.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
When More is Not EnoughDespite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, d...9999903112075Peter C. Whybrow
W. W. Norton & Company
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
An IntroductionThis exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an interna...9999903111047Jarvie, Grant
Routledge
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Ten Reason We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think*the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller * Au...9999903108191Hans Rosling Ola Rosling ...
Hodder
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most under-appreciated forces: shame."superb ...9999903108122Jon Ronson
Pan Books
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
Coleridge to OrwellAcknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to in...9999903103059Raymond Williams
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 3 de abril de 2024
Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border ??a wor...9999903101765Urrea, Luis Alberto
Editors Varis
sábado, 30 de marzo de 2024
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of KnowledgeIs public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among s...9999903101215Norma M. Riccucci
Editors Varis
sábado, 30 de marzo de 2024
-- Presents comprehensive and honest accounts of the life and culture of American Indians-- Examines the issues and conflicts involving Native Americans today-- Discusses many less...9999903099338Nancy Bonvillain
Editors Varis
miércoles, 27 de marzo de 2024
From Ancient Empires to Internet DatingFrom Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and offers insights from leading figu...9999903097327Brooke Harrington
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. In MORANTHOLOGY Caitli...9999903091196Moran, Caitlin
Editors Varis
viernes, 8 de marzo de 2024
Race, ethnicity and culture are concepts of extreme relevance in society today, and yet continue to be interpreted in various and often contradictory ways. The Dictionary provides ...9999903086680Guido Bolaffi
London ; Sage, 1999.
sábado, 24 de febrero de 2024
The Political Economy of Carbon MarketsUpsetting the Offset engages critically with the political economy of carbon markets. It presents a range of case studies and critiques from around the world, showing how the scam ...9999903083023Steffen Böhm
Editors Varis
viernes, 16 de febrero de 2024
Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era"Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to-as Time Magazine has asserted-"one of the most important figures in popular culture." Throu...9999903081128Janice Peck
Editors Varis
jueves, 8 de febrero de 2024
Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter MovementSensitivity training, T-Groups, and encounter groups have become a way of life. Beyond Words traces the history of this movement, the background of its successes, its varieties, an...9999903079958Kurt W. Back
Editors Varis
martes, 6 de febrero de 2024
American News Media and the Psychedelic ExperienceNow synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpet...9999903076445Stephen Siff
University of Illinois Press
jueves, 1 de febrero de 2024
The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and FilmNew York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that ??s emb...9999903074182Spitz, Marc
HarperCollins
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and MachinesA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand? George Dyson plots an un...9999903074038George Dyson
Allen Lane
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
The Lowest-Common-Denominator SocietyAs entertainers, corporations, and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator, American life becomes increasingly vicarious, prefabricated, and bereft of meaning. ...9999903067733John B. Arden
New York : Praeger, 1976, c1975.
martes, 16 de enero de 2024
Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War EraCertainly, religious strains were evident through postwar popular culture from the 1950s Beat generation into the 1960s drug counterculture, but the explosion of nontraditional rel...9999903067702Stephen A. Kent
Syracuse [N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 2001.
martes, 16 de enero de 2024
Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the PostmodernMedia Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music, and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that media culture is ...9999903065562Douglas Kellner
Routledge
sábado, 13 de enero de 2024
A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern MedicineThe loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these ar...9999903063599Andrew Scull
London; Thames & Hudson
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
Selected ReadingsIncludes important contribution to the main developments in the study of kinship; Reprints excerpt from Radcliffe-Browns The social organisation of Australian tribes q.v. for annot...9999903062981Jack Goody
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 9 de enero de 2024
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