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  • Psychology of Revolution
    Gustave Lebon
    The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. ...
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    27,92 €

  • Fei Xiaotong Studies, Vol. II, Chinese edition
    The year 2016 was a significant year for honouring Professor Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), because it was the 80th anniversary of his fieldwork in Kaixiangong Village.Fei Xiaotong Studies (Volume 2) consists of articles by authors from the UK, Japan, USA, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The main articles focus on Fei Xiaotong and related studies, with China in comparative perspective...
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    73,94 €

  • CHINA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES
    Wenxian Zhang / ZHANG WENXIAN
    Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictur...
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    159,39 €

  • Growing Up in Transit
    Danau Tanu
    In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being "international" that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnat...
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    184,05 €

  • Permaculture Plants
    Jeff Nugent
    The comprehensive guide to edible  and useful Agaves and Cacti. Productive plants for land rehabilitation. Plants which survive uncertain rainfall. Drought and snow resistant plants. Staples  of  ancient  cultures. Low effort emergency food. Extensively  indexed. Over 400 useful species covered. ...
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    26,20 €

  • Canibalismo en la Cueva de Malamuerzo
    Ana Solari Giachino / Inmaculada Alemán Aguilera / Miguel Botella López
    This volume focuses on: the identification of indelible traces recorded on bones; on human actions associated with these marks; and finally on human behaviours that led to actions performed on bodies around the time of death. The research joins a long line of studies focused on cannibalism recognition, as one of the behaviours associated with death carried out by different soci...
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    80,05 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    "Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites." -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    44,45 €

  • Soils and Societies
    Described in Nature as ’a delight for the soil aficionado’, this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. F...
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    50,36 €

  • Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities
    Edited by H. L. Cobb, F. Coward, L. Grimshaw and S. Price.This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled "Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory" and "Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic". The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theo...
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    60,70 €

  • Cypriana
    'A restoration of Justina’s place in the Cyprianic pantheon.' -JHDSAINT CYPRIAN of Antioch and (to a far lesser extent) SAINT JUSTINA of Antioch have experienced a resurgence of interest in the English-speaking world. It has been remarked that they stand at a crossroads of the so-called Old and New Worlds, forming an intermediary nexus of Christian thaumaturgy and older pagan m...
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    51,75 €

  • Localism in the Mass Age
    In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing. So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at a...
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    26,75 €

  • The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas
    Robert Grant Haliburton
    Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years proposing the existence of a distinctive tribal group of small stature within the Atlas Mountains and vicinity. He collected local stories and eyewitness accounts of this 'dwarf people,' debated critics, and published theories. These curious tales disappeared (or at least were never investigated fully) after Haliburton died, but he l...
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    18,62 €

  • Una deidad tenaz
    Gabriel Espinosa Pineda
    Este libro compendia las transformaciones y extrañas formas que encarna una antigua deidad prehispánica; sostiene la tesis de que precede incluso a casi todos los dioses conocidos de las culturas mesoamericanas: Para los humanos fue un dios mucho antes del descubrimiento de la agricultura. Desde entonces debió tener un culto y una forma de ser imaginado, sin duda representado. ...
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    83,72 €

  • Cultural Influences and International Students
    Kruti S. Chaliawala
    Navigating the intricate landscape of U.S. higher education can be profoundly challenging for international students. This groundbreaking work offers a vital, dual perspective, interweaving deeply personal lived experiences with rigorous academic research to illuminate the multifaceted journey of cultural and academic adaptation.Beyond the author’s compelling narrative in the p...
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    55,87 €

  • A Redação Jurídica Com Chatgpt
    Celestino Joanguete
    A Evolução Da Tecnologia Tem Impactado Significativamente Todas As Áreas Do Conhecimento, E O Campo Jurídico Não É Exceção. Com O Advento Da Era Digital, Novos Desafios E Oportunidades Surgiram Na Prática Da Redação Jurídica, Exigindo Uma Adaptação Por Parte Dos Profissionais Do Direito. A Redação Jurídica Sempre Foi Uma Habilidade Essencial Para Os Advogados E Demais Profissio...
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    11,96 €

  • La dimensión corpórea y sexuada, una perspectiva esencial en la comprensión del ser humano
    Carlos Beorlegui
    La tarea de reflexionar sobre la esencia humana es una pretensión llena de complejidades. Somos una especie cuya realización depende en gran medida de nuestra libertad. Debemos, pues, enfrentarnos a los retos que nos plantean los diversos movimientos feministas y la pluralidad de identidades sexuales del movimiento LGTBIQ+. ...
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    26,52 €

  • Indigenous Women’s Resilience, Leadership and Social Change
    This book provides an in-depth exploration of women’s resilience, leadership and empowerment through Indigenous knowledge and their crucial roles in various socio-cultural contexts across the world. It challenges the conventional narrative, highlighting the strength and resilience of Indigenous women in their communities that are historically marginalized. By interconnecting kn...
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    205,95 €

  • Weaving and Wearing Identity
    This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments. Identity is a crucial topic in archaeology where its concept is investigated through the study of many categories of material culture. As self-representa...
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    182,62 €

  • Settler Colonialism in Liberia
    Franka Vaughan
    This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates. It discusses Liberia as representing an interesting puzzle on the distinction between settler colonialism and postcolonialism. While Liberia is often heralded as one of two African count...
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    180,61 €

  • Grace or Money
    Justin Pack
    Justin Pack’s Grace or Money: Rediscovering the Gift of Grace in an Age of Greed is a provocative and timely exploration of two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world: the divine 'order of grace' and the human-made 'order of money.' Drawing from scripture, anthropology, and philosophy, Pack challenges the modern assumption that scarcity is natural, arguing inst...
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    22,45 €

  • Amand de Puységur (1751-1825) ou la rage des faits
    Marie-Claire Latry
    À la fin du XVIIIe et au XIXe siècle, somnambules et magnétiseurs se multiplient en Occident. Amand de Puységur (1751-1825), inventeur du somnambulisme provoqué, joue un rôle central dans ce phénomène. Les Sociétés de l’Harmonie , qu’il inspire dès 1784, diffusent cette nouvelle médecine. Après 1805, il tente de regagner une place scientifique, notamment aux côtés de Pinel. Pa...
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    42,22 €

  • Why We Hurt
    John Dishwasher
    Across eons our ancestors evolved to behave in one way. But through recent millennia we humans have been trained to behave in a different way. The disconnect between how we evolved to behave and how we are now trained to behave creates a break within us, a rift. When we feel empty or vulnerable, or just somehow wrong inside, we are feeling that rift. This short book describes h...
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    6,33 €

  • Christianity, Colonialism and Indigenous History in French Polynesia
    Mai Misaki
    In an increasingly modernised French Polynesian society, some Christians have been tackling contemporary social issues and repatriate traditional indigenous values . Pursuing the past in the present means grappling with ongoing existential issues as an indigenous people, such as the dismantling of the kinship community, the decline of domestic agriculture and the loss of indige...
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    184,30 €

  • Luminous
    CARL SAFINA / Kike Calvo
    In Luminous: A Field Guide for Visual Explorers and Storytellers,award-winning photographer and visual storyteller Kike Calvo-Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club,and a National Geographic Certified Educator-invites readersinto the mindset of a photographic explorer: someone who movesslowly, listens deeply, and photographs with intention.Bridging phot...
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    40,72 €

  • The Behavioral Ecology of Food
    Elic M. Weitzel / Natalie D. Munro
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    27,41 €

  • The Behavioral Ecology of Food
    Elic M. Weitzel / Natalie D. Munro
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    84,41 €

  • An Anthropology of Deep Time
    Richard D. G. Irvine
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    121,85 €

  • BEYOND CONVICTION
    Eric Danso Ampofo
    Why do people believe so strongly - and think so little?Across politics, religion, culture, and social movements, humanity is driven by conviction. Yet history shows that some of the greatest harm has been done by people who were completely certain they were right. Beyond Conviction examines how beliefs are formed, how they become distorted, and why sincerity and passion are no...
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    28,75 €

  • BEYOND CONVICTION
    Eric Danso Ampofo
    Why do people believe so strongly - and think so little?Across politics, religion, culture, and social movements, humanity is driven by conviction. Yet history shows that some of the greatest harm has been done by people who were completely certain they were right. Beyond Conviction examines how beliefs are formed, how they become distorted, and why sincerity and passion are no...
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    22,27 €


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