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  • Sierra and Desert Rails
    Fred Matthews
    A survey in black and white photos and text of the railroads of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and the old minng lines in the desert just beyond the mountains, in the last steam era, from 1947 to 1959.  The two main-line routes, Donner Pass and the Feather River Route, were enjoying an Indian Summer of activity after World War II, with the postwar construction boom bringi...
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    23,25 €

  • Campeonas
    Bruno Rivas Frías / María José Castro Bernardini
    Solo en el transcurso de este siglo, el Perú ha visto a 16 mujeres en lo más alto del podio del deporte nacional. De a pocos, la presencia de las mujeres se ha vuelto constante en diversas competencias, incluso en aquellas que en el pasado eran consideradas solo para hombres.Campeonas. Peruanas que están cambiando las reglas del juego cuenta las historias de 12 mujeres que han ...
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    16,64 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
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    29,42 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
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    40,98 €

  • Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse
    James Edward Frost
    Hoodening is an ancient calendar custom unique to East Kent, involving a wooden horse’s head on a pole, carried by a man concealed by a sack. The earliest reliable record is from 1735, but little serious research had gone into the tradition between Percy Maylam’s seminal work 'The Hooden Horse', published in 1909, and George Frampton’s 2018 update, 'Discordant Comicals'. The cu...
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    30,50 €

  • Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture
    Dewar MacLeod
    The cultural history of one of rock’s greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator. ...
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    17,97 €

  • Bronx Epitaph
    Steven K. Wagner
    The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig’s famous 'Luckiest Man' speech. ...
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    24,81 €

  • Enquadramento Científico das Hipóteses de Povoamento dos Açores antes do Século XV
    Tomás Dentinho
    Tendo já sido levantadas hipóteses de ocupação humana nos Açores antes do século XV (e, portanto, antes da chegada dos Portugueses ao arquipélago), os principais objetivos do workshop realizado em Angra do Heroísmo do qual resulta este livro foram os seguintes: 1) Enquadrar cientificamente a formulação de hipóteses sobre a ocupação humana nos Açores; 2) Informar atividades educ...
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    10,40 €

  • Tratado de excitantes modernos
    Honoré de Balzac
    Cuando un hombre de genio lleva una vida intelectual y amorosa a la vez, muere como murieron Rafael y Lord Byron. Si es casto, muere por exceso de trabajo; si no lo es, lo mata el desenfreno en los placeres sensuales; no obstante, esa clase de muerte es muy poco frecuente. El exceso de tabaco, el exceso de café, el exceso de opio y de aguardiente producen graves desórdenes y co...
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    11,96 €

  • Ensayo sobre el gusto
    Montesquieu
    El alma ama la variedad; pero, ya lo hemos dicho, tan sólo la ama porque está hecha para conocer y para ver: por tanto es preciso que pueda ver, y que la variedad se lo permita; vale decir: es preciso que una cosa sea lo bastante simple para ser percibida y lo bastante variada para ser percibida con placer.En este pequeño tratado sobre el gusto escrito en 1717 y destinado a un ...
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    13,52 €

  • Letra bastarda
    Felipe Ponce
    Esta obra es una compilación de artículos de opinión publicados en la sección de arte de El Diario NTR entre 2015 y 2019 con el nombre de Letra bastarda. En ellos, el corrector y editor Felipe Ponce comparte sus experiencias personales y profesionales, desde sus primeros encuentros con la literatura, los hallazgos y las desventuras en su formación y el establecimiento de Arlequ...
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    16,53 €

  • A Study of Baba Yaga
    Ronesa Aveela
    You thought the Wicked Witch of the West was evil, but have you met the Wicked Witch of Eastern Europe? If you’re familiar at all with Baba Yaga, you’ll likely say she is a cannibalistic witch. This infamous Slavic fairy-tale character is also perhaps one of the most complex you’ll find. While most others are strictly good or bad, Baba Yaga can be both simultaneously.Tales abou...
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    44,30 €

  • A Study of Baba Yaga
    Ronesa Aveela
    You thought the Wicked Witch of the West was evil, but have you met the Wicked Witch of Eastern Europe? If you’re familiar at all with Baba Yaga, you’ll likely say she is a cannibalistic witch. This infamous Slavic fairy-tale character is also perhaps one of the most complex you’ll find. While most others are strictly good or bad, Baba Yaga can be both simultaneously.Tales abou...
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    51,68 €

  • A Question of RESPECT
    Celinda Lake / Ed Goeas
    A Question of Respect speaks to voters who are tired of a political environment that ends in immovable stalemate, grounded by a political party’s voter base without addressing solutions or attempting to understand the opposing side. ...
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    16,57 €

  • Gender and Action Films
    Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
    Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
    Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies. ...
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    142,77 €

  • História E Estórias Do Povoamento E Gentes De Vila Sant’ana E Itaquera
    Marco A. Stanojev Pereira
    Passados dez anos da publicação da primeira edição da obra História e Estórias do Povoamento e Gentes de Vila SantAna e Itaquera, a segunda edição vem revista e atualizada com informações que trazem novos fatos sobre a história do povoamento de um dos bairros mais icônicos da cidade de São Paulo.A obra discorre sobre a história do povoamento do Distrito de Itaquera, divididos e...
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    33,17 €

  • Dancing in the Forest
    Helen Hong
    Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the ''othered'' life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate t...
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    47,11 €

  • Dancing in the Forest
    Helen Hong
    Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the ''othered'' life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate t...
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    32,83 €

  • The Local Turn in Tourism
    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits. ...
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    72,22 €

  • The Local Turn in Tourism
    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits. ...
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    193,82 €

  • Relocating the Sacred
    Niyi Afolabi
    Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms. ...
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    121,33 €

  • Bob Dylan’s New York
    Dick Weissman
    A walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock. ...
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    18,38 €

  • Silent but Deadly
    Kirsten Bell
    An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life’s little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really humankind’s best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers? Can you still spot the difference between a Brit and an American by their teeth? In Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cu...
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    22,34 €

  • Histoire Du Costume Au Théâtre Depuis Les Origines Du Théâtre En France Jusqu’à Nos Jours
    Adolphe Jullien
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    41,58 €

  • Perfumery
    Campbell Morfit
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    39,42 €

  • Histoire Du Costume Au Théâtre Depuis Les Origines Du Théâtre En France Jusqu’à Nos Jours
    Adolphe Jullien
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    27,94 €

  • Perfumery
    Campbell Morfit
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    26,94 €

  • The Migrations of Early Culture; a Study of the Significance of the Geographical Distribution
    Smith
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    33,66 €


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