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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in Afric…. "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating...

Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences. Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate th...

Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People. "Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But T...

Critical Terms for Media Studies. Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of field...

Critical Terms for Religious Studies. A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religiou...

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy. "Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is ...

Economic Development: The History of an Idea. Economic development has been for many years the dominant national policy objective of the countries ...

Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland. "A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist politica...

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Reprint of the book originally published by U. of Chicago Press in 1964 and endorsed by BCL3 . Annotatio...

History of Political Philosophy. This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of po...

Honor. This text analyzes the elusive notion of "honour". Drawing on information about Western ideas of honour from sources as diverse as medieval ...

How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this braci...

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. "[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looki...

Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History. Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequ...

Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience. The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become...

Metaphor and Musical Thought. Delving into the process of experiencing music, this work creates an insightful history of our relationship to music....

Models of management : work, authority, and organization in a comparative per…. In this book, Mauro F. Guillen explores differing historical patter...

My Cocaine Museum. In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a disturbing vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian ...

Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity. Investigating the intricacy of the organization, this work argues that it is necessar...

News That Matters: Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition. Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first docume...

Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History. In his first essay, "Languages and Their Implications," J. G. A. Pocock anno...

Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge. Establishing the fundamental importance of geography in both the generation and ...

Sociologists, Economists, and Democracy. "Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new or, more accura...

Sprawl: A Compact History. In this incisive history of the expanded city, Robert Bruegmann argues that urban sprawl is a positive and logical conse...

Street corner society: the social structure of an Italian slum. First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston. ...

The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea So…. Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 197...

The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: …. In this five-volume opus--now available in its entirety in paperbac...

The City and Man. "The City and Man" consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's "Politics, " Plato's "Republic," ...

The Craft of Research, Third Edition. With more than 200,000 copies in print, "The Craft of Research" is the unrivaled resource for researchers at ...

The Dialectics of Shopping. This text explores the many contradictions faced by shoppers on a typical London street, and in the process offers a so...

The Mind of the Middle Ages, A.D. 200-1500: An Historical Survey. "This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of ...

The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000. Shows the interrelatedness of technical, military, political, and econo...

The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in Intern…. The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a ...

The Religious Question in Modern China. Recent events - from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expan...

The Scientific Revolution. This work contains Steven Shapin's historical exploration into the origins of the modern scientific worldview. What hist...

The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion. Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure ...