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Continuum International Publishing
sábado, 26 de octubre de 2024
The Science of ChristmasA lighted-hearted scientific investigation into all the rituals and icons of Christmas. What are the thermodynamics involved in cooking a turkey? What are the likely celestial cand...9999903208136Roger Highfield
Editors Varis
sábado, 26 de octubre de 2024
The Meaning of Style'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is con...9999903205715Dick Hebdige
Routledge
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Exploring the Border Between Life and DeathIn 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between life and death, which they called the Grey Zone. The peopl...9999903205692Adrian Owen
Guardian Books
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became a multimillion-dollar ind...9999903205494Rebecca Skloot,
Pan Books
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
People like to keep certain distances between themselves and other people or thigns. And this invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person's "territory" is one of the key...9999903205197Hall, Edward T.
Anchor
jueves, 24 de octubre de 2024
`A compact volume that performs marvels in the difficult art of summarizing (without betrayal) the complex theories that for the past 75 years have been labelled `structuralist'.'-...9999903202912Terence Hawkes
Routledge
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
Social Semiotics is a major new textbook in communication and cultural studies. It offers a comprehensive and original approach to the study of the ways in which meaning is constit...9999903202868Robert Hodge Robert Ian V...
Polity
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
A Book about MenIn this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing...9780679731191Robert Bly
Vintage
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
The Psychology of NazismA discussion of the psychological and philosophical implications of events in Germany during and immediately following the Nazi period. The essays--"The Fight with the Shadow," "Wo...9999903201878Carl Gustav Jung
Princeton University Press
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
This Second Edition deepens our understanding of how the tourist gaze orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the "other" and identifying th...9999903201694John Urry
London ; Sage, 1999.
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
Psychology and AlchemyJung's landmark account of the connections between alchemy, its symbolism, the collective unconscious, and modern psychology Psychology and Alchemy is one of Jung's most influentia...9999903200857C. G. Jung
Princeton University Press
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the result...9999903200314Darrell Huff
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
Europe's Myths of OrientRana Kabbani unravels Western fantasies and myths about the East which were woven over the ages. Devised during the Crusades to combat Islam, then confirmed by centuries of Western...9999903200215Rana Kabbani
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
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