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Knowledge and Beauty in Classical Islam. An Aesthetic Reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun, Hardback/Giovanna Lelli
Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii de carti online, de dragoste si beletristica,…Catre Magazin -
Sino-Iranica: China and Ancient Iran: Commodities and Cultural Exchange from 1000bc to Medieval Times, Hardcover/Berthold Laufer
Description In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in…Catre Magazin -
Civil-Military Entanglements: Anthropological Perspectives, Hardcover/Sorensen Birgitte Refslund
Description Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and…Catre Magazin -
Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture: Global Perspectives, Hardcover/Tim Trausch
Description Signs and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what is considered one medium, one region,…Catre Magazin -
Aircraft Leasing and Financing: Tools for Success in International Aircraft Acquisition and Management, Paperback/Vitaly S. Guzhva
Description Aircraft Financing and Leasing: Tools for Success in Aircraft Acquisition and Management provides researchers, industry professionals and students with a thorough overview of the skills necessary for navigating this…Catre Magazin -
Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return, Hardcover/Antonio Sanna
Description This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return , the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators,…Catre Magazin -
Traffic Engineering and Management, 7th Edition, Hardcover/Alexa Delbosc
A practical guide to the complex world of traffic engineering and management Traffic Engineering and Management gives a comprehensive overview of traffic engineering and management practice. It provides guidance in…Catre Magazin -
Handbook of Theories of Aging, Paperback (3rd Ed.)/Vern L. Bengtson
Contributor(s): Editor: Vern L. Bengtson Editor: Richard Settersten This state-of-the-art handbook will keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging. With virtually all…Catre Magazin -
Philosophy and the City, Hardcover/Keith Jacobs
Description Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important…Catre Magazin -
Human Rights of American Minorities, Paperback/M. Nicole Warehime
Description Human Rights of American Minorities provides students with a holistic view of universal human rights as they apply to American social problems and the lives of minority populations in…Catre Magazin -
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, Hardcover/Dayna Bowen Matthew
Contributor(s): Author: Dayna Bowen Matthew Just Medicine offers us a new, effective, and innovative plan to regulate implicit biases and eliminate the inequalities they cause, and to save the lives…Catre Magazin -
Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Hardcover/John Borrows
Description Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own…Catre Magazin -
Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. A Global Perspective, Hardback/***
This important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly…Catre Magazin -
The Century of Women, Hardcover/Maria Bucur
Description This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.…Catre Magazin -
Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes of National Belonging, Hardcover/Jasmin Habib
Description Over the course of four years, Jasmin Habib was a participant observer on tours of Israel organized for diaspora Jews as well as at North American community events focusing…Catre Magazin -
Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan, Hardcover/Marella Agnelli
The exclusive world of one of the twentieth century's most glamorous and alluring women, as seen through her private homes and gardens. Nicknamed "The Swan" by Richard Avedon when he…Catre Magazin -
Immigration Reform: A Reference Handbook, Hardcover/Michael C. Lemay
Description Comprising seven chapters, Immigration Reform: A Reference Handbook surveys the complex topic for high school, undergraduate, and general readers. Chapter 1 gives the historical background to current immigration reform…Catre Magazin -
Charting the Next Pandemic: Modeling Infectious Disease Spreading in the Data Science Age, Paperback/Ana Pastore y. Piontti
Description This book provides an introduction to the computational and complex systems modeling of the global spreading of infectious diseases. The latest developments in the area of contagion processes modeling…Catre Magazin -
Emanuel Law Outlines for Civil Procedure, Paperback/Steven L. Emanuel
Any law school graduate will tell you that when picking your outline tool you need to pick the best because your outlines are the most important study tool you will…Catre Magazin -
The Complete Earth Chronicles, Hardcover/Zecharia Sitchin
Hardcover collector's editions of all 7 volumes of the Earth Chronicles Series in a display slipcase - Includes The 12th Planet , The Stairway to Heaven , The Wars of…Catre Magazin -
Research as Resistance, 2nd Edition, Paperback/Leslie Brown
Contributor(s): Editor: Leslie Brown Editor: Susan Strega This second edition of Research as Resistance builds upon the resistance-based methods featured in the first edition and contributes to the recent resurgence…Catre Magazin -
Language Vitality Through Bible Translation, Hardback/***
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local…Catre Magazin -
April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo, Hardcover/Irena Makaryk
Description Attracting over fifteen million visitors, the 1925 Paris Expo had an ambitious goal to create a new modernist style which would reflect the great scientific, industrial, and technological advances…Catre Magazin -
Remember the Future: The Distortions Unlimited Story, Paperback/Lee Lambert
Description This is the story of Distortions Unlimited, the company that started with one man making Halloween masks in his one bedroom apartment and became a leader in the haunted…Catre Magazin -
Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet, Hardcover/Rosalyn R. Lapier
Contributor(s): Author: Rosalyn R. Lapier Rosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality"…Catre Magazin -
Mock Trials, Paperback/Steven Lubet
Description A mock trial may officially begin with opening statements, but experienced competitors know that the dialogue between counsel and the court beforehand can make or break their chances of…Catre Magazin -
Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-Migration Across China’s Borders, Hardcover/Elaine Lynn Ho
Description More than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. This book unravels the multiple,…Catre Magazin -
Strategic and Tactical Considerations on the Fireground Study Guide – Fourth Edition, Paperback/Ret Deputy Chief James P. Smith
Strategic and Tactical Considerations on the Fireground, Study Guide, Fourth Edition, contains 900 multiple choice questions and answers, and is meant as an accompaniment to the textbook Strategic and Tactical…Catre Magazin -
Michael Jordan: A Biography, Hardcover/David L. Porter
Description With the possible exceptions of boxer Muhammad Ali and baseball player Babe Ruth, no athlete has made a greater impact on American society-or in the world-than Michael Jordan. Follow…Catre Magazin -
Trusting the News in a Digital Age. Toward a “New” News Literacy, Paperback/Jeffrey Dvorkin
Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii de carti online, de dragoste si beletristica,…Catre Magazin -
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How to Do It, Paperback (2nd Ed.)/Shelly Tochluk
Contributor(s): Author: Shelly Tochluk Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect…Catre Magazin -
Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications, Paperback/Louis Dumont
Description Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and…Catre Magazin -
The Illustrated Secret History of the World, Hardcover/Mark Booth
Since its first publication in 2008, The Secret History of the World has sold over 250,000 copies and established itself as the authoritative text on the subject of esoteric belief…Catre Magazin -
Governmentality, Paperback/Mitchell Dean
Originally published in 1999 this exceptionally clear and lucid book quickly became the standard overview of what are now called ‘governmentality studies’. In this timely Second Edition, Mitchell Dean engages…Catre Magazin -
Trauma Recovery and Empowerment: A Clinician’s Guide for Working with Women in Groups, Paperback/Maxine Harris
Contributor(s): Author: Maxine Harris A one-of-a-kind guide that serves as an essential resource for mental health professionals working with women whose lives have been shattered by the trauma of sexual,…Catre Magazin -
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader, Paperback/Penny A. Weiss
Contributor(s): Editor: Penny A. Weiss A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world. Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings…Catre Magazin -
Chloroform, Paperback/J. De Fouw
Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to chloroform, a volatile liquid used in pesticide formulations and as a solvent and chemical intermediate. Its use…Catre Magazin -
Deconstructing Service in Libraries: Intersections of Identities and Expectations, Paperback/Veronica Arellano Douglas
Research into the construction of librarians' professional identities indicates a strong emphasis on our work as service providers, from both within the profession and the larger communities in which we…Catre Magazin -
Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability, Paperback/Christine Bigby
A concise introduction to the knowledge, values and skills required for effective practice in the field of intellectual disability, this book covers the key topics including changing definitions, core tasks…Catre Magazin -
What Makes Training Really Work: 12 Levers of Transfer Effectiveness, Paperback/Ina Weinbauer-Heidel
Description Most seminars are useless - it's an open secret in HR circles. Less than 20 percent of what trainees supposedly learn is actually put into practice. Small wonder that…Catre Magazin -
#rhodesmustfall. Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa, Paperback/Francis B. Nyamnjoh
This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its…Catre Magazin -
Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood, Paperback/Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
Description The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic…Catre Magazin -
The Urban Experience, Paperback/David Harvey
This book is prepared in a way which recognises the needs of police officers, those who wish to study the criminal law, and members of the public who wish to…Catre Magazin -
This Ain’t Chicago, Paperback/Zandria F. Robinson
Contributor(s): Author: Zandria F. Robinson When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know…Catre Magazin -
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Paperback/Bruno LaTour
Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent…Catre Magazin -
Thrive: Self-Coaching for Happiness & Success, Paperback/Dr Laura Delizonna
The secret to success and happiness is building the daily habits that create upward spirals of positivity and possibility. Research shows that thriving individuals are more energized, happier, and successful.…Catre Magazin -
The End of Dissatisfaction?: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment/Todd McGowan
Description Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Z iz ek, Joan Copjec, and…Catre Magazin -
Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship, Paperback/Amalia Pallares
Contributor(s): Author: Amalia Pallares During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their…Catre Magazin -
Scarlet and the Beast I: A history of the war between English and French Freemasonry, Paperback/John Daniel
Description My research has revealed that there are two separate and opposing powers in Freemasonry. One, headquartered in London, subscribes to and promotes an idolatrous and pantheistic view of the…Catre Magazin -
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In six Volumes. By James Bruce of Kinnaird, Esq. F.R./James Bruce
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…Catre Magazin -
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Paperback/Cherrie Moraga
Contributor(s): Editor: Cherrie Moraga Editor: Gloria Anzaldua Bronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies Category Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony…Catre Magazin -
The New Disability History: American Perspectives, Paperback/Paul K. Longmore
Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. Longmore Editor: Lauri Umansky Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over…Catre Magazin -
Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France, Paperback/Miriam I. Ticktin
This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based…Catre Magazin -
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, Paperback/Lani Guinier
Description Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues…Catre Magazin -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox, Hardcover/Jean-Michel Basquiat
Description Copy, paste: Basquiat's collaged Xerox paintings presage today's sampling aesthetics Jean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox provides the first concentrated examination of the extraordinary body of work that the artist created using…Catre Magazin -
Blackcreole: Too White to Be Black Too Black to Be White, Recollections of a Mixed-Race New Orleans Colored Creole, in Limbo, Paperback/Dr Maurice Martinez
Description Seen through the eyes of a native son: Maurice M. Martinez, Ph.D, in this firsthand account of survival on a deep-South landscape speaks to the elan vital of a…Catre Magazin -
Unauthorized: Portraits of Latino Immigrants, Hardcover/Clark-Ibanez Marisol
Description Unauthorized: Portraits of Latino Immigrants takes readers inside the diverse contemporary worlds of undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States, exploring the myths and realities of education, health care,…Catre Magazin -
Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, Paperback/David E. Wilkins
In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations have been able to establish policies concerning health care, education, religious…Catre Magazin -
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry/Albert Borgmann
Description Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on…Catre Magazin -
Hebrews to Negroes 2: Volume 2 Wake Up Black America, Paperback/Ronald Dalton Jr
Contributor(s): Author: Ronald Dalton Jr "From beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia My worshippers, My dispersed ones, Will bring My offerings." - Zephaniah 3:10 Modern Jewry has been looking for the…Catre Magazin -
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, Paperback/Jean Baudrillard
Contributor(s): Author: Jean Baudrillard Translator: Paul Patton Comprised of three essays written by Baudrillard in the lead-up to, during, and after the military clash in the Gulf in 1992, this…Catre Magazin -
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson, Paperback/Blair L. M. Kelley
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars…Catre Magazin -
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History, Paperback/Peter Turchin
Contributor(s): Author: Peter Turchin WE ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think so. The real wage of a US worker today is less than it…Catre Magazin -
The Faces of Justice and State Authority: A Comparative Approach to the Legal Process, Paperback/Mirjan R. Damaska
A leading legal scholar provides a highly original comparative analysis of how justice is administered in legal systems around the world and of the profound and often puzzling changes taking…Catre Magazin -
Misinformation and Mass Audiences, Paperback/Brian G. Southwell
Contributor(s): Editor: Brian G. Southwell Editor: Emily A. Thorson Editor: Laura Sheble Lies and inaccurate information are as old as humanity, but never before have they been so easy to…Catre Magazin -
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop, Paperback/Kyra D. Gaunt
Contributor(s): Author: Kyra D. Gaunt 2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist When we think of African American popular music, our…Catre Magazin -
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled, Paperback/Deborah Wallace
Description A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way…Catre Magazin -
A Brief History of Citizenship/Derek Heater
From Plato to Rorty, A Brief History of Citizenship provides a concise survey of the idea of citizenship. All major periods are covered, beginning with Greece and Rome, continuing on…Catre Magazin -
Freedom: Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, Paperback/Orlando Patterson
National Book Awards This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces…Catre Magazin -
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture, Paperback/Domino Renee Perez
Description Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in popular forms, such as…Catre Magazin -
Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research, Paperback/James W. Messerschmidt
Contributor(s): Editor: James W. Messerschmidt Editor: Michael A. Messner Editor: Raewyn Connell Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today Since scholars began…Catre Magazin -
A Little Me, Hardcover/Amy Roloff
Description "God doesn't make mistakes." For Amy Roloff, star of TLC's hit reality show Little People, Big World, her father's words would repeatedly serve as an anchor, reminding her of…Catre Magazin -
My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, Paperback/Elizabeth Chin
Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers…Catre Magazin -
Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation, Paperback/Greg Prieto
Contributor(s): Author: Greg Prieto A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with…Catre Magazin -
Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam, Paperback/Sylvia Chan-Malik
Contributor(s): Author: Sylvia Chan-Malik An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed…Catre Magazin -
Marvel’s Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular: The Definitive Comic Art Collection, Hardcover/Matt Singer
Description Explore over fifty years of Spider-Man with this deluxe art book, featuring exclusive interviews and content from the incredibly talented people who brought this amazing hero to life. Since…Catre Magazin -
The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, Paperback/Ed Hulse
Description The top-selling, best-reviewed title in Murania Press history is now available in a newly revised and expanded edition With nearly 2000 copies in print, sold in 23 countries, THE…Catre Magazin -
Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration/Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Description Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the…Catre Magazin -
Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “race” in New England, 1780-1860, Paperback/Joanne Pope Melish
Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources--from slaveowners' diaries to…Catre Magazin -
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America/John Lewis
Description Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In Across That Bridge , Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil…Catre Magazin