In Drachm, Dirham, Thaler, Pound the MoneyMuseum combines coins and historical maps with texts to help you to traverse the history of mankind since the beginning of money.
In diesem Buch werden Münzen und historische Karten erläutert, anhand derer Leserinnen und Leser die Geschichte der Menschheit seit den Anfängen des Geldes durchlaufen können.
"Este nuevo libro de Silvia Ons se vuelve imprescindible, […] podemos seguir unos hilos que se tejen con la agilidad propia de una autora que sabe mover sus agujas hasta lograr un entramado complejo, sutil y simple a la vez.
This is the story of a spiritual journey, a theological quest to find better biblical answers (ones that work in real life) to the challenging questions that plague many of us surrounding gender and sexual identity.
With over 200 entries ranging from Ancient Egypt to contemporary developments in law, media, and politics, the Transgender Encyclopedia shows how gender diversity spans the world and has done so for millennia.
From the manger of Jesus Christ to the 21st century, this encyclopedia explores more than 2,000 years of Christmas past and present through 966 entries packed with a wide variety of historical and pop-culture subjects.
Borges babilónico propone un recorrido, desde la A hasta la Z —de "1910, el año del cometa y del Centenario", pasando por los versos "A fair field full of folk", los nombres "Dabove, Santiago" o "Keaton, Buster", los términos "memoria" y "censura", los lugares "Jardín Botánico" o "Buenos Aires", hasta "Zunz, Emma"—, por más de mil entradas que permiten descifrar temas, referencias o citas que aparecen en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges.
An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.
'Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.
Digital Stimulation explores the subject of intimacy, including romantic and sexual intimacy, between human and nonhuman entities, particularly technological entities.
Apres la Tate Modern de Londres et la Nationalgalerie de Berlin, c'est au tour du Centre Georges-Pompidou a Paris (du 6 juin au 24 septembre 2012) de feter les quatre-vingts ans de Gerhard Richter.
In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations.
This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India.
Provides the most up-to-date information on transgender science and its applications, for gender-diverse people, their supporters, and the professionals who assist them to lead healthy, happy, and successful lives.
A delicate exploration of the discrimination that gender-diverse people face, this book analyzes the relationship between gender identity and performance in the workplace while considering the emotional and economic survival of those who identify as transgender.
Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist.