The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city.
This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a 'nomadic' pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics.
Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.
Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them.
Von der Lust des Herrschens und BeherrschtwerdensApell an unsere innersten BegehrenElsbeth Wallnofer erzahlt von machtigen Gestalten und ihren Gesten: vom betenden Altkanzler Kurz in der Wiener Stadthalle, der rasenden Alice Weidel im deutschen Bundestag, der brullenden Meloni in Italien, einem Bier-auf-ex-trinkenden amtierenden Kanzler, vom bekanntesten Clown Gro britanniens, Boris Johnson, und vielen anderen Populist*innen und Demagog*innen aus den Reihen der Politik.
Eine gro angelegte neue Kulturtheorie -Die Pfropfung ist eine seit der Antike gangige Technik des Land- und Gartenbaus: Verschiedenartige Pflanzen werden miteinander verbunden, um Qualitat und Ertrag zu steigern.
"e;It is ironic that our ever-present preoccupation with closing the achievement gap is insufficiently articulated in current federal education policy.
A compelling study of myth, fear, and folklore, The Book of Witches examines the origins, ancient magic, and enduring power of the witch throughout history.
A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in MoroccoFor decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage.
Cross-border Mobility: Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocultural category 'Malay'.
Alejandro Schujman e formado em Psicologia e, neste livro, apresenta os diferentes conflitos que os adolescentes enfrentam hoje em dia e, consequentemente, seus pais.
Die Beiträge des sechsten Bandes geben einen Einblick in gestalterische Forschungs- und Reflexionsprozesse an der Technischen Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt, der Universität Leiden sowie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
Die Beiträge des sechsten Bandes geben einen Einblick in gestalterische Forschungs- und Reflexionsprozesse an der Technischen Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt, der Universität Leiden sowie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
Alejandro Schujman es licenciado en Psicologia y, en este libro, presenta los diferentes conflictos que enfrentan los adolescentes de hoy y, en consecuencia, sus padres.
Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Barbara Walker examines the Russian literary circle, a feature of Russian intellectual and cultural life from tsarist times into the early Soviet period, through the life story of one of its liveliest and most adored figures, the poet Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932).
In Erik Mueggler’s powerful and imaginative ethnography, an Indigenous community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the margins of a nation-state.
En conjunto, los autores de este libro destacan acertadamente que la "especificidad histórica del Estado" en América Latina estaría dada por la heterogeneidad estructural y el carácter subordinado y dependiente de su inserción en la economía mundial, mientras que las múltiples especificidades nacionales devendrían de los procesos de conformación particular de sus clases fundamentales, sus intereses antagónicos, sus conflictos, sus luchas y sus articulaciones, en tensión permanente con su forma de inserción en los ciclos históricos de acumulación a escala global.
This study explores the evolution of Lomonosov’s imposing stature in Russian thought from the middle of the eighteenth century to the closing years of the Soviet period.
Zehn queere Menschen aus Post-Ost, die nach Deutschland geflohen sind, erzählen ihre Lebensgeschichten: vom Kampf für die eigene queere Identität und für ein offenes Leben – vor der Flucht und heute.
