A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism.
Blackjackal is a new three card game that takes quick analytic thinking from blackjack, table aggression and blluffing from hold 'em poker and transports the player to the hot savanna of a new and fierce gambling experience.
In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as "e;common sense"e; and "e;laws of nature.
En un mundo donde los riesgos y amenazas acechan constantemente a las empresas, este libro ofrece un enfoque innovador para la gestión de la seguridad.
A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism.
Studien und Untersuchungen zu Brandverlaufskurven der DGUV (Deutsche Gemeinde Unfallversicherung) zeigen, dass extremes Brandverhalten heute schneller auftritt als noch vor 30 Jahren.
Estéticas del malestar explora las potencias críticas del arte contemporáneo en un presente atravesado por crisis sociales, políticas, ecológicas y afectivas.
Este libro propone una mirada transformadora del derecho agrario colombiano, al plantear el buen vivir como un principio jurídico orientador de la Reforma Rural Integral contemplada en el Acuerdo Final de Paz.
While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence.
This book contains updated versions of a set of papers presented at the International Conference on Agriculture and Economic Development-A Symposium on Japan's Experience which was held in Tokyo, July, 1967.
The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
During the remarkably long period (1724-1754) that Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, served as England's secretary of state, private interests and the exigencies of domestic politics rather than a rational assessment of England's stake in America determined colonial policy.
Este libro revolucionario, profundo, provocador e inteligente, analiza el abuso sexual y el discurso global sobre la violación desde el punto de vista de la superviviente de una violación en grupo en Bombay cuando era adolescente.
Esta obra es fruto de trayectorias de investigacion y experiencias diferentes y compartidas en el marco del Centro de Etica Aplicada de la Universidad de Deusto, desarrolladas en la conviccion de servir de brujula para un viaje en el que se reconoce a la empresa no tanto como un proyecto material en torno al cual se desenvuelve la vida de la ciudadania, sino como un sujeto moral que influye en (y es influido por) la vida ciudadana.
The Center of Mass: How Cities Create Power Beyond Office is a structural study of political influence, urban identity, and non-positional power, using Mumbai and Balasaheb Thackeray as its central historical case.
Black Sea Atlantis: The Flood That Forged the Indo-EuropeansAround 5600 BCE, the tranquil freshwater lake that would become the Black Sea was violently transformed.
Us in a World Out of Order: China, America, and the Remaking of the World is a work of long-form nonfiction that is at once a cool-eyed reckoning with political economy and the solitary memoir of one man.
This remarkable book examines how the Islamist movement and its competition with secular-nationalist factions have transformed the identities of ordinary Palestinians since the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, of the late 1980s.
Sorbische Frauen wurden in nationalen/ethnischen Diskursen oft auf eine reprasentative Position - Symboltragerinnen des kulturellen Erbes und Huterinnen der ethnischen Identitat - festgelegt.
A defunción dos sexos: disidentes sexuais na Galiza contemporánea é un libro divulgativo que recompila historias e memorias de persoas que viviron alén da norma sexual na Galiza dos últimos cento cincuenta anos.
From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service.
This book contends that beneath the frenzied activism of the sixties and the seeming quiescence of the seventies, a "e;silent revolution"e; has been occurring that is gradually but fundamentally changing political life throughout the Western world.
Focusing on North Mull - north of Glen More, but excluding Craignure, Torosay and Brolas - this book is an anthology of the tales and traditions of Mull in the words of those who tell them.
In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and experimentation that characterized this period.
