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Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains(1994) CARO, TIMThis text provides a comprehensive account of carnivore social behaviour. Synthesizing more than a decade of research in the wild, it offers a detailed account of the behaviour and ecology of cheetahs.Vezava: Trda191,32 € -
Emptiness(2015) CORRIGAN, JOHN (FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA)Examines different kinds of emptiness essential to American Christianity, such as the emptiness of deep longing, the emptying of the body through fasting or weeping, the emptiness of the wilderness, and the emptiness of historical time itself. This book eVezava: Trda58,93 €
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Authors of the Storm(2007) FINE, GARY ALANOffers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Through field observation and interviews, this work shows that weather forecasts are often shaped as much by social and cultural factors inside local offices as they are by aVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Dante's Interpretive Journey(1996) FRANKE, WILLIAMCritically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante's "Divine Comedy", and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical theory to provide a reading of the poem, focusing on DanteVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Healing Powers(1992) FROHOCK, FRED M.Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems", Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by "scientific medicine" anVezava: Trda84,00 €
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Unsettled(2005) FUMERTON, PATRICIAPoor migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This book is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. It offers a portrait of unsettledness in early modern EnVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Color Harmonies(1993) GARAU, AUGUSTOIn Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic relations among colors. The author pays particular attention to the way colors behave whenVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Afterworld(1993) GARREN, CHRISTINEA collection of poems that examine the strengths and frailties of the human psyche as it functions under the stress of loss, disappointment and mortality.Vezava: Trda129,71 €
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Governing Sound(2007) GUILBAULT, JOCELYNECalypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged as the emblematic music? This book examines conditions that have enabled calypso to be valorized, contested, andVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Russian Refuge(1993) HARDWICK, SUSAN WILEYAn account of the Russian immigrant experience in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia over the last 200 years. The book focuses on six Christian groups to study the role of religion in their decisions to emigrate and in their adjuVezava: Trda129,71 €
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On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination(1994) HUGHES, EVERETT C.Hughes was the first sociologist to pay sustained attention to occupations as a field for study. The writings in this volume highlight his contributions to: the sociology of work and professions; race and ethnicity; and the central themes and methods of tVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Squaring the Circle(2000) JESSEPH, DOUGLAS M.This text presents an account of the argument between Thomas Hobbes and John Wallis, from the core mathematics to the broader issues. Their "battle of the books" illuminates the relationship between science and 17th-century debates over the limits of soveVezava: Trda188,07 €
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Governing Educational Desire(2011) KIPNIS, ANDREW B.That parents in China greatly value higher education for their children is a well-known aspect of contemporary Chinese culture, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined. This title explores this univeVezava: Trda162,13 €
