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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 € -
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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Monetary Policy with Very Low Inflation in the Pacific Rim(2006)Explores the factors that have contributed to low inflation and deflation in Pacific Rim nations and forecasts some of the potential challenges faced by these nations, as well as some potential solutions. Rapid growth on the supply side of economics is onVezava: Trda162,13 €
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Growth Theories in Light of the East Asian Experience(1995)The contributors to this volume analyze the growth experiences of Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan in light of the developed endogenous growth theory, in order to provide an understanding of the economic boom in East Asia.Vezava: Trda157,27 €
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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 €
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Mobilizing Public Opinion(2002) LEE, TAEKUInvestigating the question of opinion changing attitudes during periods of political unrest, Lee argues that the protests of local, ordinary people pushed demands for social change. His arguments are substantiated with considerable evidence from multipleVezava: Trda131,33 €
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Strong on Music(1995) LAWRENCE, VERA BRODSKYThis work, the second volume of "Strong on Music", provides an account of the 19th-century New York music scene. Each chapter presents a year in the musical life of New York, accompanied by relevant excerpts from George Templeton Strong's diaries and a seVezava: Trda202,67 €
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Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam(2012) LASSNER, JACOBLooks at the debates occasioned by modern Western scholarship on Islam to throw new light on the social and political status of medieval Jews and Christians in various Islamic lands from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries. This title shows just whatVezava: Trda129,71 €
