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Mathematics in Western Culture
This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion,
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Japanese in the Western Mind
This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and c
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New Culture of Energy
Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western tradi
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Culture and Imperialism (0099967502)
Kniha - autor Edward W. Said, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Reissue of Said's examining of western culture, which takes in everything from Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, Yeats and media coverage of the Gulf War. 'Has an eloquent, urgent topicality rare in books by literary critics' Camille Paglia
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Unfettered – Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture
A popular pastor and speaker shows that Western culture is in a tailspin and Christian faith is entangled in it: we do kingdom things in empire ways.
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Human Animal in Western Art and Science
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as cl...
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Western Civilization Bites Back
"Anyone who experienced Jonathan Bowden speak in public was in awe of his ability to thrill and inspire his audiences. His energy and personal magnetism were truly amazing and a huge asset to our cause. In reading these essays, most of which are transcriptions from his talks, one is also impressed by his very broad intellectual background and his far-ranging interests-art...
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Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture
Analyses historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanmi
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The Japanese in the Western Mind Taylor & Francis Ltd
This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations. Hinton considers how the West views the Japanese as an ideologically different ‘other’, and proposes a cultural theory of stereotypes from which to...
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The Japanese in the Western Mind Taylor & Francis Ltd
This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations. Hinton considers how the West views the Japanese as an ideologically different ‘other’, and proposes a cultural theory of stereotypes from which to...
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Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture
Higuchi provides insight into how this philosophy has developed in Japan, and the affinity it has developed with a non-Western culture. Dividing his i
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Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Explores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire
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Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Explores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté
Anotace: We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world?Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live.In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author ...
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, 1. vydání - Gabor Maté
<p>We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world?Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live.In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author G...
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The Myth of Normal : Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Maté Gabor
Anotace: Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is `normal` when it comes to health?Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate has seen how health systems neglect the rol...
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The Myth of Normal : Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, 1. vydání - Gabor Maté
<p>Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is 'normal' when it comes to health? Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate has seen how health systems neglect the ro...
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The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination Taylor & Francis Ltd
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology pers...
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Baden, Kostolac, Vučedol and Vinkovci - The Late Eneolithic, Transition Period, and Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin and the Western Balkans
The book treats three primary themes. The first covers the Baden, Kostolac/Bošáca and Vučedol cultures, demonstrating their genetic relationship and indigenous development. This development is marked by changes in distribution (the global horizontal stratigraphy) caused by the penetration of the Pit Grave Culture, our second theme. The third theme analyses the emergence o...
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Baden, Kostolac, Vučedol and Vinkovci - The Late Eneolithic, Transition Period, and Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin and the Western Balkans - Želimir Brnic
<p>The book treats three primary themes. The first covers the Baden, Kostolac/Bošáca and Vučedol cultures, demonstrating their genetic relationship and indigenous development. This development is marked by changes in distribution (the global horizontal stratigraphy) caused by the penetration of the Pit Grave Culture, our second theme. The third theme analyses the em...
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Sex and the Unreal City : The Demolition of the Western Mind - Esolen Anthony
Anotace: Unreal City: a zany cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be.And it`s no fantasy. It`s where we live. We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in un-being.With saber-like wit, poet and professor Anthony Esolen leads readers on a tour through the ruins of their own Western wo...
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Medicine in Art
Offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egyptian wall carvings to 20th century artists.
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Niqab in France
An intimate look at a fiercely controversial topic in contemporary Western culture and politics: a garment—the niqab, or full-face veil—and the wome
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Greeks in Asia
Recounting the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through to the rise
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Cultures in Flux
The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian sch
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Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500
The Italian Renaissance is a pivotal episode in the history of Western culture. This book discusses a range of works from across Italy, examines the i
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Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata, India
This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture – the Bengali group theatre. The book
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Analysis of David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
Slavery had been accepted in Western culture for centuries. So why did a movement suddenly rise up in the industrial era calling for its abolition? Co
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (000842294X)
Kniha - autor Alex Ross, 784 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics?an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty...
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The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song—a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano—as a vehicle for creating a localized musical identity, while embracing cosmopolitan visions. The study of art song revea...
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The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason - Murray Douglas
Anotace: SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER `The most important book of the year` Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world`s foremost political writers `The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise th...
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Rise and Fall : A History of the World in Ten Empires - Paul Strathern
<p>Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning t...
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin
<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...
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Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games - Sautoy Marcus du
<p>An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.</p> <p>Where should you move first in Connect 4?</p> <p>What is the best property in Monopoly?</p> <p>And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?</p> <p>Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries a...
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Arithmetical, Geometrical and Combinatorial Puzzles from Japan
The vibrant recreational mathematics culture of Japan presents puzzles that are often different from the classics of western literature. This book is
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Tragedy
A new account of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture
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Unflattening
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked in meaning-making? In this experiment
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Secret Life of Puppets
In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced in high
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Schubert's Winter Journey
Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In this book,
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Experience of Poetry
An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.
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Russian Dilemma
Examines how the centuries-old Western threat has shaped Russia's political and strategic structures, creating an culture of security rooted in vigila
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Discographies
Experiencing Disco, HipHop, House, Techno, Drum 'n' Bass and Garage Discographies traces the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture
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Choral Repertoire
The second edition of Choral Repertoire is a comprehensive reference book about choral music in Western culture from Gregorian chant to compositions o
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China on the Mind
Thousands of years ago Indo-European culture diverged into Western and Eastern ways of thinking. Bollas examines how they are converging again in psyc
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Michelangelo
* This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture. * Antonio Forcellino is one o
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Goddesses and the Divine Feminine
Presents th portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture - from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Th
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Perfect Vagina
The Perfect Vagina highlights the complexities involved with Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery, its role in Western beauty culture, and the creation an
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My Brother's Husband: Volume II
The second and concluding volume in Gengoroh Tagame's beautifully written graphic novel about family, the clash between Japanese and Western culture a
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Ecology of Others Question of Nature
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this work, the author see
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Bach
J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in western culture. In this book, Peter Williams, author of the acclaimed J. S. Bach:
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Searching for the Messiah
An award-winning historian of religion examines the role a â€messiah†plays in Western culture, from its pre-Christian roots to modern interpreta
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Earshot Taylor & Francis Ltd
Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture with the primary focus being the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world. This book is not a work of cultural theory but is anch...
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Earshot Taylor & Francis Ltd
Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture with the primary focus being the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world. This book is not a work of cultural theory but is anch...
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Italy - Pre Intermediate Reader with CD
This Reader provides an informative overview of Italian history, art, culture, geography and climate, food, fashion, sport and more. Italy is a country in Europe. Italy has a rich history of empires and great thinkers, and has been a centre for Western culture for thousands of years. Also comes with audio CD.
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Muslims, Minorities, and the Media Taylor & Francis Ltd
Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change? It is an outstanding resource for students and scholars of media, religion, culture, sociology, and Islamic studies, and is also of benefit f...
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The Therapized Antisemite Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Therapized Antisemite seeks to determine the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. For over a hundred years, psychology’s vision - understanding the mind and conquering feelings with thoughts – has remained a myth in much of Western societies. Despite its theories and concepts being widely criticized and often proven wrong, it rema...
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Harem - Valentine Gallet
In the wake of Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign, artists of the nineteenth century became fascinated by the Orient and, most particularly, the harems which were so remote from western culture. These places rapidly provided a pretext for drawing the languid bodies of naked women, whose depiction in any other context would have been intolerable. This assembly of numerous works...
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Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia Taylor & Francis Ltd
Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of new states forced a rethinking of many aspects of the history and culture of the early East Slavs as the subject became increasingly disentangled from the umbrella of Byzantine studies and fruitful collaboration was fostered between scholars ...
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Yoga: Relaxation, Postures, Daily Routines - Yabsleyová Charmaine
Anotace: Yoga is a popular physical, mental, and spiritual discipline that originated in ancient India. Various traditions of yoga can be found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and in recent years Western culture has embraced yoga`s power of simplicity, stillness and mental poise. This accessible new book focuses on a series of exercises, body motions and self...
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Yoga: Relaxation, Postures, Daily Routines - Charmaine Yabsleyová
<p>Yoga is a popular physical, mental, and spiritual discipline that originated in ancient India. Various traditions of yoga can be found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and in recent years Western culture has embraced yoga's power of simplicity, stillness and mental poise. This accessible new book focuses on a series of exercises, body motions and self-...
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