The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
History from Things
Smithsonian 2013; US$ 19.95History from Things explores the many ways objects?defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery?can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to ?read? artifacts, how to ?listen to? landscapes and locations, and how to apply... more...
Reason and Morality
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95This clear, critical examination makes Hegels arguments fully accessible. Hegel 's system is considered as a whole and examines the wide range of problems that it was designed to solve. more...
Deadly Developments
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens... more...
Wayward Shamans
University of California Press 2013; US$ 34.95Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity?s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent?s... more...
The Art of War - Two Perspectives
Start Publishing LLC 2013; US$ 1.99The only political work published during Machiavelli's lifetime, The Art of War delivers political, historic, and scholarly advice through seven chapters in the form of a Socratic dialogue. In his own words, the book's purpose is "To honor and reward virtue, not to have contempt for poverty, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without... more...
Stuff
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff. The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality... more...
Ethnicity
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested... more...
Flucht-Räume
Campus Verlag 2013; US$ 38.03Hauptbeschreibung Der Verlust der Heimat infolge von Krieg, Gewalt und politischer Unterdrückung gehört zu den einschneidendsten menschlichen Erfahrungen. Doch nicht selten ist der Aufenthalt auch im Zielland von Unsicherheit geprägt. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht Antje Krueger am Beispiel der Schweiz, wie traumatisierte und psychisch belastete... more...
Kulturvergleichende Psychologie
Springer 2013; US$ 9.99Was ist Kultur? Sind die Menschen in China anders als in Deutschland - und wenn ja, warum? Worauf begründen sich diese Unterschiede und wie lassen sie sich messen? Mit diesen Fragen befasst sich innerhalb der Psychologie eine ganze Teildisziplin, die sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, das Verhältnis von Mensch und Kultur zu erforschen. Schon die... more...
The Many Faces of Homosexuality
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.50This groundbreaking book examines the diverse manifestations of homosexuality in various historical periods and non-Western cultures. The distinguished authors examine Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior, Mexican homosexual interaction in public contexts, male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil, and much more. more...









