403 títulos para "Longleaf Services On Behalf Of Cornell University"
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Popular Uprisings in the Philippines, 1840-1940
Sturtevant, David Reeves
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The Battle for Fortune
Makley, Charlene
978-1-5017-1964-6In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and...
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Evils of Polygyny
McDermott, Rose
978-1-5017-1804-5Why do men act violently toward women?What are the consequences of "normal violence," not only for women and children but also for the men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it?The Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful structural factor that instigates, enforces, and r...
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Speaking of Slavery
Epstein, Steven A
978-1-5017-2512-8"The language of slavery is the last but steep price any society must pay for having tolerated the institution and profited from it. . . . The hypocrisies, the racism, the sexism, the brutality bound up with the daily practice of slavery live on in language, where they continue to punish the de...
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Next Line, Please
978-1-5017-1500-6In this book, David Lehman, the longtime series editor of the Best American Poetry, offers a masterclass in writing in form and collaborative composition. An inspired compilation of his weekly column on the American Scholar website, Next Line, Please makes the case for poetry open to all. Next Line,...
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This Sex Which Is Not One
Irigaray, Luce
978-0-8014-9331-7In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of...
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Critical Terrains
Lowe, Lisa
978-1-5017-2805-1Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexual...
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Divine Sophia
Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich / Kornblatt, Judith Deutsch
978-0-8014-7479-8The founder of modern Russian philosophy, Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) is widely considered its greatest practitioner. Together with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, he is one of the towering intellectual figures in late-nineteenth-century Russia, and his diverse writings influenced much of the non-Marxist...
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Breakup 2.0
Gershon, Ilana
978-0-8014-7789-8A few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you...
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Russian Formalism
Steiner, Peter / Steiner, P
978-0-8014-9366-9Russian Formalism, one of this century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of the most recent developments in literary theory, Peter Steiner here offers the most comprehensive critique of the move...
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