A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensation... Zobraziť viac
An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and letters. Christopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and set out to make a different one... Zobraziť viac
As this remarkable story begins, the Chinese people were just recovering from the devastating effects of the Cultural Revolution and the loss of the country's revered leader Chairman Mao... Zobraziť viac
Úvod do sociální a kulturní antropologie poukazuje na rozdíly ve společenském životě a v kultuře lidí a podává srozumitelný přehled antropologie. Zaměřuje se na hlavní témata, jako jsou příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál či politické systémy... Zobraziť viac
Čierna kniha komunizmu zachytáva dejiny a zemepis jednej utópie, ktorá sa pokladala za ideové hnutie v službách pokroku ľudstva, a len čo bola uvedená do praxe, stala sa na celom svete univerzálnym zločinom... Zobraziť viac
When you lose the person who is most essential to you, who do you become? ... Zobraziť viac
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and... Zobraziť viac
Geospatial information plays an important role in managing location dependent pandemic situations across different communities and domains. Geospatial information and technologies are particularly critical to strengthening urban and rural... Zobraziť viac
This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the... Zobraziť viac
This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions... Zobraziť viac
What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing... Zobraziť viac
What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people's lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for... Zobraziť viac
What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in Sao Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from art and architecture to film and digital media - responding to new forms of violence associated with... Zobraziť viac
Source Code describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates’ life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft ... Zobraziť viac
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the ... Zobraziť viac
Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend... Zobraziť viac
'In a book of sensitivity and grace, Sattin does not just describe the nomadic way of life, but also evokes it . . . This is A BOOK OF BEAUTY AND BEGUILING RHYTHM that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders' The Times'... Zobraziť viac
'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976–84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment... Zobraziť viac
But what if the rules were different? Imagine a world in which women have all the power. A world in which they work together to shape their societies and their futures. In reality, women's communities have always existed, and continue to thrive... Zobraziť viac
More than eighty designs—iconic, archaic, quotidian, and taboo—that have defined arc of human reproduction. While birth often brings great joy, making babies is a knotty enterprise. The designed objects that surround us when it comes to menstruation,... Zobraziť viac
