Contemporary History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Lynne K. Miyake
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga

This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions…

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The Early Years of Mind

This book offers a panoramic overview as well as in-depth accounts of the first decades of Mind - one of the leading philosophical journals since almost 150 years. Founded in 1876 by Alexander Bain, it so…

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Stephen Baxter
The Time Ships

There is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but he "present" in which we live.A c…

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Xiang Fan,
Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China

Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century, highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent programmers, in…

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Assaf Shelleg
The State of Afterness

The State of Afterness traces the histories and cultural histories of contemporary music in Israel since the 1980s and through the 2020s. With afterness defined as the state of being unconditioned by terr…

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Feminine Visibility in Contemporary Iran

Feminine Visibility in Contemporary Iran: Women, Religion, Culture and the State is a captivating account of how the struggles of Iranian women shaped the country's cultural, political and religious life.…

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Richard Mccallum
Evangelical Christian Responses to Islam

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? Who was Muhammad? How does theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict affect Christian-Muslim relations? This is a book about Evangelical Christians and how they are a…

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Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The city reemerged from the as…

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China in Contemporary Capitalism

China in Contemporary Capitalism presents outstanding research in Political Economy on the economic, social, and political development of China from a unique Global South-centred perspective.The authors c…

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Emily Edmonds-Poli, David a Shirk
Contemporary Mexican Politics

This widely acclaimed book provides a comprehensive analysis of Mexico's current, complex political landscape, up to the López Obrador administration and Claudia Sheinbaum's 2024 election.Leading experts …

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Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
Sadistic Cholas

Analyzing how Peruvian feminist art and activism subverts and reclaims the chola stereotype to confront colonial and patriarchal institutions.Indigenous Andean women have long been derided in Peru, spurne…

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Sarah Craycraft
The Village Project

Since the collapse of socialism, Bulgaria's population has been on the move---out of rural regions and into cities, or out of the country altogether. Yet today there is a countermovement of young, urban B…

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Emily Edmonds-Poli, David a Shirk
Contemporary Mexican Politics

This widely acclaimed book provides a comprehensive analysis of Mexico's current, complex political landscape, up to the López Obrador administration and Claudia Sheinbaum's 2024 election.Leading experts …

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Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
Sadistic Cholas

Analyzing how Peruvian feminist art and activism subverts and reclaims the chola stereotype to confront colonial and patriarchal institutions.Indigenous Andean women have long been derided in Peru, spurne…

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Aaron Segal, Nicholas F Stang
Systematic Metaphysics

Contemporary metaphysics is most commonly approached in a piecemeal fashion, not systematically. Even those philosophers who end up with a metaphysical system tend to tackle issues one at a time, and do n…

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Jacob Leigh
Contemporary Directors' Cinema

Contemporary Directors' Cinemarefreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful achievements b…

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Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo,
Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking

An in-depth exploration of how traumatic memories of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) have shaped contemporary filmmaking ethics and aesthetics.

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Isaac Friesen,
Crossing Communities

War, sectarianism, and imperialism have eroded diversity in the Middle East. While Egypt has been spared the scale of violence devastating Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq, religious nationalism, econo…

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Confucius,
The Analects

The Analects of Confucius has stood as the bedrock of Chinese culture for over 2,500 years, shaping the trajectory of human history in ways unmatched by nearly any other secular philosophy. But until now,…

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Enrico Mascelloni
The Fine Arms: Geopolitics of Contemporary Art

Contemporary art and its central role in the global geopolitical landscape> Declaring the category of soft power obsolete, The Fine Arms explores in the first part the relationship of contemporary art …

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