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  • The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
    Marshall Sahlins
    One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the...
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    26,81 €

  • Living with Civilisations
    Gungwu Wang
    Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies’ 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience.The Southeast Asian region is home to a set of diverse local cultures and distinct...
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    58,45 €

  • Living with Civilisations
    Gungwu Wang
    Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies’ 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience.The Southeast Asian region is home to a set of diverse local cultures and distinct...
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    35,21 €

  • The Festival of Indra
    Michael Baltutis
    Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. ...
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    44,55 €

  • He Humour And Pathos Of Anglo-Indian Life
    Mayer J. E.
    J.E. Mayer’s 'The Humour and Pathos of Anglo-Indian Life' is a captivating literary work that provides a colorful and insightful portrayal of the Anglo-Indian network throughout the British Raj in India. Published in the past due 19th century, this book offers a pleasing combo of humor and sentiment, shedding mild on the lives, idiosyncrasies, and demanding situations confronte...
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    14,47 €

  • Straddling White and Black Worlds
    Paul Clement Reck
    How does a white man understand what it’s like to be Black? How can he start to form a sense of racial consciousness, and take action for racial justice?For Dr Paul Reck PhD, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ramapo College, this journey was sparked and informed by the interactions and relationships he has, and has had, with his Black godchildren and Black students he has ...
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    23,89 €

  • Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
    Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy. ...
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    68,92 €

  • Sexual Life of Primitive People
    Hans Fehlinger
    Sexual Life of Primitive People, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These b...
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    20,59 €

  • The Seven Sisters of Sleep;Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World
    M. C. Cooke
    The Seven Sisters of Sleep;Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World , is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole...
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    28,36 €

  • Seven Legs Across the Seas
    Samuel Murray
    Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer’s Impressions of Many Lands, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatte...
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    30,40 €

  • Medicalising borders
    Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power techniques that originate in European modernity. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Adequação De Líderes & Competências
    Tibor Simcsik
    JULIO CESAR em 47 a.C. declarou a frase da capa e lembrada (Veni,...) originandoVi, Li eApliquei, marcando o meu nome Tibor Simcsik (2024 d.C.), que vivenciou e pesquisou o que está sendo apresentado e detalhado ao máximo (teorias e práticas) para a presente época tumultuada pelaAI(também detalhada e semelhantes de RHu)ao leitor atencioso e primoroso por aprofundar o conhecimen...
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    9,96 €

  • Identidades Dialogadas
    Roseli Bernardo Silva Dos Santos (organizadora)
    O presente livro tem como princípio ressignificar a questão identitária em diferentes olhares para o campo etnicidade, educação e saúde. A perspectiva é de pensar no sujeito estabelecendo relações com o corpo e o contexto social e político. Neste sentido, enfocamos com maior relevância os elementos culturais, processos de reconhecimento e pertencimento para que se fortaleçam as...
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    14,45 €

  • Global networks of Indigeneity
    This book brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, forming a global network of writers, thinkers, and scholars connected by common investments in Indigenous futures. ...
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    169,51 €

  • THE COMPENDIUM OF NUÄR ORIGIN, CULTURE, AND MORAL EVALUATION
    J. TAB CHAROA
    Fr. James Tab Charoa is the Dean of Studies of Theologicum at St. Paul’s Major Seminary both Philosophicum and Theologicum Juba-South Sudan. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Khartoum in 2003. He has pastoral experience in the Archdiocese of Khartoum in Kosti Pastoral Religion. He was appointed by the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference as Vice-Rector of St. Paul’s...
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    26,68 €

  • Sex Education 101
    Jeana Jorgensen
    Do you look back at your sex ed classes and wonder WTF?! Are you a parent looking at your kid’s curriculum and asking the same question?Sex Education 101 is less of a how-to of sex education and more of a why. Why does abstinence-only sex ed receive so much federal funding? Why do instructors show gross images of STIs to scare students? The answers, believe it or not, have a lo...
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    14,94 €

  • African Migration
    Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo / Victor Ojakorotu
    The issue of African migration since the Covid-19 pandemic depended on novel influences and determinants. The chapters in this edited volume evaluate recent variables that instigated the migration of Africans and assess implications for Africans, Africans in diaspora, and their global reverberations. The volume unites well-researched and theoretically informed empirical studies...
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    199,73 €

  • Readings on the Anthropology of Food
    Robert C. Ulin
    Readings on the Anthropology of Food: Cuisine, Culture, and Power provides students with a collection of articles that emphasize the close relationship between history, culture, and power in shaping the options that most people face globally in terms of the varieties of food systems. The readings critique the industrialist capitalist food system, evaluate alternative systems, a...
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    174,00 €

  • Readings on the Anthropology of Food
    Robert C. Ulin
    Readings on the Anthropology of Food: Cuisine, Culture, and Power provides students with a collection of articles that emphasize the close relationship between history, culture, and power in shaping the options that most people face globally in terms of the varieties of food systems. The readings critique the industrialist capitalist food system, evaluate alternative systems, a...
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    123,52 €

  • A Belated Industry
    Jane Addams
    At the turn of the 20th century, social reformer Jane Addams provides a thought-provoking look at the economic vulnerabilities facing young working women in America’s industrial centers. Addams’ account draws on her groundbreaking work at Chicago’s Hull House settlement, casting an empathetic yet unflinching eye on the harsh realities of poverty and gender inequality.Through pi...
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    5,26 €

  • Wonder in South Asia
    Tulasi Srinivas
    A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions. ...
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    126,54 €

  • Making Strong Friendships in the Age of Technology
    Rishi Kapoor
    Technology has revolutionized the way we communicate and interact with the world around us, and friendships are no exception. While digital platforms can provide a convenient and accessible way to connect with new people, building strong friendships in the age of technology requires a balance of online and offline interaction.Here are some tips for making strong friendships in ...
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    23,96 €

  • The Chora of Metaponto 8, Part i
    This book presents the final report on the excavation and reconstruction of the buildings and kilns at Pantanello. It is accompanied by an extensive analysis and catalog of the finds from the site, including fine grey ware and banded ware, cooking ware, coarse wares, and amphorae of the last two centuries of the Roman Republic and first century of the Imperial period in souther...
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    165,33 €

  • South Indian Brahmins in Sri Lankan Culture
    Bandara Bandaranayake
    This book presents a new and confrontational perspective on South Indian migration to Sri Lanka, in contrast to the traditional historical records.The central theme of the book is about a group of South Indian Brāhmins who migrated to Sath Korale (Kurunegala District), Sri Lanka, in the 16th century, during the Mundukondapola regional kingdom. In addition to an account of Brāhm...
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    18,10 €

  • Gathering Sounds Too
    Tenali Hrenak
    In Gathering Sounds Too, readers revisit the Rainbow gathering community through the audio archive project, Sounds from the Rainbow, created over a 23-year period. As part of this experience, readers are invited to wander through approximately 23 unique sound files or Sound-Trails, following a loose-knit dreamscape narrative, which utilizes a Rainbow Trail theme to imaginativel...
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    56,19 €

  • Gathering Sounds Too
    Tenali Hrenak
    In Gathering Sounds Too, readers revisit the Rainbow gathering community through the audio archive project, Sounds from the Rainbow, created over a 23-year period. As part of this experience, readers are invited to wander through approximately 23 unique sound files or Sound-Trails, following a loose-knit dreamscape narrative, which utilizes a Rainbow Trail theme to imaginativel...
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    39,99 €

  • Beyond The Blue
    Phillippa Leslie
    Finally people are beginning to believe that there is a possibility of there being ’something out there’! I have attempted to reveal the fascinating, ethereal, magical expanse of our Universe and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life existing within it, other than ourselves. Up to now files on UFOs and alien craft/beings have been sealed, but we are now experiencing thei...
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    19,15 €

  • Conto - Ligações De Uma Paixão
    Duarte M. B.
    Sinopse: O amor tem seus caminhos misteriosos para fazer se encontrarem duas pessoas. Após isso o que os movem, influenciam, inspiram e faz acontecer adanadada paixão-amor? Será uma meraQuímica, Destino, Acaso,Vontade e ou Desejos de e entre essas duas pessoas? Muitas indagações e reflexões ainda envolvem os sentimentos denominados de amor e paixão, mas aqui amor e paixão serão...
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    10,19 €

  • Enfermedad mental por sugestión
    Milton Fredy Valdez
    A lo largo del transcurrir de los tiempos, el miedo y la confusión han creado las peores catástrofes en la mente humana; todas las culturas están plegadas de historias que pueden superar la ficción. Ante esa afirmación me dispuse a investigar desde creencias y enfermedades inducidas... Claudia nunca pensó que su propio cuerpo obedeciera a los caprichos de un extraño, y de maner...
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    8,50 €

  • Religion and Culture in a Changing Malawi
    Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza
    Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza was born in 1943 at Mchacha Village, T.A. Malemia in Nsanje District where he grew up and discovered his vocation as a Catholic priest, being ordained in 1969. After studies for a Master’s degree at the University of Aberdeen, he returned to Malawi and was appointed Lecturer in Religious Studies at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, in 1977. D...
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    39,09 €