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  • Romancing Through Italy
    Robert James Connors
    Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy. Emperors and cave-dwellers, elderly goat-herds and ghost towns come to life in visits to the hidden corners of the cradle of mo...
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    22,20 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish
    Jesus Nez Romay / Jesus Nunez Romay / Jesus Nzqez Romay
    Because the first socialist revolution in the Americas took place in Cuba, this country has also seen the rise of new terms and the introduction of new, very specific meanings for old terms, adopted as required to express new realities. How can these neologisms be rendered in English, when no English-speaking country has as yet carried out a Marxist-Leninist social revolution a...
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    11,00 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • Entre yuyos y buenezas
    Valentina Pereyra
    Este libro ofrece un acercamiento al mundo de las plantas medicinales y el uso que las mujeres rurales les dan en el departamento de Canelones, Uruguay. A lo largo de sus páginas se explora la producción social del conocimiento de estas mujeres en torno al uso de plantas como medicina haciendo hincapié en conocer sus prácticas y experiencias y los significados que les otorgan a...
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    15,08 €

  • La Tirana
    Lautaro Núñez Atencio
    La Tirana, Desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad es el descubrimiento de una festividad antigua, es descubrir el porqué de este espacio que es una puerta al cielo, un axis mundi (eje de mundo) que se abre año a año en el pueblo de La Tirana, centro de peregrinaje y de vitalidad religiosa y cultural. Lautaro Núñez, oriundo de estas tierras tarapaqueñas, indaga en los mismos orí...
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    31,72 €

  • The Cost of Being Human
    Paul Gerardi
    Most people do not lose their ethics in dramatic moments. They lose them quietly. We live inside environments that reward performance, punish moral courage, and quietly treat empathy as weakness. The Cost of Being Human is a philosophical examination of ethics, power, and judgment in a culture that asks us to optimize ourselves at the expense of our integrity. Drawing on philos...
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    10,16 €

  • Flüssige Tabus Wie Verbote schmelzen - und was an ihre Stelle tritt
    ELSAIED ABDELGHANI
    Buchbeschreibung: 'Flüssige Tabus: Wie Verbote schmelzen - und was an ihre Stelle tritt'Das Buch von Elsaied Abdelghani bietet eine tiefgreifende soziologische Analyse des Wandels gesellschaftlicher Normen. Die zentrale These: Tabus verschwinden nicht, sie tauschen lediglich ihre Form. Sie werden 'flüssig' und passen sich dem modernen Markt und der digitalen Öffentlichkeit an.D...
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    19,01 €

  • The Joy of TikTok
    Alexander Austin
    Before many people ever open TikTok, they hear the warnings first: 'It’s dangerous.' 'It spies on people.' 'It destroys young minds.' But what if the story is more complicated, and far more interesting, than the headlines suggest?The Joy of TikTok and Its Usefulness is Alexander Austin’s clear-eyed, human-centered look at one of the most talked-about apps in the world. Moving p...
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    21,88 €

  • Cypher Culture
    Ethan Stoneman / Joseph Packer
    By highlighting the interplay between esotericism, conspiracy theory, and fandom, Cypher Culture examines how marginalized and embattled groups learn to read cultural texts for hidden meanings in hostile environments. Drawing on Leo Strauss’s theory of esotericism, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman argue that 'reading between the lines' has moved from classical philosophy into p...
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    44,79 €

  • The Empty Nest Reset
    Selma Aarvik
    When the children leave home, the silence can feel like freedom and loss at the same time. You have more time - but fewer anchors. You are still you, yet the roles that once structured your days have shifted overnight. The question is not only how to cope, but how to rebuild a life that feels sturdy, connected, and meaningful.The Empty Nest Reset is a practical guide to empty n...
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    34,23 €

  • Some Things are Just True
    SuzAnne Driscoll
    Common sense called. It wants its world back.We are drowning in information and starving for wisdom. We are raising children who cannot make change, read a map, or sit through a conversation without checking their phones. We are performing our lives for strangers online while the people who actually love us wait for us to look up.SuzAnne Driscoll is looking up. And she has some...
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    10,32 €

  • 《任建明谜语研究文集》
    建明 任
    《任建明谜语研究文集》是国内民间谜学领域一部扎根中原田野、兼具史料厚度与学术深度的专项研究著作，全书共收录40篇民间谜语研究专题文章，总计360余页，约45万字。是作者历时八年参与《中国民间文学大系·谜语·河南卷》编纂工作过程中，逐步沉淀形成的系统性研究成果，也是河南本土民间谜语研究领域的代表性专著。该书的创作缘起于2018年中国民间文学大系出版工程启动的时代背景，作者全程参与河南民间谜语的全省普查搜集工作，在走村入户的田野调研中打捞散落在豫乡田埂间的口传谜作，陆续产出了一批扎根河南本土文化的研究文稿，其中《河南民间字谜创作手法初探》曾刊发于中国作家协会主办的《文艺报》，为民间字谜的源流梳理与生存现状研究提供了扎实的本土样本。文集最初以35篇文稿、30万字的规模作为内部交流资料印行，仅在2025年11月'《大系·谜语卷》《中华灯谜年鉴·谜语研究分册》...
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    60,24 €

  • Empath Self-Care Guide
    T.S Avini
    Are you an empath struggling to protect your energy? Discover the secrets to setting boundaries and nurturing your inner self in a world that demands more than it gives. In a world that often overwhelms with its cacophony of emotions, empaths face the unique challenge of maintaining their own emotional balance while navigating the feelings of those around them. 'Empath Self-Car...
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    14,08 €

  • La dicha de tu levedad
    Gilberto Favián Cavazos Valdez
    Una colección de poemas que explora el amor, el deseo, la espiritualidad y la identidad desde una mirada íntima, contemporánea y profundamente transformadora. 10 ...
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    12,48 €

  • Blood and Bone
    Luigi Pascal Rondanini
    For two centuries the vampire has been the most anatomically detailed monster in fiction - and almost no one has taken its body seriously. This book does.Blood and Bone is a speculative physiology of the undead: a straight-faced dissection of the great vampires of literature and film, from Polidori’s moonlit Lord Ruthven and Le Fanu’s Carmilla to Stoker’s reflectionless Count, ...
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    16,64 €

  • Love Wars
    Mary Irwin
    This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen.Drawing on series from the 1960s to the present day, Irwin presents five themed chapters around the theme of romantic love, from searching...
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    51,13 €

  • Brand Lady Gaga
    Kat Nelligan
    This book is about Lady Gaga’s branding-the stories that inform it and the ideas that shape her public image.Who is Lady Gaga and how does she connect with her fans and audiences via storytelling? These questions guide Nelligan’s discourse and textual analyses of Gaga’s media interviews, product marketing, songs, albums and documentaries to reveal numerous themes and messages t...
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    51,46 €

  • Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons
    On its 50th anniversary, the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has found renewed popularity and a generally positive representation in popular culture. Reflecting on these fifty years of development and history, and looking forward to D&D’s bright future, Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons: Explorations of the Sacred through Fantasy Worlds explores the...
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    50,86 €

  • Caste in Its Own Shadow
    Anil Maheshwari
    The stories featured in Caste in Its Own Shadow are translated from the original Urdu. They serve as compelling literary and sociological documents on caste-based discrimination among Indian Muslims. While caste hierarchy in India is typically associated with Hindu society, these narratives subtly demonstrate that caste consciousness is deeply woven into the lived experience of...
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    23,06 €

  • Impossible Shot
    Eric Gary Anderson
    Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Hatice Bay, Thomas Britt, Robert Burgoyne, Emily Diane Burkett, Jack Finucane, Adam Hebert, Noemí Fernández Labarga, Russell Meeuf, Wade Newhouse, Isaiah Frost Rivera, Nancy McGuire Roche, Laurent Shervington, Amira Shokr, James Steck, Christy Tidwell, and Lauren TocciAfter the commercial and critical success of 2017’s Get Out, Jordan Peele ...
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    42,86 €

  • Beyond Bozo
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    72,12 €

  • Cannabis Lore
    David James
    Every strain has a story.Before OG Kush was a dispensary staple, it was a mystery clone passed hand to hand through the San Fernando Valley. Before Sour Diesel dominated the East Coast, it was an accidental cross in a New York City apartment. Before all of it, there was a mountain range in Afghanistan and a group of surfers from Orange County who decided to change the world.CAN...
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    19,25 €

  • Mujer de un solo hombre
    María Fernanda García Pérez
    Tras un error de juventud que marca sus destinos, Haddou y Hamid abandonan Marruecos para buscar un futuro en la Europa del siglo XIX.Para Haddou, la transformación del mundo no es un espectáculo, sino un mandato interno. Sintiéndose obligada a no ser una mera espectadora de la historia, se entrega a los movimientos sociales de su tiempo con el anhelo de aportar, simplemente, s...
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    18,00 €

  • Yesterday Once More
    Pam DuBois
    Yesterday Once More: A Celebration of Vintage Toys is a colorful, affectionate journey through the playthings that shaped childhood in mid-twentieth-century America.Drawing on her memories of growing up in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s, Pam DuBois revisits the toys, games, television tie-ins, premiums, and neighborhood pastimes that defined a generation. From tin Fer...
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    22,83 €

  • Media Literacy In an AI World
    John S Pritchett
    The message is no longer the whole problem. We must also understand the systems that create, select, personalize, summarize, and amplify it.Artificial intelligence has made information faster, more polished, and easier to produce-but not necessarily more reliable. Images can look authentic without recording a real event. Voices and faces can be convincingly imitated. Rumors can...
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    30,26 €

  • Conspiracies of a Mad Man True Crime and Culture
    Anthony Conley
    Conspiracies of a Mad Man: True Crime and CultureWhat if the stories we’ve been told only reveal part of the truth?Conspiracies of a Mad Man: True Crime and Culture takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through some of history’s most controversial events, enduring mysteries, true crime cases, and conspiracy theories. Blending historical accounts, cultural analysis, and a...
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    22,68 €

  • Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls
    Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette
    Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in 20th and 21st-century filmmaking.Topics include a discursive analysis of stereotypes; roles garnered by Halle Berry, the only Black woman to receive an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role; the promise of characters, relationships, and ...
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    50,99 €

  • Nostalgia, Religion and Popular Culture
    Chris Deacy
    Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II’s death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion. Focusing on the lived experiences of ’ordinary people’ and in tandem with the ’turn to the self’ discourse, Deacy suggests that our relationship with nostalgia illustrates the shift from objective and transce...
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    51,24 €


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