7461 results for '"David A. Coomes (Editor)'

Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Ex-university library. From Somerville College Library, Oxford. Boards and page block are marked. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and...

Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including...

It has been observed that the reevaluation of Romanticism is a special feature of post-New-Critical or revisionist criticism in America. Constituting a lively ecumenical dialogue between literary...

Drawing on four generations of family correspondence --reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and failures of an American family touched by personal scandal-- this book presents the saga...

"Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis and champion of the "talking cure" who charted the human unconscious. He is also a polarizing figure, with many defenders and detractors. Some...

An urgent, provocative collection of essays from Latinx thought leaders heralding a more inclusive vision of America's future Latinx people make up the second-largest ethnic and racial group in...

This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of France's foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between...

This outstanding new volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the theories, topics, subjects, and discources that now feature in the law school and undergraduate legal studies...

Two-volume collection of prose writing published in Russia since 1915. Twenty-six selections from twenty different authors, the selections are polished works from Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn and less...

These writings deal with the phrase "We are a community. We are a nation. We are alive"

Global Lockdown is the first book to apply a transnational feminist framework to the study of criminalization and imprisonment. The distinguished contributors to this collection offer a variety of...

The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this book points to some striking similarities between our culture and that of the ancient world,...

Tragedy was central to the experience of being a fifth-century Athenian citizen. Tragedy explored fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central...

And overview -- The 1920s: birth, insurgency, retrenchment -- Militancy and combat: third period communism, 1929-1934 -- The popular front against fascism, 1935-1945 -- Cold War and demise, 1945--

Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? Not long ago, the answer seemed obvious: they could be and they were. Nationalist rhetoric, hostility to the left and to parliamentary government, and...

Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and...

Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled “too dark” to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards “I have a vivid...

From Aliens to Amadeus, get your fill of 1980s nostalgia with this movie bible of all things bold, bizarre, and boisterous. We've diligently compiled a list of the most influential films of the 1980s...

The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social...

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the...