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  • 9781566633352. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Glued... 9781566633352. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication breadth of knowledge and clarity of argument that have made Mr... more
  • It s a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have... It s a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear such as markings highlighting slight damage to the cover minimal wear to the binding etc. but they will not affect the overall reading... more
  • This book traces the historical relationship between male-male desire and the ... This book traces the historical relationship between male-male desire and the dialogue genre from Plato to the present day. It provides a valuable historical perspective on current debates over the place of homosexuality in modern Western culture.... more
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  • 9781473232518. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. The t... 9781473232518. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. The tyranny of the gods is absolute and they are capricious malevolent and almost all-powerful playing cruel games with the fates of mortals for their own ends . . . A vibrant... more
  • The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years wit... The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that through early detection and by controlling several risk factors a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this... more
  • Toward the end of the fifteenth century Spanish Christians near the border of ... Toward the end of the fifteenth century Spanish Christians near the border of Castile and Muslim-ruled Granada held complex views about religious tolerance. People living in frontier cities bore much of the cost of war against Granada and faced the... more
  • The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant clich of contemporary t... The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant clich of contemporary theory which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow the secular age seems to have been replaced by... more
  • A comprehensive study of the pervasive role of immersion and immersive media i... A comprehensive study of the pervasive role of immersion and immersive media in postmodern culture from a humanities and social sciences perspective. Virtual reality augmented reality mixed reality and other modes of digitally induced immersion... more
  • Benjamin Franklin s 1752 electric kite experiment using lightning to throw a s... Benjamin Franklin s 1752 electric kite experiment using lightning to throw a spark from a key made him a celebrity winning sympathy in France for the fight against the British. This text shows Franklin to be a great hoaxer and the fabled experiment... more
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  • Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties abo... Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil which emerge in relation to the... more
  • A unique memoir that interweaves poetry narrative meditation and social histor... A unique memoir that interweaves poetry narrative meditation and social history A Spiritual Life explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman s spiritual coming-of-age capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as... more
  • The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities the freak show or ... The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities the freak show or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university a... more
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