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Ansu Datta From Bengal to the Cape
Bengali slaves in South Africa from 17th to 19th century
Engels | 178 pagina's | Xlibris Corporation, [Gordon, NSW] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Steve Jones The serpent's promise
the Bible retold as science
Bijbelse verhalen in het licht van moderne wetenschap
Non-fictie
Engels | 437 pagina's | Little, Brown, London | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Sass Brown Refashioned
cutting-edge clothing from upcycled materials
Non-fictie
Engels | 208 pagina's | Laurence King Publishing, London | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Christine R. Yano Pink globalization
Hello Kitty's trek across the Pacific
"In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization--the spread of goods and images labeled cute (kawaii) from Japan to other parts of the industrial world. The concept of pink globalization connects the expansion of Japanese companies to overseas markets, the enhanced distribution of Japanese products, and the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 322 pagina's | Duke University Press, Durham | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Haruo Shirane Japan and the culture of the four seasons
nature, literature, and the arts
"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 311 pagina's | Columbia University Press, New York, NY | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Thomas Ort Art and life in modernist Prague
Karel Čapek and his generation, 1911-1938
Studie over de Tsjechische schrijver (1890-1938) en over de generatie van schrijvers en kunstenaars die het modernisme deed ontstaan in Tsjechslowakije tijdens de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw.
Non-fictie
Engels | 258 pagina's | Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Transnationalism and contemporary global history
Engels | 295 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Jill Salen Vintage swimwear
historical patterns and techniques
Engels | 128 pagina's | Batsford, London | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Keith Dallas American comic book chronicles
Non-fictie
Engels | 287 pagina's | TwoMorrows Publishing, Raleigh, N.C | 2013
Gedrukt boek
The Countess of Carnarvon Lady Catherine, the earl, and the real Downton Abbey
Beschrijving van de belevenissen van een adellijke familie in Groot-Brittannië in de periode tussen de twee wereldoorlogen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 353 pagina's | Broadway Books, New York | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Christian Wiman My bright abyss
meditation of a modern believer
Engels | 182 pagina's | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Margalit Fox The riddle of the labyrinth
the quest to crack an ancient code and the uncovering of a lost civilisation
Engels | 363 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2014
Gedrukt boek
William Fitzgerald How to read a Latin poem
if you can't read Latin yet
Engels | 278 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Ian C. Storey | Arlene Allan A guide to ancient Greek drama
Engels | 331 pagina's | Wiley Blackwell, Malden, MA | 2014
Gedrukt boek
William Easterly The tyranny of experts
economists, dictators, and the forgotten rights of the poor
Controversieel boek van de ontwikkelingseconoom, waarin de opkomst beschreven wordt van ‘de tirannie van de experts’: experts die de rol van ambtenaren en technocraten innemen om zonder aanzien des persoons een land hun politieke ideologie op te leggen. De vraag naar economische groei negeert de rechten van de armen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 394 pagina's | Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Philip F. Kennedy Scheherazade's children
global encounters with the Arabian Nights
Engels | 450 pagina's | New York Univeristy Press, New York, London | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Anthony Kaldellis Ethnography after antiquity
foreign lands and peoples in Byzantine literature
Engels | 275 pagina's | University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Shorter Scottish medieval romances
Florimond of Albany, Sir Colling the Knycht, King Orphius, Roswall and Lillian
Engels | 290 pagina's | The Scottish Text Society, [Edinburgh] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Emma Gee Aratus and the astronomical tradition
Engels | 298 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Imperial geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman space
Engels | 274 pagina's | Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC | 2013
Gedrukt boek