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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground

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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground
This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on west...

CHF 134.00

Heart of Darkness

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Heart of Darkness
Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.

CHF 155.00

Imagining Apocalypse

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Imagining Apocalypse
This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not ...

CHF 134.00

Women At Sea

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Women At Sea
From cross-dressing pirates to servants and slaves, women have played vital and often surprising roles in the navigation and cultural mapping of Caribbean territory. Yet these experiences rarely surface in the increasing body of critical literature on women s travel writing, which has focused on European or American women traveling to exotic locales as imperial subjects. This stellar collection of essays offers a contestatory discourse that em...

CHF 124.00

Healing Cultures

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Healing Cultures
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people. What happens, however, when cultures themselves are in jeopardy? What are the "antidotes" or healing modalities for an ailing culture? Healing Cultures addresses these questions from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, holistic folk traditions, litera...

CHF 134.00

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
This work includes the complete authoritative text with biographical & historical contexts, critical history and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives.

CHF 134.00

Georgia

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Georgia
This book is the first comprehensive cultural and historical introduction to modern Georgia. It covers the country region by region, taking the form of a literary journey through the transition from Soviet Georgia to the modern independent nation state. Peter Nasmyth traveled extensively in Georgia over a period of 5 years, and his lively and topical survey charts the nation's remarkable cultural and historical journey to statehood. This autho...

CHF 134.00

My Lai

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My Lai
This volume introduces students to the most controversial incident of the Vietnam War - the My Lai massacre when almost 400 Vietnamese civilians were killed in four hours. The authors discuss the ramifications of the cover-up and the ensuing investigations for the American public, policymakers, the anti-War movement and the soldiers involved. They examine the causes of the massacre and the issues of culpability and human rights. The narrative ...

CHF 134.00

The Erotics of Passage

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The Erotics of Passage
James Williams explores in this book the work of French writer and film-maker Marguerite Duras.

CHF 69.00

The World Turned Upside Down

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The World Turned Upside Down
This unique collection presents Native American perspectives on the events of the colonial era, from the first encounters between Indians and Europeans in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century. The documents collected here are drawn from letters, speeches, and records of treaty negotiations in which Indians addressed settlers. Colin Calloway's introduction discusses the nature of such sour...

CHF 134.00

Romania Versus the United States

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Romania Versus the United States
This book is a revealing insiders' account of the deteriorating special relationship between the United States and Romania in the last years of the Ceausescu dictatorship. The authors were the two chief diplomatic actors in the drama, on opposite sides of the dialogue in Bucharest: Roger Kirk as U.S. ambassador to Romania, Mircea Raceanu as the Romanian Foreign Ministry's chief of U.S. and Canadian affairs. They document the tangled web of sta...

CHF 123.00

Annual Abstract of Statistics 2008

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Annual Abstract of Statistics 2008
The most comprehensive source of statistics in the UK, Annual Abstract of Statistics is a statistical encyclopaedia including over 10, 000 series of data and covering key aspects of the UK's economic, social and industrial life. The data are presented in easy-to-read tables and supported by notes.

CHF 143.00

Transboundary Environmental Problems and Cultural Theory

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Transboundary Environmental Problems and Cultural Theory
In this book, Marco Verweij presents a new and challenging theoretical framework with which to understand international relations, based on the cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael Thompson, Aaron Wildavsky and others. By applying this framework in a detailed study of the environmental protection of the River Rhine in Western Europe and the Great Lakes of North America, he also contributes to a better understanding of how transbo...

CHF 142.00

Milton: Paradise Lost

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Milton: Paradise Lost
Aids English literature GCSE and A-level students in coursework projects and study of set texts by increasing understanding and enjoyment of the books. The book is designed to provide imaginative responses, and should stimulate independent critical appraisal of Milton's "Paradise Lost".

CHF 31.90