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  1. My Life as a Foreign Country (Inbunden)

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    Brian Turner

    ISBN: 9780224097437 - UTGIVEN: 2014-06

    In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner was at the head of a convoy of 3,500 soldiers as they entered the Iraqi desert. Ten years later, he lies awake beside his sleeping wife, hallucinating: he is a drone aircraft. He hovers over a landscape in which the terrains of every conflict, of Bosnia and Vietnam, Ir[...]

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    från 178.00 kr
  2. Knowing Nature (Pocket)

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    Mara J. Goldman, Paul Nadasdy, Matthew D. Turner

    ISBN: 9780226301419 - UTGIVEN: 201104

    Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives - one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowled[...]

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    från 321.00 kr
  3. More Than Cool Reason (Pocket)

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    George Lakoff, Mark Turner, George Lakoff

    ISBN: 9780226468129 - UTGIVEN: 198902

    "The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme thi[...]

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    från 121.00 kr
  4. Brains/Practices/Relativism (Häftad)

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    Stephen P. Turner

    ISBN: 9780226817408 - UTGIVEN: 200204

    Brains/Practices/Relativism presents the first major rethinking of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a process of adaptation to input that, in turn, leads to patterns of response distinct to each individual. Th[...]

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    från 259.00 kr
  5. From Counterculture to Cyberculture (Häftad)

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    Fred Turner

    ISBN: 9780226817422 - UTGIVEN: 200806

    In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award - winning "Whole Eart[...]

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    från 130.00 kr
  6. Communitas (Häftad)

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    Edith Turner

    ISBN: 9780230339088 - UTGIVEN: 201202

    Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone'- as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on full meaning. The experience of Communitas, almost beyond strict definition and with almost endless vari[...]

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    från 309.00 kr
  7. The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives (Häftad)

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    Mauricio Anton, Alan Turner

    ISBN: 9780231102292 - UTGIVEN: 200005

    In this beautifully illustrated natural history that links extinct larger feline species with those still in existence, collaborators Alan Turner and Mauricio Anton weave together the evidence of modern feline behavior with that of the fossil record. Turner's clear, insightful prose and Anton's mast[...]

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    från 235.00 kr
  8. Risky Sex?: Gay Men and HIV Prevention (Övrig)

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    Dwayne C. Turner

    ISBN: 9780231105750 - UTGIVEN: 1997-05-19

    In candid, in-depth interviews, gay men discuss their experiences in the age of AIDS, their attitudes toward sex, and their motives for engaging in behaviors that are widely considered to be dangerous health risks. Revealing that such factors as guilt for being HIV negative, alcohol and drug use, an[...]

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    från 264.00 kr
  9. Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna (Övrig)

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    Alan Turner, Mauricio Anton

    ISBN: 9780231119443 - UTGIVEN: 2004-09-08

    The Garden of Eden as the ideal and untouched site of life's creation persists in popular thought, even as we have uncovered a lengthy fossil record and developed a scientific understanding of evolution. The continent of Africa is a good candidate for Eden: its generally warm climate, rich vegetatio[...]

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    från 539.00 kr
  10. Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna (Övrig)

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    Alan Turner, Mauricio Anton

    ISBN: 9780231119450 - UTGIVEN: 2007-06-26

    The Garden of Eden as the ideal and untouched site of life's creation persists in popular thought, even as we have uncovered a lengthy fossil record and developed a scientific understanding of evolution. The continent of Africa is a good candidate for Eden: its generally warm climate, rich vegetatio[...]

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    från 290.00 kr
  11. Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism

    ISBN: 9780253205940 - UTGIVEN: 1990-08

    During the past twenty years of intellectual boundary-crossing and widespread borrowing between fields, Turner's notions of "liminality" and the "processual" have been adopted by many theorists of art and society. This is the first volume to place individual Turner concepts into the context of his e[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  12. Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans (Häftad)

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    Richard Turner

    ISBN: 9780253221209 - UTGIVEN: 200910

    In his new book, Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of the popular religious traditions, identities, and performance forms celebrated in the second lines of the jazz street parades of black New Orleans. The second line is the group of dancers who follow the first[...]

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    från 179.00 kr
  13. Economics After the Crisis (Inbunden)

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    Adair Turner

    ISBN: 9780262017442 - UTGIVEN: 201204

    The global economic crisis of 2008--2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took place[...]

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    från 86.00 kr
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    från 122.00 kr
  15. Vulnerability and Human Rights (Häftad)

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    Bryan S. Turner

    ISBN: 9780271029238 - UTGIVEN: 2006-08

    In the twentieth century, the mass violence of the two world wars followed more recently by the decentralization and privatization of warfare - manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing - have led to a heightened awareness of human being's vulnerability to suffe[...]

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    från 293.00 kr
  16. Barbarous Mexico (Häftad)

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    John Kenneth Turner

    ISBN: 9780292707375 - UTGIVEN: 1969-01

    An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.

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    från 350.00 kr
  17. Science in Medieval Islam (Häftad)

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    Howard Turner

    ISBN: 9780292781498 - UTGIVEN: 199706

    During the Golden Age of Islam (seventh through seventeenth centuries A.D.), Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. This book offers a fully illustrated, highly accessible introduction to [...]

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    från 211.00 kr
  18. The Promise of Wilderness (Inbunden)

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    James Morton Turner

    ISBN: 9780295991757 - UTGIVEN: 2012-07

    From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly 20 percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of the m[...]

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    från 339.00 kr
  19. Can Modern War Be Just? (Pocket)

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    James Turner Johnson

    ISBN: 9780300036268 - UTGIVEN: 1986-02

    Now that mankind has created the capability of destroying itself through nuclear technology, is it still possible to think in terms of a "just war"? Johnson argues that it is, and in the context of specific case studies he offers moral guidelines for addressing such major contemporary problems as te[...]

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    från 225.00 kr
  20. Morality & Contemporary Warfare (Pocket)

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    James Turner Johnson

    ISBN: 9780300091045 - UTGIVEN: 2001-10

    When is the use of military force by a nation morally justified? How can the tendency toward unrestrained warfare between parties with major cultural differences be controlled? In this timely book, James Turner Johnson refocuses the moral analysis of war on the real problems of contemporary armed co[...]

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    från 210.00 kr
  21. Eleanor of Aquitaine (Inbunden)

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    Ralph V. Turner

    ISBN: 9780300119114 - UTGIVEN: 2009-04

    Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne - Richard t[...]

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    från 239.00 kr
  22. Young Mr Turner

    ISBN: 9780300140651 - UTGIVEN: 2016-05

    A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner's early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A complex figure, and divisive during his lifetime, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) has long been considered Britain's greatest painter. An artis[...]

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    från 967.00 kr