Saladin (Pocket)
avAnne-marie Eddé, Jane Marie (TRN) Todd, Anne-marie Eddé
ISBN: 9780674283978 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05Working simultaneously on two levels, 'Saladin' represents a different kind of biography - a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man.[...]
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World (Inbunden)
avClaude Levi-Strauss, Maurice (FRW) Olender, Jane Marie (TRN) Todd
ISBN: 9780674072909 - UTGIVEN: 2013-03Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Levi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close, this volume presents a synthesis of the autho[...]
The Other Face of the Moon (Inbunden)
avClaude Levi-Strauss, Junzo (FRW) Kawada, Jane Marie (TRN) Todd
ISBN: 9780674072923 - UTGIVEN: 2013-03Gathering for the first time all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japane[...]
Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (Inbunden)
avPierre Briant, Jane Marie (TRN) Todd, Pierre Briant
ISBN: 9780674493094 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01The last of Cyrus the Great s dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure. As Pierre Brian[...]
