Humanidades

Humanidades (859659)

  • Capsule
    John Kenneth Press
    Join John and Adam as they wander the mean streets of Japan on a psychedelic fueled search for identity. While fun for the average reader, this book could also serve as a philosphy textbook because of its ordered exploration of sources of identity. Ultimately this trip through nationalist attacks, sex, and drugs, will take you to a better understanding of yourself and your pl...
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    11,51 €

  • The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt
    Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 7This, the seventh volume in the series, brings together papers from the sixth CHAT Conference (2008), held at UCL on the theme of 'Heritage'. ...
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    71,35 €

  • The Churches and Democracy in Brazil
    Rudolf von Sinner
    Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church contrasted with a steadily growing number of evangelicals, mostly aligned with the military regime but attractive precisely to the poo...
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    44,64 €

  • Chico Xavier
    Chico Xavier / João Marcos Weguelin
    Chico Xavier – A aurora de uma vida entre o céu e a TerraDiversos (espíritos) Francisco Cândido Xavier (autor) João Marcos Weguelin (organizador)As mensagens aqui apresentadas foram psicografadas por Chico Xavier e publicadas no jornal espírita Aurora, dirigido por Inácio Bittencourt, entre julho de 1928 e abril de 1933. Nesses primeiros anos, Chico era ainda muito jovem, não s...
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  • Navigated Spaces, Connected Places
    Edited by Dionisius A. Agius, John P. Cooper, Athena Trakadas and Chiara ZazzaroProceedings of Red Sea Project V  held at the University of Exeter, 16–19 September 2010British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs No. 12  ...
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    133,58 €

  • Pursuit of Unity
    Michael Perman
    In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South’s political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis--nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and disfranchisement. For most of the twentieth century, the region was dominated by a one-party system, the 'Solid South,' that ensured both po...
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    47,39 €

  • Symbolism in the Representation of Royal Children during the New Kingdom
    Georgia Xekalaki
    The subject of this work is the way that symbolism operates in official representations of the pharaohs' sons and daughters, during the historical period widely known as the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC). The use of symbols in different expressions of Egyptian culture has been widely mentioned, and has been discussed from many different angles. Scholars have also analysed the ...
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    181,95 €

  • From Illahun to Djeme
    A collection of papers in honour of Eyptologist Ulrich Luft.                                       ...
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    184,75 €

  • Arqueología de la Puna Argentina
    South American Archaeology Series No 16                                             ...
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    96,11 €

  • Archaeology and Biogeography of Prehistoric Freshwater Mussel Shell in Mississippi
    Cliff Jenkins / Evan Peacock / Paul F. Jacobs / Paul FJacobs
    Edited by Evan Peacock, Cliff Jenkins, Paul F. Jacobs, and Joseph GreenleafThe southeastern United States is home to the richest, most diverse freshwater mussel faunas on the planet, and Mississippi is no exception in this regard. Until fairly recent times, however, only qualitative lists of taxa were available and/or sampling was unsystematic and spotty. More recent work has t...
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    124,31 €

  • Cuando el paisaje se convierte en territorio
    Andrea Moreno Martín
    Normally, in Archaeology, material culture tends to be the main object of study for past societies, especially those who have no written language. In this study the author also assumes that in addition to objects, landscape and spatial patterns are also part of the archaeological record to be analyzed. Today we know that the Iron Age Iberian territories are regional political e...
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    163,27 €

  • Holy Dissent
    Glenn Dynner
    BThe religious communities of early modern Eastern Europe—particularly those with a mystical bent—are typically studied in isolation. Yet the heavy Slavic imprint on Jewish popular mysticism and pervasive Judaizing tendencies among Christian dissenters call into question the presumed binary quality of Jewish-Christian interactions. In Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics ...
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    62,96 €

  • Patterns of Burning over Archaeological Sites and Landscapes
    Alistair Marshall
    This programme of five geophysical analyses arose from specific problems encountered during survey and excavation of mid-later Iron Age settlement enclosures by the author in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds (UK). At these sites there was a need to supplement detailed magnetic mapping from gradiometry with higher quality data on magnetic susceptibility (MS), in order to establish ...
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    87,27 €

  • La escuela de pintura de Sición y su fortuna crítica
    Jorge Tomás García
    The painters of Sicyon were rulers of a τέχνη in their artistic creation that allowed them to combine their natural talent for painting with a scientific method. The main objective of this book is to place Sicyon at the centre of an aesthetic conflict between Plato and Aristotle. The Sicyonian school of painting has always been identified as one of the main enemies of Plato for...
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    103,16 €

  • Iron Age and Middle Saxon Settlements at West Fen Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire
    Andrew Mudd / Michael Webster
    Northamptonshire Archaeology Monograph 2A programme of archaeological excavation was undertaken by Northamptonshire Archaeology in 1999-2000 on land to the north of West Fen Road, Ely, in response to conditions upon planning permission for housing development. The excavation, conducted in several stages, examined substantial parts of later Iron Age and Middle Saxon settlements....
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    81,93 €

  • In Memoriam
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    160,48 €

  • Variación Geográfica en la Morfología del Esqueleto Postcraneal de las Poblaciones Humanas de Pampa y Patagonia durante el Holoceno Tardío
    Marien Béguelin
    South American Archaeology Series No 12This book assesses the patterns of morphological variation in Late Holocene human populations of Pampa and Continental Patagonia in southern South America, using postcranial skeletons to discuss the evolutionary processes that shaped those patterns. It represents the first regionally and temporally delimited survey of postcranial variation...
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    55,30 €

  • Kingdom Principles
    Paul Clayton Gibbs
    Is adhering to a list of rules really what God wants from us?“What must I do? What can I get away with?”Can misunderstanding what is in God’s heart cause you to be less than you can be? In Kingdom Principles, author Paul Clayton Gibbs encourages you to fight for the heart of your King and presents six ways to reshape your values in order to gain the mind of Christ.After all, we...
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    11,76 €

  • The Hulks of Forton Lake Gosport
    Julie Satchell / Mark Beattie-Edwards
    Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) Monograph Series No. 3This monograph is the result of four years' work investigating the archaeology of Forton Lake in Gosport, Hampshire, England. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the Forton Lake Archaeology Project and to the location of the lake. Chapter 2 details the archaeology and history of the area around Forton Lake. Chapter ...
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    61,35 €

  • The Roman Empire and Beyond
    In 2006 and 2007, the editors of this volume organized sessions at the annual meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists (Cracow, Poland and Zadar, Croatia) entitled "The Roman Empire and Beyond" in response to the increasing amount of archaeological work being conducted in Central and Eastern Europe, areas where the Roman Empire met Barbaricum. The sessions concern...
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    95,30 €

  • Kulubnarti I
    William Y. Adams / William YAdams
    Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Publication Number 18In 1998 and 1999 volumes II and III of the reports on the University of Kentucky excavations at Kulubnarti were published by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society as numbers 2 and 4 in its monograph series. Kulubnarti III was also available through British Archaeological Reports in its International Series no. 814....
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    104,23 €

  • Winding Dali’s Clock
    Christopher Thomas Green
    Archaeology is fundamentally concerned with both space and time: dates, chronologies, stratigraphy, plans and maps are all routinely used by archaeologists in their work. To aid in their analysis of this material, the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by archaeologists has become widespread. However, GIS are conventionally ignorant of time. Thus, if archaeologists are...
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    87,27 €

  • identity Who Are You?
    Jr. Russell D. Blackman
    Identity is to know that you are in the will of God. There is a place in God that will cause you and I to cry Holy, Holy, Holy, if we just press into the realm of our true identity. Learn your true identity! In this insightful book, Russell D. Blackman, Jr. gives you a clear path to learning who you are, and the power you possess by knowing it. This book will change the way you...
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    8,73 €

  • Jebel Bishri in Focus
    Kenneth Lönnqvist / Markus Törmä / Minna Lönnqvist
    Written by Minna Lönnqvist, Markus Törmä, Kenneth Lönnqvist and Milton NuñezThis book presents the work of the Finnish project SYGIS on Jebel Bishri, a mountainous region in Central Syria. The main focus of this archaeological project was to unambiguously locate discovered sites on the Earth's surface in order to provide a starting point for the recording and creation of da...
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    216,88 €

  • Terms of Inclusion
    Paulina L. Alberto / Paulina LAlberto
    In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusin...
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    57,15 €

  • The Funerary Landscape at Knossos
    Madelaine Miller
    During the last century's archaeological investigations of the advanced Bronze Age culture maintained by the so-called Minoans on the island of Crete, a number of tombs dated to the Late Minoan period and containing weapons have been discovered in the surroundings of the site of Knossos. The tombs are not confined to a certain area or cemetery, but are rather dispersed arou...
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    66,27 €

  • La Antigüedad Tardía en el Alto Valle del Duero
    Eusebio Dohijo
    Archaeological  Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (400-1000 A.D.) (SERIES ASLAEME), Monographs IIIThe series Archaeological Studies on Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe (A.D. 400-1000) (ASLAEME Series) covers the chronological and spatial span from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, themes that have seen an extraordinary flourishing of publication...
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    241,48 €

  • Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology
    This volume of papers is offered to Martin Welch on the occasion of his retirement from UCL in 2010. It is a celebration of his long career of teaching and research in early medieval archaeology, particularly Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours in the fifth to seventh centuries. ...
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    103,42 €

  • Archaeological Ceramics
    Simona Scarcella
    This publication originated during a session organized for the 15th European Archaeologist Conference, held in Riva del Garda (Trento - Italy) in September 2009, on the 'The chaîne opératoire approach to ceramics studies'. It was focused on the concept of the chaîne opératoire as applied in contemporary ceramics studies. Particular attention was given to experimental an...
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    92,92 €

  • Lynching and Spectacle
    Amy Louise Wood
    Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a...
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    47,56 €