mcgill queen's university press dez 2022 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gabor Csepregi presents a comprehensive study of the persistent human tendency to bring attitudes of play to even serious and mundane situations. He offers a phenomenological description of forms of playfulness, examines the skills that support them, and provides diverse examples.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a startingpoint for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the first comprehensive and critical assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work on culture, Dariusz Brzezi¿ski offers a comparative analysis of the theories of one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foregrounding the sociologist and philosopher's Polish period, Brzezi¿ski introduces Bauman to a new international audience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial features of this country's sporting events. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates contemporary Canadian patriotism by exploring how understandings of Canadian identity are shaped at the intersection of sport, nationalism, and commercialism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb. In Eating the Ocean, Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing encouraged consumers to increase their seafood consumption, and how this advertising endeavour contributed to the collapse of the nation's fisheries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, better people. Back to the Stone Age explores how ideas about race are tightly woven into the prehistoric imagination, revealing insights into present-day anxieties and showing that the human past is not set in stone.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves negotiated the New Poor Law and its measures, and how their interactions with the state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. Based on first-hand testimony - pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates - In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring lost work by Vasily Grossman alongside texts by luminaries such as Konstantin Simonov, Viktor Nekrasov, and Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalingrad Lives reveals, for the first time in English, the real Russian narrative of Stalingrad in the fall of 1942 - an epic story of death, martyrdom, resurrection, and utopian beginnings.