From Cult to Culture: Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason
Jacob Taubes, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Amir Engel and Jan Assmann
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After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology,...
Interrogating the Social: A Critical Sociology for the 21st Century
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This book brings together a collection of work from emerging and established scholars who have put...
Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress
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What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but...
On Friendship
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Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even...
Sport and Technology: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective
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How do new technologies come to be used in sport? This book moves beyond the idea of functionality...
Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics
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Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees,...
The Fragrance of Fashion: Style and Perfume and Chanel to Madonna
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Smell: the most evocative of the senses. It can summon up emotions, memories, stories - even times...
The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
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Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and...
Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements: The Rugged, Dialectical Path from Knowledge to Action
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Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the...
A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
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This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and...