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Religion Explained
ISBN13: 9780465006960 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: Product DescriptionMany of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as “Why do people have religion?” Using findings from anthropology, cognitive...
The Humanistic Tradition, Volume 1: Prehistory to the Early Modern World
Product Description“The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
ISBN13: 9780307270788 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionOn a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming...
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
ISBN13: 9781576874974 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop imprint set for launch in Spring 2009, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS-One. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 600-plus-page...
Persian Letters
Product DescriptionPersian Letters (Lettres persanes, written 1721) is a satirical work by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France. In 1711 Usbek leaves his seraglio in Isfahan to undertake the long journey to France, accompanied...
The Rastafarians
ISBN13: 9780807010396 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence of the Rastafarians of Jamaica. “Barrett offers the most comprehensive study to date of the Rastafarians.”...
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Product DescriptionWhen Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely...
Bushido: The Spirit of the Samurai
Product DescriptionThere are eight virtues of Bushido, the code of the samurai: justice, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. These virtues comprise the essence of Japanese cultural beliefs, which are still present today. Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan’s most respected scholars,...
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Product DescriptionPolitics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women’s piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement...
