Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor” : Contemplating the Art of Existence 9780295806648, 9780295998244

Contemplating Historical Consciousness: Notes from the Field 9781785339301

The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the

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Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua New Guinea 9780824864385

This book, based on fieldwork spanning a decade, gives a comprehensive analysis of the musical life of a unique Polynesi

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Sex and Existence: Simon De Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' 081955295X

Eva Lundgren-Gothlin's Sex and Existence helps us to understand Beauvoir's intellectual and political achievem

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The Political Space of Art: The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial 1783485698, 9781783485697

This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working w

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The Art of Freedom: On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence 0745694926, 9780745694924

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedu

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Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea: Selections from “Songs of Cifar, 1967–1977” 9780231890977

Prints a selection of translations of the poems from Song of Cifar and the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra from Nicara

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The Second Birth: On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence 9780226038056, 9780226185156, 2015010509, 022603805X

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schaber

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Life on the ground floor: letters from the edge of emergency medicine 9780385665971, 9780385674034, 0385665970

A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive.In this deeply

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Notes from a Factory Floor 2059800401, 9781912666720

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The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up 9781501394317, 9781501394300, 9781501394348, 9781501394331

Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop dance in the world today, with an estimated one million particip

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