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Before Kukulkán : Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classi…
This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of Chichén Itzá. This period and area have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. "Before Kukulkán" is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary research at the Classic Maya capital of Yaxuná, located at a contentious cross…
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- 9780816541713
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- 300
A Guide to Diplomatic Practice
Recruited straight from university, Ernest Satow (1843–1929) became one of the most respected British diplomats, particularly in Japan, where he is still remembered. After a career spent mostly in the rapidly developing Far East, he retired in 1906. Just before the outbreak of war, he was asked to compile a work on international diplomacy, and 'Satow', as it has become known, was first publis…
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- 9780511995200
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- Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, General
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Fibula, Fabula, Fact
The chapters of Fibula, Fabula, Fact – The Viking Age in Finland are intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the important topic of the Viking Age in Finland. These chapters are oriented to provide introductions to the sources, methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines in a way that is accessible to specialists from other fields, specialists from outside Finland, and a…
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- Vol. 18.0
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- 9789522227645
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- 418 FIB f
Paninian Studies: Professor S. D. Joshi Felicitation Volume
Pa?ini’s grammar is the oldest surviving grammar of Sanskrit, dating back to the fifth century BCE. In its completeness of coverage of linguistic elements and its theoretical and analytical sophistication, Pa?ini’s grammar is surprisingly modern. It has long provided inspiration for many ideas in modern linguistics, and continues to attract scholars’ attention in the fields of Sanskrit an…
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- 9780472901692
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- 491.2 PAN p
The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times: Ethnographic Perspectives on…
The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What is novel is how s…
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- 9781760462000
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- 420 QUE q
Reluctant Representatives: Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia’s north
How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?’ So ‘Sarah’, a senior Aboriginal public servant, imagines a conversation with the Northern Territory Public Service. Her question suggests tensions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who have accepted the long-standing invitation to join the ranks of …
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- 9781760460327
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- 420 GAN r
A Guide to Modern Cookery
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed a revolution in the eating habits of European households with disposable incomes. Central to the culinary history of the period is the innovative French chef Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935). His cooking methods, combined with a modern approach to managing professional kitchen staff, contributed to the development of a fashionab…
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- 9781139626637
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- Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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The Pedagogics of Unlearning
What does it mean to unlearn? Once we have learned something, is it ever possible to unlearn that something? If something is said to have been unlearned, does that mean that it is simply forgotten or does some residual force of learning, some perverse force, also resonate in ways that might help us to rethink traditional approaches to teaching and learning? Might we say that education today is …
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- 9780692722343
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- 194 halaman
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- 370 DUN p
Constructing Virtue and Vice; Femininity and Laughter in Courtly Society (ca.…
The study examines textual representations of women’s laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ecclesiastical texts, conduct literature, lyric, and sculpture
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- 5
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- 9783737001199
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- 179.9 TRO c
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway; Same but Dif…
This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens.
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- 1000528405, 9781000528404
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- 155.33 KUN c
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