Search Results for: “Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard University, USA)”

For readers gripped by In Cold Blood and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, We Keep the Dead Close is both a haunting true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969...

In a tightly woven narrative, historian of modern India Amiya P. Sen traces the shifting self-understanding of Hindus in the light of the many challenges posed by the British colonial...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works of scholarship achieve what Stella Kramrisch accomplishes in The Presence of Śiva — a magisterial, all-encompassing...

The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw....

"The coolest class on campus" - The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many...

Author: Benjamin N. Colby, Lore M. ColbyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1981Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the life and practices of an Ixil diviner,...

In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection...

Author: John Donne; Janel M. MuellerBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPoet and churchman John Donne was born in London in 1572. He...

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In August, 2008, Facebook signed up its 100 millionth user. Eight months later its 200 millionth user signed up. Today it is closing in on 250 million users. This phenomenal...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter,...

The Fogg Art Museum's silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such celebrated artists as Paul...

Author: John FinleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discoloured DJ spine. Chipping and light...

Author: David H. FinnieBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight chips and blue marking on DJ. This historical...

Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and...

Author: John HemmingBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun faded spine, chips and tears to DJ.John Hemming's "Red...

Author: Thomas PikettyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 2020Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markings Piketty examines how different societies have historically justified inequalities. He analyzes the dynamics of wealth...