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  • IN THE REALM OF GODS AND KINGS
    TOPSFIELD, ANDREW
    Each work is fully illustrated and most of these works have not been previously published. The book also includes short background essays describing aspects of Indian life related to the works. This volume celebrates the wealth and diversity of the arts of India created for the life of courts and temples from 1000 BC to the twentieth century. Paintings, objects and photographs,...
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    55,30 €

  • ARCHITECTURE FOR THE POOR
    FATHY, HASSAN
    This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers ...
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    42,75 €

  • YORUBA GURUS
    FALOLA, TOYIN
    YORUBA GURUS ...
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    28,85 €

  • AUSTRALIA. A CULTURAL HISTORY
    RICKARD, JOHN
    John Rickard’s Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his ‘First XI: The best Australian history books’.Although arran...
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    46,50 €

  • A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) si...
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    16,50 €

  • ARUNACHAL
    VAN HAM, PETER
    The state of Arunachal Pradesh, moulded out of the mountainous margins of Assam, is incomparable to any other place in the world due to its ethnic variety and exuberant natural beauty. In many parts its as yet untouched rainforest shelters 110 different peoples or tribes and their mainly animist cultures influenced at the country’s fringes by Buddhism, both from Tibet and Burma...
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    70,00 €

  • IMAGINING EVIL
    TER HAAR, GERRIE (ED.)
    IMAGINING EVIL ...
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    31,35 €

  • ENDANGERED BODIES
    FALOLA, TOYIN / HEATON, MATTHEW M.(ED.)
    ENDANGERED BODIES ...
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    31,35 €

  • SCHOOLING ISLAM
    HEFNER, ROBERT W. / QASIM ZAMAN, MUHAMMAD
    SCHOOLING ISLAM ...
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    16,50 €8,25 €

  • SCATTERED JOY
    PUERTAS SEEGERS, ALEXANDRA
    SCATTERED JOY ...
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    65,00 €

  • ATLAS OF LOST CITIES, THE
    ROSEN, BRENDA
    ATLAS OF LOST CITIES, THE ...
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    31,35 €

  • HEMSHIN, THE
    SIMONIAN, HOVANN H. (ED.)
    HEMSHIN, THE ...
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    107,25 €