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Haphazard Families

Walker, Eric C
Haphazard Families
Examines literary and historical adoptions and constructions of childhood in Romantic-era England to reveal their influence on later Western adoption systems.

CHF 52.50

The Translator's Daughter

Prasad, Grace Loh
The Translator's Daughter
A Taiwanese American writer unfurls themes of memory, dislocation, language, and loss to tell a unique story about reclaiming one's heritage while living in a diaspora.

CHF 34.90

Softly Undercover

Jonas, Hanae
Softly Undercover
From its opening insistence on "not love but procedure, " Hanae Jonas's Softly Undercover explores the possibilities and limitations of ritual and repetition, asking what it means to believe and see clearly. Formally rangy poems map out territories of devotion and divination, contrasting the realm of mystery, dreams, and symbols with the alienation of the mundane. Against a backdrop of intimate relationships, small towns, rural landscapes, and...

CHF 24.90

Drawing (In) the Feminine

Flinn, Margaret C
Drawing (In) the Feminine
Celebrates and examines the richness of contemporary women's production in French and Francophone comics art while questioning the notion that women have been absent from bande dessinée history.

CHF 47.90

Drawing (In) the Feminine

Flinn, Margaret C
Drawing (In) the Feminine
Celebrates and examines the richness of contemporary women's production in French and Francophone comics art while questioning the notion that women have been absent from bande dessinée history.

CHF 136.00

Comparing Post Soviet Legislatures: A Theory of Instituti...

Ostrow, Joel M.
Comparing Post Soviet Legislatures: A Theory of Institutional Design and Pol
One dilemma facing new or newly independent states, such as those of the former Soviet Union, is how to design effective legislatures when political parties are weak and fragmented or even nonexistent. In this book, Joel M. Ostrow develops a comparative institutional framework to explain marked differences in behavior across three post-Soviet legislatures: the Russian Supreme Soviet, the Russian State Duma, and the Estonian legislature. He arg...

CHF 127.00

Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media

Somerset, Fiona / Watson, Nicholas
Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media
In the medieval period, as in the media culture of the present, learned and popular forms of talk were intermingled everywhere. They were also highly mobile, circulating in speech, writing, and symbol, as performances as well as in material objects. The communication through and between different media we all negotiate in daily life did not develop from a previous separation of orality and writing, but from a communications network not unlike ...

CHF 25.90

Airline Executives Federal Regulation: Case Studies in Am...

Lewis, W. David
Airline Executives Federal Regulation: Case Studies in American Enterprise from
This book is a collection of eight case studies of relationships between airline executives and federal regulatory agencies from the passage of the Air Commerce Act in 1926 to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. By focusing on the lives and personalities of individual entrepreneurs, W. David Lewis and his contributors hope to explore the interaction between technology, government regulation, and entrepreneurship.Each essay in the book focuse...

CHF 119.00