Caste and Kinship in Central India

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impac...

Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farm...

Taking Sides Against Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia

De randen van Zevenhuizen

Mr Nice

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up...

Daar waar ik geboren ben

Bernard Kamphuis is geboren in 1936 op de boerderij "De Keseer". Als tweede zoon van Engelbert. Op de lagere school zeiden ze Keseers Bernard tegen hem. Engelberts tweelingbroer Albert had ook een jo...

Indianen

Het boek Indianen! (ISBN:9789056158569) geschreven door Serv Wiemers bestel je op bruna.nl! Ze zijn er nog. Op de centrale prairies van Noord-Amerika dragen indianenstammen vol trots hun traditionele...

Cultuurverandering: mythe of realiteit?

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Chasing Bocuse

In 2015 in Lyon, France, Team USA medaled for the first time ever at the Bocuse d'Or-often called the Olympics of the cooking world - taking silver. Two years later, Team USA won the competition and...

Fermentation as Metaphor

Los Angeles Times Best Cookbooks 2020 Saveur Magazine Favorite Cookbook to Gift Esquire Magazine Best Cookbooks of 2020 The book weaves in reflections on art, religion, culture...

Egyptian Oedipus

Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. But Kircher is most famous - or infamous - for his quixotic attempt to decipher the...

De slaap van de rede brengt monsters voort

Wat zijn de consequenties van Darwins evolutietheorie voor ons mensbeeld? Wat te denken van de biologische verschillen tussen mannen en vrouwen? Wat is het belang van onverschilligheid? Is de multicul...

Hipsters en tricksters

Weinig wetenschappelijke disciplines zijn zo onderhevig aan intellectuele modes als de cultuurtheorie. Structuralisme, pragmatisme, marxisme, cyberfeminisme, postmodernisme, de begrippen komen en gaan...

Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands

This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical...

Angstcultuur

Angstcultuur: het begrip duikt met regelmaat op in de media. En steevast rollen er koppen. Maar wanneer kun je eigenlijk met recht spreken van een angstcultuur in een organisatie? Angstcultuur is het...

Visions Of Politics 02 Renaissance Virtu

The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on the political thought of the...

Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde, Balije van Utrecht 6 - Bedreigd door Napoleon

Bedreigd door Napoleon

Reading Beyond the Book

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-...

Art And Its Publics

Bringing together essays by museum professionals and academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Art and its Publics tackles current issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the deb...

Wild geraas

Arnold-Jan Scheer, bekend van zijn legendarische tv successen als Showroom en Paradijsvogels, is al zijn hele leven gefascineerd door het fenomeen Sinterklaas. Natuurlijk als 'goed heiligman&apos...