ISBN: PB: 9781861892171,
Reaktion Books,
November 2004
192 pp.,
20x12 cm
Although boredom is something that we have all suffered from at some point in our lives, and has become one of the central preoccupations of our age, very few of us can explain precisely what it is. In this book Lars Svendsen examines the nature of b...
ISBN: PB: 9781841501123,
Intellect,
October 2004
250 pp.,
22.8x17.8 cm
Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live. Developing new analytical approaches toward ways of seeing is a key challenge facing those working across a wide range of disciplines. How can visuality be und...
ISBN: PB: 9781861891549,
Reaktion Books,
May 2004
224 pp.,
21.6x13.8 cm, 11 illus.
"Forever Young" offers a wide-ranging survey of the notion of longevity, from antiquity to the present. The author looks at the many manifestations of one of humanity's most powerful dreams: the prolongation of life and youth with immortality as a fi...
ISBN: PB: 9781850656517,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2004
360 pp.,
21.6x13.8 cm
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"In Pilgrims of Love", Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi order founded by a living saint, Zindapir, whose cult originated in Pakistan and has extended globally to Britain, Europe, the Middle East, and So...