Levi: 325 books

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chioma rossa, incarnato candido e delicato, Miss Jerusalem, la ragazza più bella di Gerusalemme, è nata in una notte tersa, illuminata da una splendida luna, di cui ha preso il nome. Figlia di Gabriel Hermosa e di Rosa, si è sempre sentita diversa da tutte le altre: fi n da ragazzina voleva vivere...

A book of poetry about a small town, country girl growing up in the 1940's when times were simpler and the community came together to help one another, attend church together and celebrate at the fair.

A major work of contemporary Turkish literature, Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale tells the stories of three generations of a Jewish family from the 1920s to the 1980s. Istanbul is their only home, and yet they live in a state of alienation, isolating themselves from the world around them. As witness, observer,...

Summer is a wonderful time for DIY: you can work on your projects in the open air, while enjoying the sun, and you can create beautiful things to use not just indoors, but on the beach, in the garden, around a fire or in a park.If you want creative ideas for your home, your garden, your children,...

In the beginning, he was born into a harsh unforgiving world. Abandoned by his earthly father, he wandered through the graveyards of his life searching for truth and meaning. The walking dead, his faith was buried in a shallow grave never to be opened. But there came a stranger who reawakened in him...

BEHIND the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the shadows and the strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of the old temples, and on the blackened visage of the...

Being raised by a family of very strict religious beliefs, I was forced to live a childhood of imprisonment and boredom. I had to listen to a preacher every week ramble on about the war between God and Satan to wreak havoc on my soul. At the age of four I had my first encounter...

Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy....

The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan...

AAN DE REIZIGER Het streekvervoer in Drenthe is kortgezegd aldus: indien er al iets langskomt is het een collectebus. `Pessimisme kun je leren is het levensmotto van dichter-schrijver Lévi Weemoedt. Met zijn `Kleine Trilogie der Treurigheid (Geduldig lijden, Geen bloemen en Zand erover) brak...

De ziekte van Lodesteijn is een onovertroffen stukje humor, waarin het onderwijs genadeloos wordt gefileerd. Verwarde romanticus Lodesteijn trekt alles in twijfel dat onze samenleving efficiënt en modern zou maken. Lévi Weemoedt is de nieuwe Piet Paaltjens, met het cynisme van de jaren ’80. Deze...

The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals-kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a...