The Last Kiss, Grant Bruce

Автор: Various, Morrison Grant
Название: Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
ISBN: 1401233821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781401233822
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 10720.00 T
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Описание: A time-spanning graphic novel featuring Bruce Wayne`s return to Gotham City to take back the mantle of Batman, written by award-winning writer Morrison and illustrated by a stable of today`s hottest artists including Chris Sprouse, Frazer Irving, and Yannick Paquette.

Автор: Grant, Bruce
Название: The Captive and the gift
ISBN: 0801475414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801475412
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 29730.00 T
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The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.

In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film.

Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders. Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence.

The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.

Автор: Grant Bruce
Название: Crossing the Arafura Sea
ISBN: 0992551447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992551445
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 26380.00 T
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Описание: He is an Australian businessman with a secret hope that Australia as a nation will count for something important in its region and the world. She is the daughter of an Indonesian mystic whose secret hope is that she will become the country's president. Each year she spends a night with her father in the graves of their ancestors. "Otherwise," she laughs, "I'm just a regular Sydney girl," or, as she sometimes says, "a ratbag feminist". She is against abortion and wants marriage and children. He believes that free love, like free markets, will find its own way. As a compromise, they marry in a secular ceremony in Prague and become crusaders for a liberal, democratic new world order. But Indonesian and Australian politics - and the Goddess of the Arafura Sea - conspire against them. Author Biography: Australian writer-diplomat Bruce Grant has written ten works of non-fiction, three novels, essays and short stories published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Playboy, Cleo, The Bulletin, Quadrant, Overland and Meanjin. His first book, Indonesia, became a classic. Crossing the Arafura Sea is one of three novels on the theme "Love in the Asian Century". He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Australian High Commissioner in New Delhi, foundation chairman of the Australia-Indonesia Institute, chairman of the Australian Dance Theatre, chairman of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, president of Melbourne's International Film Festival and president of Melbourne's International Arts Festival. His essay "The Great Pretender at the Bar of Justice", written at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, was published in The Best Australian Essays 2002. "Bali: The Spirit of Here and Now", written after the October 2002 bombings, was published in The Best Australian Essays 2004. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by Monash University in December 2003 and distinguished Fellow by the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2010.

Автор: Grant Bruce
Название: A Young Woman from China
ISBN: 0992551404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992551407
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 22910.00 T
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Автор: Grant, Bruce
Название: Concise Encyclopedia Of The American Indian
ISBN: 0517693100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780517693100
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 6130.00 T
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