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This Ain't the Summer of Love - Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk - Bog af Steve Waksman - Paperback

Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed both genres in terms of sound, image, and discourse. This book traces this connection back to the early 1970s, when metal first asserted its identity and punk arose independently.

DKK 310.95

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Heavy Metal Islam - Bog af Mark LeVine - Hardback

\Quicker than you can whistle 'Rock the Casbah, ' [Mark LeVine is] on the trail of Western-influenced underground music movements that have blossomed under authoritarian regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. Heavy Metal Islam offers the hit-and-run pleasures of a lively road trip. Practicing a first-person brand of shuttle diplomacy as he moves between countries and cultures, musicians and Islamic activists, LeVine manages to unpack enough cross-cultural incongruities to mount his own..

DKK 1084.95

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Heavy Metal Islam - Bog af Mark LeVine - Paperback

\Quicker than you can whistle 'Rock the Casbah, ' [Mark LeVine is] on the trail of Western-influenced underground music movements that have blossomed under authoritarian regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. Heavy Metal Islam offers the hit-and-run pleasures of a lively road trip. Practicing a first-person brand of shuttle diplomacy as he moves between countries and cultures, musicians and Islamic activists, LeVine manages to unpack enough cross-cultural incongruities to mount his own..

DKK 258.95

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Bandage, Sort, and Hustle - Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering - Bog af Josh Seim - Paperback

DKK 248.95

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Bandage, Sort, and Hustle - Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering - Bog af Josh Seim - Hardback

DKK 1083.95

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The Middling Sort - Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 - Bog af Margaret R. Hunt - Hardback

To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age.

DKK 549.95

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Mining North America - An Environmental History since 1522 - Bog - Hardback

From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tiles, minerals and mining have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. This book examines these developments.

DKK 736.95

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Hard Rock Epic - Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910 - Bog af Mark Wyman - Paperback

An account of the Western metal miners that includes details of their bitter struggle for unpaid wages, for industrial safety legislation, for corporate liability in the event of mine accidents and for workmen's compensation. It looks at miners in the larger context of American industrialization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

DKK 507.95

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We'll Play till We Die - Bog af Mark LeVine - Hardback

\Through critical, collaborative, and engaged scholarship, Mark LeVine shows the central role played by music in struggles for social change in the modern Muslim world. Carefully researched and eloquently written discussions of heavy metal and hip hop in Palestine and Pakistan, in Iran, Egypt, and Indonesia, and from the Maghreb to the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon show how history can happen in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. We'll Play till We Die reveals how a radical and sometimes..

DKK 248.95

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Coming to Terms with the Nation - Ethnic Classification in Modern China - Bog af Thomas Mullaney - Paperback

China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. This book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie).

DKK 279.95

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Al-Haq - A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization - Bog af Lynn Welchman - Paperback

\This book is a godsend. More than that, it's a perfect example of precisely the kind of research that is most needed now, at a moment when human rights have never been more delegitimized on the international stage and abuses more rampant across the Middle East and North Africa.\--Mark LeVine, author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam \Clear, concise, accessible, and detailed, this unique book sheds extensive light on how and why al-Haq developed as..

DKK 427.95

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October Cities - The Redevelopment of Urban Literature - Bog af Carlo Rotella - Paperback

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. Chicago was becoming 'an October sort of city even in the spring'. Narratives of decline became building blocks of the postindustrial urban literature. This book examines these narratives as they played out in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Manhattan.

DKK 462.95

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The Starting Gate - Birth Weight and Life Chances - Bog af Dalton Conley - Paperback

Because low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education, young maternal age, and low income, the question of causes and consequences - of precisely how biological and social factors figure into this equation - becomes especially tricky to sort out. This title answers this question.

DKK 310.95

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Agent-Centered Morality - An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism - Bog af George W. Harris - Hardback

What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? This title argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: we wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, and members of our communities.

DKK 1062.95

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Coming to Terms with the Nation - Ethnic Classification in Modern China Volume 18 - Bog af Thomas Mullaney - Hardback

China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on recently declassified material and extensive..

DKK 1227.95

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Sentience - Bog af Wallace I. Matson - Paperback

\Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine,\ Gilbert Ryle has said. \He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.\ Wallace Matson has made the venture. Even though he finds no valid objection to the conception of mind as nothing over and above functioning of the nervous system, he argues that nevertheless no existing or imagined machine models..

DKK 352.95

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Sentience - Bog af Wallace I. Matson - Hardback