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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Intellectual life"
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Ancient knowledge networks :a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in fi…
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Robson, Eleanor

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it. Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first mill…

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9781787355941
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xxiii, 303 p. ill;
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935 ANC E
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The responsibility of intellectuals :reflections by Noam Chomsky and others a…
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Allott, NicholasKnight, ChrisSmith, Neil

With the publication of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, brings with it the responsibility to tell the truth and expose lies, but our intellectual culture only pays lip-service to this ideal. The essay has been described as ‘the single most influential p…

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9781787355514
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x, 138 p. ill;
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973.91 RES N
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The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
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Norberg, Jakob

In the first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history's two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity. Convinced of the political relevance of their folk tale collections and grammatical studies, the Brothers Grimm argued that they cou…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781009063890
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viii, 268 p
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943.070922 BRO J
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The Florida room
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Vazquez, Alexandra

Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to explore the city’s sonic cultures and its material and social realities.

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ISBN/ISSN
9781478092704
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xiii, 259p.; ill.
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780.9759381 FLO v