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Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Father of Modern Anthropology

By: Patrick Wilcken

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Father of Modern Anthropology

By: Patrick Wilcken

When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial-era study of “exotic” tribes to one consumed with fundamental questions about the nature of humanity and civilization itself. Remarkably, there has never been a biography in English of the enigmatic Claude Lévi-Strauss. Drawing on a welter of original research and interviews with the anthropologist, Patrick Wilcken’s Claude Lévi-Strauss fills this void. In rich detail, Wilcken recreates Levi-Strauss’s peripatetic life: his groundbreaking fieldwork in some of the remotest reaches of the Amazon in the 1930s; his years as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France and an emigré in wartime New York; and his return to Paris in the late 1940s, where he clashed with Jean-Paul Sartre and fundamentally influenced fellow postwar thinkers from Jacques Lacan to Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. It was in France that structuralism, the school of thought he founded, first took hold, creating waves far beyond the field of anthropology. In his heyday, Levi-Strauss was both a hero to contemporary intellectuals, and an international celebrity. In Claude Levi-Strauss, Wilcken gives the reader a fascinating intellectual tour of the anthropologist’s landmark works: Tristes Tropiques, his most famous book, a literary meditation on his travels and fieldwork; The Savage Mind, which showed that “primitive” people are driven by the same intellectual curiosities as their Western counterparts, and finally his monumental four-volume Mythologiques, a study of the universal structures of native mythology in the Americas. In the years that Lévi-Strauss published these pioneering works, Wilcken observes, tribal societies seemed to hold the answers to the most profound questions about the human mind. Following the great anthropologist from São Paulo to the Brazilian interior, and from New York to Paris, Patrick Wilcken’s Claude Lévi-Strauss is both an evocative journey and an intellectual biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential minds.

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Penguin

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1101444223

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9781101444221

Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Poet in the Laboratory

By: Patrick Wilcken

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Poet in the Laboratory

By: Patrick Wilcken

The first comprehensive biography of 'the father of modern anthropology' 'An intellectual biography that briskly and brilliantly assesses the great, original, creative ideas and their origins in the context of Lévi-Strauss's life from the 1930s to the 1960s in Brazil, New York and Paris' The Times, Biographies of the Year 'Lays out the life with clarity, efficiency, readability and occasionally dissent ... A superbly thrilling life' Guardian Claude Lévi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Dislodging Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir from the pinnacle of French intellectual life in the 1950s, he brought about a sea change in Western thought and inspired a generation of thinkers and writers, including Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan with his structuralist theories. Lévi-Strauss's bohemian childhood and later studies of the emerging discipline of anthropology in the field and the university led him to mix with intellectuals, artists and poets from all over Europe. Tracing the evolution of his ideas through interviews with the man himself, research into his archives and conversations with contemporary anthropologists, Wilcken explores and explains Lévi-Strauss's theories, revealing an artiste manqué who infused his academic writing with an artistic and poetic sensibility.

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A&C Black

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1408827336

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9781408827338

Vascular Endothelium in Human Physiology and Pathophysiology

By: Patrick J Vallance,David J. Webb

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Vascular Endothelium in Human Physiology and Pathophysiology

By: Patrick J Vallance,David J. Webb

Endothelial dysfunction is now regarded as an early marker of vascular disease and therefore an important target for therapeutic intervention and discovery of novel treatments. Ideal for both basic and clinical scientists, whether in industry or academia, and physicians, Vascular Endothelium in Human Physiology and Pathophysiology provides an up-to-date review of the vascular functions of the endothelium and its role in key areas of cardiovascular disease. It focuses on evidence from studies in humans.

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CRC Press

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0203304950

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9780203304952

Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Poet in the Laboratory

By: Patrick Wilcken

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Poet in the Laboratory

By: Patrick Wilcken

Drawing on original research and interviews with the anthropologist, Wilcken recreates Lvi-Strauss's peripatetic life: his groundbreaking fieldwork in some of the remotest reaches of the Amazon in the 1930s; his years as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France and as an migre in wartime New York; and his return to Paris in the late 1940s.

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Bloomsbury Press

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0747583625

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Genetics and Genomics in Medicine

By: Tom Strachan,Judith Goodship,Patrick Chinnery

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Genetics and Genomics in Medicine

By: Tom Strachan,Judith Goodship,Patrick Chinnery

Genetics and Genomics in Medicine is a new textbook written for undergraduate students, graduate students, and medical researchers that explains the science behind the uses of genetics and genomics in medicine today. Rather than focusing narrowly on rare inherited and chromosomal disorders, it is a comprehensive and integrated account of how geneti

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Taylor & Francis

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1317594304

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9781317594307

Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night

By: Patrick Rivers,William Fulton

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Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night

By: Patrick Rivers,William Fulton

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated with producer Ski and a host of other contributors to create Uptown Saturday Night, featuring the seminal single “Luchini (a.k.a. This is It).” While other 1990s rappers referred to 1970s Blaxploitation culture, Camp Lo were self-described “time travelers” who weaved the slang and style of a soulful past into state-of-the-art lyrical flows. Uptown Saturday Night is a tapestry of 1970s black popular culture and 1990s New York City hip hop. This volume will detail how the album's fantastic world of “Coolie High” reflected classic films like Cooley High and the Sidney Poitier film from which the album's title is derived, and promoted vintage slang and fashion. The book features new interviews with Camp Lo, producer Ski, Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul, Ish from Digable Planets, and others, and offers musical and cultural analyses that detail the development of the album and its essential contributions to a post-soul aesthetic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501322702

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9781501322709

Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium High Voice

18 Classic Songs for Solo Voice and Piano for Worship, Recitals, Concerts and Contests

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

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Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium High Voice

18 Classic Songs for Solo Voice and Piano for Worship, Recitals, Concerts and Contests

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

This versatile collection contains 18 songs for solo voice and piano appropriate for recitals, concerts, contests and worship services. Includes songs by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Mozart and more!

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Alfred Music

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1457406837

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9781457406836

Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium Low Voice

18 Classic Songs for Solo Voice and Piano for Worship, Recitals, Concerts and Contests

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

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Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium Low Voice

18 Classic Songs for Solo Voice and Piano for Worship, Recitals, Concerts and Contests

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

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115

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Alfred Music

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1457406845

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9781457406843

The Complete Book of AMC Cars

American Motors Corporation 1954-1988

By: Patrick R. Foster,Tom Glatch

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The Complete Book of AMC Cars

American Motors Corporation 1954-1988

By: Patrick R. Foster,Tom Glatch

The Complete Book of AMC Cars is a thorough reference covering all of the production cars offered by American Motors Corporation from its founding in 1954 to its demise in 1988.

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Motorbooks International

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076038701X

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9780760387016

Haiti

The Breached Citadel

By: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

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Haiti

The Breached Citadel

By: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

The updated edition of this perceptive study could hardly appear at a more auspicious moment, as the latest phase of the tragedy of Haiti is unfolding. It brilliantly illuminates the rich tapestry of Haitian culture and reveals the remarkable resilience of the Haitian people, subjected to centuries of rapacity and violence and brutally punished for revealing the limited definition of freedom adopted by the French and American revolutions, in the author's accurate words. As he relates, they have continued to teach such lessons to this day, frightening the rich and powerful in their own tortured land and at the centers of global rule. It is our great loss if we choose not to understand, and there is no better starting point than this learned and penetrating inquiry." — Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT

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Canadian Scholars’ Press

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1551302683

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9781551302683

Singer's Library of Song

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

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Singer's Library of Song

By: Patrick M. Liebergen

Singer's Library of Song features 37 of the world's best-loved songs from the Medieval era though the 20th Century, presented with historical information and performance suggestions that are designed to enhance and educate developing vocalists. Art Songs, Arias, Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Lieder -- they're all here, and they're all beautifully laid out in this comprehensive 200-page anthology for vocal study. English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and Hebrew texts are included, and accurate translations and IPA pronunciation guides pave the way for serious singers. Available in low, medium, and high editions, Singer's Library of Song is a must-have for every voice teacher and student.

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Alfred Music

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1457421720

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9781457421723

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

By: Emma Ciafaloni,Patrick Chinnery,Robert Griggs

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Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

By: Emma Ciafaloni,Patrick Chinnery,Robert Griggs

This new edition of Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies is written for the clinician who sees patients with muscle disease, or the patient with complaints of pain or weakness of muscle. Like the original, this new edition is divided in to 3 primary sections: Approach to the Patient with Muscle Disease, Specific Myopathies, and General Strategies of Clinical Management, each section providing practical guidance to eliciting key histories and demonstrate findings upon examination. This new edition also provides guidance on the next steps in diagnoses as well as the latest information on pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, in an integrated manner, so as to give trainees, practicing clinicians and others who see neuromuscular disease perspective on how to evaluate and care for patients. New and revised tables, figures, and references are selected and organized to present information of clinical importance to provide the most up-to-date resource on the myopathies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199330409

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9780199330409

Empire Adrift

By: Patrick Wilcken

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Empire Adrift

By: Patrick Wilcken

In 1807, the Portuguese prince regent Dom João made an extraordinary decision. Although horrified by the idea of sea travel, Napoleon's troops were closing in on Lisbon so he opted to transplant his entire court and government to Portugal's largest colony, Brazil. 10,000 aristocrats, ministers, priests and servants clambered aboard the rickety fleet. After a rough passage they spilled off their ships bedraggled and lice-ridden to the astonishment of their new-world subjects. Thus began a thirteen-year period of imperial rule from a 'tropical Versailles' set against the city's jungle-clad mountains. But this only partially obscured the brutal workings of what was then the largest slaving port in the Americas. While the court grappled with the dark side of its own empire, Brazil was coming of age. Patrick Wilcken brings this remarkable period to the life, blending vivid contemporary testament with a rich evocation of a time in history when European royalty went native.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0747568693

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9780747568698

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Vascular Endothelium in Human Physiology and Pathophysiology

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Genetics and Genomics in Medicine

Genetics and Genomics in Medicine

Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night

Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night

Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium High Voice

Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium High Voice

Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium Low Voice

Favorite Sacred Classics for Solo Singers - Medium Low Voice

The Complete Book of AMC Cars

The Complete Book of AMC Cars

Haiti

Haiti

Singer's Library of Song

Singer's Library of Song

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

Empire Adrift

Empire Adrift

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