Pastimes and Politics

Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics 9780385349185, 9780385349192

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the * Financial Times *the most influential commentator in the nation, the

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Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books 9781408835791

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Pastimes: From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Historiography 9780824860097

Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship

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National Pastimes: Cinema, Sports, and Nation 9781496215529, 1496215524

Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular spor

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Courtly Pastimes (Routledge Medieval Casebooks) 9781032307909, 9781000798883, 9781032307916, 9781003306672, 1032307900

The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth,

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Bonaventure des Périers's Novel Pastimes and Merry Tales [1 ed.] 9780813163697, 9780813153490

The Nouvelles Récréations et Joyeaux Devis of Bonaventure des Périers are here translated for the first time into modern

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Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics 978-0-385-34918-5, 0385349181, 9781299954472, 1299954472, 978-0-385-34917-8

America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo resear

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I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life and Pastimes [Hardcover ed.] 0268034923, 9780268034924

WithI Alone Have Escaped to Tell You, Ralph McInerny—distinguished scholar, mystery writer, editor, publisher, and famil

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England's Revelry: A History of Popular Sports and Pastimes, 1660-1830 (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) [Illustrated] 0197263216, 9780197263211

This study looks at the relationship between popular recreations and the spaces in which they took place, and in doing s

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Art and Politics / Politics and Art 9780815651185, 9780815609766

Probing, wide-ranging, brimming with passion and outrage, Melhem’s eighth collection of poems grips the reader with acco

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