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  • - How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
    af Steven Cassedy
    274,95 - 397,95 kr.

    Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Americans underwent a dramatic transformation: having formerly lived as individuals or members of small communities, they now found themselves living in networks-physical, social, and political-which bound them together in ways never previously imagined.

  • - Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
    af Akos Rona-Tas & Alya Guseva
    585,95 kr.

  • - How Legal Speech Acts
    af Marianne Constable
    252,95 - 1.113,95 kr.

  • af Simon Evnine
    377,95 - 1.852,95 kr.

    This title offers a systematic and accessible introduction to the work of Donald Davidson. It begins by discussing Davidson's contribution to the philosophy of mind, including his views on action, events and causation, going on to examine Davidson's work in the philosophy of language.

  • af Kaja Silverman
    223,95 - 1.019,95 kr.

    Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and existence that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave.

  • - A Documentary History, 1700-1950
    af Sarah Abrevaya Stein & Julia Philips Cohen
    282,95 - 1.327,95 kr.

  • - Rethinking Power and Evil Today
    af Simona Forti
    317,95 - 1.430,95 kr.

    "The New Demons" combines an original investigation of twentieth century philosophical debates on evil and a critical engagement with the latest research on power and biopolitics in order to offer a unique vision of our contemporary human condition.

  • - History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
    af Larry Wolff
    282,95 - 1.327,95 kr.

    The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired complex meaning over the course of its historical existence (and even beyond) for the peoples- Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews- who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.

  • - Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs
    af Tamir Sorek
    296,95 - 1.305,95 kr.

    Considers how Israeli citizenship shapes the collective memory of Palestinians and investigates the dilemmas and strategies inherent in national commemoration.

  • - Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng
    af Philip J. Ivanhoe
    822,95 kr.

    This is the first collection of Zhang Xuecheng's essays and letters translated into English, offering a rare example of his work on ethical philosophy from the Qing dynasty.

  • - Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England
    af David R. Como
    897,95 kr.

    Blown by the Spirit traces the story of the Antinomians, the most important puritan radical group of the English civil war. Most historians have been skeptical about the existence of this group, or any group like it. This book provides proof of the existence of the Antinomians as well as the important role they played in the pre-history of the English civil-war.

  • - Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War
    af Richard Ivan Jobs
    282,95 - 507,95 kr.

    This history reveals youth, both as a concept and as a social group, to be a primary factor in France's postwar rejuvenation and cultural reconstruction in the wake of the Second World War.

  • - Distilling the Spirit of Mexico
    af Marie Sarita Gaytan
    231,95 - 1.028,95 kr.

  • - University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act
    af David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat & mfl.
    349,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    The increase in university patenting and licensing has often been attributed to the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which facilitated patenting and licensing. This work examines the channels within which commercialization has occurred throughout the 20th century and since the passage of the Act.

  • - Contemporary Feminist Debates
    af Anne Phillips & Michele Barrett
    297,95 - 1.462,95 kr.

    In the past "women" have been radically undermined, and newer concerns with "difference", "identity", and "power" have emerged. This text explores these developments in a set of specially commissioned essays by feminist theorists.

  • - Russia in Disarray
    af Abraham Ascher
    417,95 kr.

    The first of two volumes, this is the most comprehensive account of the Revolution of 1905-a decisive turning point in modern Russian history-to appear in any Western language in a generation.

  • - An Introduction to Moral Frameworks
    af Jonathan B. Wight
    360,95 - 1.509,95 kr.

    Ethics in Economics provides an introduction to the ethical systems that underpin economic debates. Jonathan B. Wight considers how outcomes, duties, and virtue work together in economic life to create wealth by addressing moral hazards and building trust.

  • - How Feelings Trump Facts in an Era of Colorblindness
    af Paula Ioanide
    252,95 - 1.119,95 kr.

    This book examines the role of emotion in contemporary instances of racial violence and discrimination.

  • - Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930
    af Di Wang
    322,95 - 1.126,95 kr.

    A study of the lively street culture in Chengdu from 1870 to 1930, this book explores the relationship between urban commoners and public space, the role of community and neighborhood in public life, and how the reform movement and Republican revolution transformed everyday life in this inland city.

  • - Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics
    af Itty Abraham
    309,95 - 1.114,95 kr.

  • - Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling
    af R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy
    233,95 - 1.117,95 kr.

    Examines why the Black middle class and poor students fail to reap the benefits of idyllic suburban schools.

  • - A Reading of 'Moby-Dick'
    af Eyal Peretz
    282,95 - 1.060,95 kr.

  • - Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
    af Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem & mfl.
    413,95 - 1.514,95 kr.

  • - Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience
    af Kathleen Tierney
    362,95 - 1.609,95 kr.

    Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself-that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.

  • - The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
    af Michael Miller
    384,95 - 1.430,95 kr.

    A deeply researched and revealing study of the Jews of Moravia throughout the nineteenth century.

  • - Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan
    af Ann Bowman Jannetta
    308,95 - 1.121,95 kr.

    The Vaccinators examines the way a new generation of physicians in Tokugawa Japan transmitted global knowledge of Jennerian vaccination-a new medical technology that prevented smallpox.

  • - Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950
    af Di Wang
    338,95 - 1.235,95 kr.

    This study examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth century.

  • - Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer
    af Bruce W. Holsinger
    362,95 - 1.533,95 kr.

    Ranging chronologically from the 12th to the 15th centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages.

  • af Jean-Francois Lyotard
    231,95 - 1.292,95 kr.

    This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century engages Augustine's Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training.

  • - Political Culture and the Causes of War
    af Stephen J. Morris
    337,95 - 1.235,95 kr.

    This is the first scholarly account of the causes of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978. Full of startling revelations from Soviet communist party archives, the study advances the concept of political culture to explain crucial foreign policy decisions.

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