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  • - Strategies for Advancing Children's Rights
    av Jo Becker
    305,-

  • - The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King
    av Audrey Truschke
    269,-

    This brief, accessible biography sheds new light on one of India's most controversial and misunderstood figures, arguing that the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was not a Hindu-hating fanatic but rather a premodern Indian king driven by a thirst for power, piety, and justice.

  • - New Models of Long-Term Investment Management
    av Ashby Monk, Rajiv Sharma & Duncan L. Sinclair
    389

  • - Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason
    av Jacob Taubes
    319

    The book is the English edition of a collection of essays by Jacob Taubes, one of the most creative and idiosyncratic philosophers of religion in Germany of the second half of the twentieth century.

  • - Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
    av Osagie K. Obasogie
    1 235

  • - From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition
    av Allen W. Johnson & Timothy K. Earle
    1 679

    For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case studies to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that extends their perspective to the problem of industrialization and globalization.

  • - Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
    av Pardis Mahdavi
    489,-

    Gridlock explores how migrant workers' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions-and global moral panic-about human trafficking.

  • - Children's Literature in Modern Korea
    av Dafna Zur
    879,-

  • - Benedict XVI and the End of Days
    av Giorgio Agamben
    249 - 585,-

    Taking Benedict XVI's abdication as his point of departure, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers some reflections on the unresolved dialectics of political theology and the continued relevance of eschatological thinking.

  • - Boredom and Modernity
    av Elizabeth S. Goodstein
    399,-

    Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity.

  • - From Aphorism to Novel
    av Gary Morson
    315,-

    In clear and witty writing, Morson offers first serious study of the many kinds of aphorisms, their relation to longer works, and the philosophical wisdom they offer.

  • - How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional Goals
    av Stephen A. MIles & Nathan Bennett
    295,-

    Your Career Game shows how game theory provides a novel and effective approach to understanding the factors that contribute to career success.

  • - A History of Jews in Modern Iraq
    av Orit Bashkin
    315,-

    This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation, Iraq, but a new ethnicity, Arabism-and its ultimate demise.

  • - The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
    av Andrea S. Goldman
    349

    Opera and the City analyzes court-city (and state-society) tensions surrounding gender, class, and ethnicity during the Qing dynasty through the prism of opera performance in the capital city of Beijing.

  • - Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations
    av Serhiy Bilenky
    895

    This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, as Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities.

  • - Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
    av Maki Fukuoka
    679

    The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth century Japan uncovers the social and epistemological roles of the term shashin within the scientific community before the term came to mean photography.

  • - Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield
    av Meir Finkel
    329,-

    On Flexibility presents a force planning concept that will enable armies to cope with the growing diversity of battlefield requirements, and especially with technological and doctrinal surprises, through applied adaptability and flexibility, minimizing the over dependence on intelligence and prediction involved in this process today.

  • - The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877
    av Ho-Dong Kim
    319,-

    The first comprehensive history of a major Muslim rebellion and the rise and fall of an independent Islamic state within China during the second half of the nineteenth century-in Xinjiang, where potentially separatist Islamic movements still worry the Chinese state.

  • - Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
    av Francois-David Sebbah
    449,-

    Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self.

  • - Humanitarianism in New Delhi
    av Erica Bornstein
    315 - 1 235

    This book looks closely at those who do humanitarian work in New Delhi to consider why people engage in humanitarian work and to urge a rethinking of giving and belonging in a global context.

  • - What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
    av Mick LaSalle
    385,-

    The Golden Age of women's films is happening right now-not here, but in France-and Mick LaSalle is your guide.

  • - Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank
    av Galit A. Sarfaty
    305 - 1 179

    This book explores the organizational culture of the largest international development organization-the World Bank-and addresses the question of why the Bank has not adopted a human rights policy or agenda.

  • - An Essay
    av Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
    269,-

    This book shows how, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the philosophy of science was increasingly confronted with historical questions and how it became historicized accordingly.

  • - How Entertainment Works on You
    av Peter G. Stromberg
    315,-

    Caught in Play reveals that though we engage stories, games, and images for fun, it does not follow that entertainment is trivial in its effect on our lives.

  • - or Tintin for Adults
    av Jean-Marie Apostolides
    335,99

    The Metamorphoses of Tintin, a pioneering book first published in French in 1984, offers a complete analysis of Herge's legendary hero.

  • - German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
    av Myra Ferree
    315,-

    Placing the transformations of German feminism in comparative perspective, this book illuminates differences in liberal and socialist frames for women's progress, and highlights the variety of ways global gender politics relates to race, class, and national struggles for justice and democracy.

  • - Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940
    av Mary Dewhurst Lewis
    1 575

    In this first comprehensive history of immigrant inequality in France, Mary D. Lewis chronicles the conflicts arising from mass immigration between the First and Second World Wars, the uneven rights arrangements that emerged during this time, and their legacy for contemporary France.

  • - Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy
    av Gi-Wook Shin
    335

    This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism from a sociohistorical perspective.

  • - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy
    av Ian James
    295

    This introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy gives an overview of his philosophical thought to date and situates it within the broader context of contemporary French and European thinking.

  • av James Siegel
    315,-

    Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell.

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