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  • - Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine
    av Lori Allen
    335 - 1 345

    Explores the dialectic of cynicism and hope and the role of human rights in the production of rule in the occupied Palestinian territories.

  • - What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why
    av Douglas E. Hough
    389

    This book draws on behavioral economics to explain anomalies that are intrinsic in the U.S. health care system. Rather than focusing on promoting or analyzing policy, author Douglas E. Hough hones in on our sometimes irrational actions, their roots, and what we can do to influence our behavior, nudging the health care system towards better practices.

  • - The Origin and Destiny of Community
    av Roberto Esposito
    295,-

    Roberto Esposito, a leading Italian philosopher, deconstructs the notion of community by examining its etymological roots in the Latin munus, or gift, and then reads against classical political interpretations of community.

  • av John Baldwin
    335

    This book makes use of vivid primary documents to provide a fascinating portrait of Paris in the year 1200: a key moment in its history, when the modern French capital was being born.

  • - Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City
    av Victor Bailey
    349

    What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull in the years 1837 to 1900 take their lives? This book attempts to answer this question and also to study how suicide was understood by victims, families, and friends; how the causes of suicide changed over time; and what coroners' inquests can tell us about Victorian life, beliefs, and values in general.

  • av Jacques Derrida
    319

    This volume presents three essays by the French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of "naming"

  • av Jan Assmann
    279

    Explores the notions of primary versus secondary religions, of 'counter-religions', and of book religions versus cultic religions. This title deals with the entry of ethics into religion's very core. It presents a lesson in the fluidity of cultural identity and beliefs.

  • - A Short History
    av Abraham Ascher
    295

    This is a concise history of the Revolution of 1905, a critical juncture in the history of Russia when several possible paths were opened up for the country. This book by a leading scholar in the field explores the event and its ramifications for the political future of Russia.

  • av John Bender & Michael Marrinan
    399

    This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.

  • - A Southeast Asia Perspective
    av Vedi Hadiz
    315

    This book provides an important statement on the underlying social dynamics of local politics in Indonesia following the end of the New Order in 1998. It represents the culmination of a substantial and influential body of work by Hadiz on the political economy of Indonesia's post-authoritarian transition.

  • - Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
    av Barry Hallen & J. Olubi Sodipo
    315,-

    This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.

  • av Jan Patocka
    335

    The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. This book presents his most mature ideas about the history of Western philosophy.

  • av Francis Ponge
    319

    In this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem that recounted its own process of coming into being along with the final result.

  • - Excerpts from Memory
    av Stanley Cavell
    555,-

    A fascinating work, at once philosophical and autobiographical, by one of the most original thinkers in the United States today.

  • - Towards a Value Functional Approach
    av Patrick Anderson
    1 179

    This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, ultimately arguing that the "value functional" approach to business assessment avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information set held by stakeholders in a business valuation.

  • - Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon
    av John Chalcraft
    295

    Uncovers the hidden history of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon, from independence to the present, to break new ground in Middle East Studies and challenge existing ways of thinking about migration.

  • - Representing Technology in the Edison Era
    av Lisa Gitelman
    349

    This is a study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the 19th century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality. At the book's heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language.

  • - Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000
    av Melissa L. Wender
    1 345

    This book traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of minority identity within Japan's Korean community through its examination of their literary narratives and political struggles over the past three decades.

  • av Jean-Luc Nancy
    375,-

    This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

  • - Developing Cultural Intelligence at Work
    av P. Christopher Earley, Soon Ang & Joo-Seng Tan
    305,-

    This book helps a manager understand and assess personal cultural intelligence and how to leverage this capability in diverse work environments.

  • - Behind Truth and Reconciliation
    av Pierre Hazan
    315 - 1 235

    In the aftermath of violence and war, justice for crimes committed may be the only possibility for restoring and healing communities. This book documents both the strengths and limitations of truth commissions and international criminal law in reconciling divided societies.

  • av Jasper Bernes
    399

    A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last 50 years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives.

  • - The Public Trial of Capitalism
    av Colleen P. Eren
    349

  • - Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq
    av Omar Dewachi
    305,-

  • av Khiara M. Bridges
    305,-

  • - Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action
    av David Obstfeld
    949

  • - Reading Proust Visually
    av Mieke Bal
    429

    The author challenges the view that literary texts cannot be examined by words alone, arguing that images also play a role in the interpretation process.

  • - The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society
    av Meira Weiss
    335 - 1 345

    This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body, constructing a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect.

  • - Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions
    av Julie A. Mertus
    315 - 1 525

    Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.

  • - Inventions of the Other, Volume I
    av Jacques Derrida
    335,99

    A twenty-eight essay collection that is published in two volumes. This work includes translations of seminal essays such as "Psyche: Invention of the Other," "The Retrait of Metaphor," "At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am," "Tours de Babel" and "Racism's Last Word"; as well as three essays that appear in English.

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